Services

Counselling and Psychotherapy

We are professionally qualified to provide our clients with Counselling and Psychotherapy to help address their mental health challenges and can offer both short term and long term treatment.

In Counselling mode we tend to focus more on your present situation and symptoms and ways in which you might break the cycle of negative thoughts and habits. In psychotherapy mode we seek to identify and address the root causes by looking at your past to help better understand the present.

What is Psychodynamic Psychotherapy?

As psychodynamic psychotherapists we believe that present day difficulties in our lives often have their roots in painful past experiences that have been repressed – pushed out - of the mind because they are uncomfortable to feel or think about. However, the repressed feelings of the past often make themselves felt as anxiety that we experience in the here and now.

To protect ourselves from feelings of anxiety we unconsciously employ defence mechanisms - psychological strategies aimed at defending against anxiety. Defences can serve us well for a time however in the long run some defences can cause us more problems than they solve. 

Our aim is to assist our clients in bringing the unconscious mind (including defences) into consciousness. In so doing, past experiences can be thought about and processed in a way that is conducive to sustained positive change.