About Therapy

There are many struggles and difficulties that may lead a person into therapy.  Life experiences, relationship patterns, and ways of thinking and responding to our current situations have a tendency to re-present themselves over the course of life. Uncertainty about how to cope or coping in ways that provide minimal long-term relief may keep the unhelpful pattern alive.  The issues that contribute to these patterns can all be explored in the therapy room. 

Psychotherapy helps you to gain a deeper understanding and clearer insight into your personal difficulties so that you can learn to identify ways to manage these difficulties, or even change certain aspects of your behaviour, yourself or your life. The process of therapy may provide you with a personal psychological knowledge, a knowledge of your internal world, both conscious and unconscious, its importance, and its level of influence, that you may be able to effectively use in your life. It may also offer a platform to find more helpful ways of coping, or can offer a process of healing, recovery and growth.

Approach

,​Everyone is different, and the therapies that may apply to one person, or one situation, will not apply to another. The kind of psychotherapy a person receives is adapted as necessary to fit the specific needs of each individual person. 

My approach integrates the differing schools of psychotherapy and psychodynamic thinking, as is rooted in evidence based research and theory.
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Treatment options may call for working in the short term on specific problem areas, or may require longer term therapy, often at multiple times a week, for deep rooted conflicts, trauma and psychological pain, exploring in depth feelings, thoughts, beliefs and relevant life events, and how they influence your self and life today. 
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