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Psychotherapist in Kent
Welcome
Depressed, anxious, don't understand why you feel or behave the way you do? I am a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and for over 18 years I have been helping people from across Kent, Medway and London with problems that affect mental and emotional well-being. For example issues ranging from anxiety and the effects of abuse to depression, stress and trauma. I work in the NHS as a Prinicpal Psychotherapist and Supervisor as well as having an established private practice in Rochester, Kent. I treat a broad range of mental health conditions.
Psychotherapy Service
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy provides a containing, professional, therapeutic relationship within which to explore and talk about your problems. Unconscious conflicts and motivations, often rooted in the past events and situations, can cause distress and internal conflict and need to be addressed to give insight into what's really wrong and relieve emotional and mental difficulties you may be experiencing. This means taking your feelings seriously. Working such insights through in therapy can promote change in the present and lead to a more conflict-free experience of living, for yourself and the people you are involved with. When you begin psychoanalytic psychotherapy you start a growth process, which reduces emotional suffering, can prevent disastrous behaviour, improves resistance to illness, makes life more meaningful and can console the person who is desperately unhappy.
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy is based on a psychoanalytic approach to treatment, but is less frequent, usually once a week, and does not make use of the couch.
Intercultural Therapy is a form of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy that takes into account your whole being , including your communal life experience in the world, both past and present. It addresses conscious and unconscious assumptions that cultural and racial differences involve, leading to a clearer understanding of what is actually happening and fostering a more grounded sense of personal identity. It can also address psychological, cultural, racial and personal problems that confront and distress refugees or immigrants feeling unsettled and lacking in confidence. Intercultural psychodynamic psychotherapy can help people from diverse backgrounds, presenting with a wide range of problems.
EMDR (Eye Movement Desentisation and Reprocessing) is an effective trauma therapy treatment. I am a fully trained EMDR practitioner. A disturbing memory/incident/event/anxiety is identified and treated by helping you to process 'frozen traumas' and clear anxieties, working towards relief of your symptoms.
United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)
As a UKCP registrant, I am bound by the UKCP code of ethics in my professional practice. This can be found on the UKCP website (www.ukcp.org.uk). I am a registered Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist.
Nafsiyat
I did my training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy at University College London in conjuction with Nafsiyat Intercultural Therapy Centre, London. Nafsiyat is a member organisation of the Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Section of UKCP. I am a Professional Member of Nafsiyat (www.nafsiyat.org.uk) and a member of its Training Committe.
EMDR Association United Kingdom and Ireland / EMDR Europe Association
I am a member of the EMDR Association UK and Ireland (www.emdrassociation.org.uk) as well as a member of the EMDR Europe Association.
The Royal Society of Medicine
I am a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, London.
Confidentiality
Psychotherapy treatment is confidential.
Languages
I speak both English and Spanish, and am able to offer therapy in both languages.
Supervision
If you are a trainee psychoanalytic psychotherapist or a registered psychoanalytic psychotherapist in clinical practice, I am an experienced and trained supervisor of psychoanalytic psychotherapists. Supervision can be arranged by contacting me by email or telephone.
Contact me
You can call me for a consultation using the number in the sidebar or email me using the form on my 'Contact Me' page. Any contact you make with me will be treated with the utmost confidence and sensitivity.