My approach to therapy places the emphasis on your personal experience.
Whatever you wish to discuss in therapy, whether it relates to a particular mental health problem, or certain aspects of your life, I will focus on your unique experience of those things.
Rather than attempting to fit you, and the problems you are facing, into generic theoretical models, I will work with you to develop psychological ways of understanding that are based exclusively on the content of our sessions.
In practice, this means our work will include four main therapeutic tasks.
I will ask you about the problems that you wish to discuss, and I will listen carefully and respectfully to your responses, trying as best I can to get a felt sense of how you, as an individual, experience those problems.
From the details you provide in your descriptions, I will work with you to develop more in-depth ways of understanding, created between us as part of a collaborative process, and consistent with psychological principles.
From these deeper ways of understanding, we will identify and discuss any possibilities that may exist for change, whilst carefully thinking through the potential impact on different aspects of your life.
Finally, I will support you to adopt an exploratory and incremental approach towards making any changes that you wish to make, whilst paying close attention to your experience of this.
Therapy will conclude with a review of our work together and a discussion of the implications for the future.