Psychotherapy
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy for adults in Whitstable and online.
I offer regular psychotherapy for adults. The work may be shorter-term, longer-term, or open-ended, depending on what brings you to therapy and what seems clinically appropriate.
What may bring someone to psychotherapy?
People often seek psychotherapy when something has become difficult to bear, understand, or manage alone. This may follow a crisis or loss, or it may come from a longer-standing sense of anxiety, sadness, confusion, dissatisfaction, or difficulty in relationships.Sometimes people come with a particular problem in mind.
At other times, there may be a less clear feeling that familiar patterns of thinking, feeling, or behaving are repeating themselves, despite efforts to change. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy offers a setting in which these experiences can be spoken about and thought about carefully.
Rather than approaching difficulties only as symptoms to be removed, the work gives us an opportunity to consider what they may mean, how they may have developed, and how they may be affecting your present life and relationships.
How Sessions work
Sessions are usually weekly and last 50 minutes. More frequent sessions may be considered where clinically appropriate.
The regularity of the sessions is an important part of the work. It provides a consistent setting in which thoughts, feelings, memories, dreams, and current difficulties can gradually be explored.
In-Person Therapy
I offer in-person psychotherapy from a private consulting room in Whitstable. Meeting regularly in the same setting can help create the conditions for speaking freely and thinking carefully about what is troubling you.
Online Psychotherapy
Online sessions may be possible where appropriate. This can be discussed during the initial consultation, including whether online work would provide a suitable setting for the kind of therapy being considered.
Initial Consultation
An initial consultation gives us an opportunity to think together about what has brought you to therapy, what may be needed, and whether working together feels appropriate.
Fees
Fees are discussed on enquiry or during the initial consultation.