Therapy means to "care for" or "attend to". For the therapist, therapy is the art of listening. For the individual, it is about being understood, made sense of, and integrating fragmented parts into a whole person. I strive to provide a warm, thoughtful and supportive space within which to help individuals understand themselves and their life experiences. My focus includes relationship and adjustment difficulties, trauma and loss, including grief work, as well as depression and anxiety.
I work with couples at all stages of the relational process – premarital, couples wanting to grow and deepen their relationship, adjusting to infertility or to the impact of children on the relationship, the empty-nest, separation and divorce, as well as coming to terms with painful loss of relationship. Two people make the decision to enter couples therapy when as a two-person entity they realise they need to introduce a third mind to assist them in thinking about their relationship. Couples therapy focuses on understanding the patterns of communication between partners, perceptions that partners have of each other, and the expectations that are held of the relationship in order to explore different ways to be together as a couple. The couple is invited to engage with curiosity about themselves as individuals and within the relationship. As the Clinical Psychologist I hold the therapy space for thinking together, for reflecting on what the couple are doing and holding the hope for the couple as I hold onto the belief that “As we are hurt in relationships, so we heal in relationships.” (W. Bion, British psychoanalyst).
Maternal Support: I work with expectant mothers, birth, adoption, empty nest and everything in-between. I offer a space of reflection on mothering and how it transforms, challenges, grows and impacts all of your relationships. Maternal mental health includes women who are experiencing infertility or coming to terms with miscarriage.
Parental Support: Parenting can be challenging. In this space, there is an opportunity to reflect on aspects of parenting that you may be finding challenging at present. As a Clinical Psychologist I am able to provide support and a space of reflection to parents that have children who present with mental health difficulties. This is a space where parents can digest and come to understand their child's mental health diagnosis in addition to offering support as to how you, as a parent, can best support your child's mental wellbeing.
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