I provide short-term therapy using the Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP), which aims at treating patients with psychoneurosis (environmentally acquired mental illness). Both treatments focus on unconscious mental processes (perceptions, past events, feelings about events, and distorted beliefs) as the cause of neurotic disorders. ISTDP, the experience of core emotion from the past is seen as the transformative vehicle and the therapist relies on non-interpretive techniques: encouragement to feel; a challenge to take responsibility to change; and confrontation of resistance to change. Suitability will be determined at a trial therapy session.

I also provide open-ended sessions with individuals, couples, and therapeutic based group therapy; this is dependent on the presenting needs of the clients and the applied therapeutic approach used. I work with individuals, couples, and groups at their own pace with an emphasis on clients taking charge of their own treatment. In open-ended work this allows you to have the time and space to gradually develop insight into the root cause of your concerns. Therapy continues as long as you want, which can range from months to years. Alternatively short term individual, couples, group counselling or brief psychotherapy is a good step for people who do not want to make a long commitment but have a particular issue to work with such as a relationship difficulty. It is often used by people who have had counselling or psychotherapy in the past and want to return to a particular issue. For more information regarding group therapy please click here to go back to the Group Therapy page.