Specialist Areas
EMDR and Trauma
Shock or large T trauma involves a sudden threat that is perceived by the central nervous system as overwhelming and/or life threatening. It is a single episode traumatic event. Examples include car accidents, violence, surgery, natural disasters. EMDR is a proven and extremely successful treatment for single event trauma.
Sexual Problems
Sex is usually a private issue and it can be difficult to imagine talking to someone about sexual difficulties. I have trained with The College of Sexual and Relationship Therapy (COSRT). I also worked for 3 years at the Caldecot Clinic, Kings College Hospital for the NHS.
Compulsive Behaviour
When does compulsion to use drugs, alcohol, gamble, have sex, watch porn etc etc become wrong bad shameful terrible must stop... The answer is in fact entirely open to our own perception of the situation.
Anger
Anger is a very powerful driving human emotion. In it’s most healthy form it can be protective for others and ourself. It can motivate us to ‘change the world’ and fight unfairness and inequality.
Couples/Relationships
Old or young we can fall in love and settle down to spend time living together to build an intimate, loving relationship. Then one day we realize we've become confused about what we want from our relationship and where it's going.
Anxiety
Anxious worried stressed tense – all ways of describing a more or less state of fearfulness. Many psychologists consider OCD and Phobia also as part of the spectrum of ‘anxiety disorders’.
Therapy is good for you
A common view of therapy is that it is painful and difficult. Of course if we are in touch with our feelings these can be sad, angry, anxious etc, but we can also have a lighter touch while maintaining strong secure boundaries.
“The whole endeavor of therapy is fun and play rather than work – hopefully
motivated by curiosity rather than fear”. Ron Kurtz
Get past your past
The problem with PTSD is not in the past , that’s the past, but in the way it affects us now.
Working with me, can you accept that for the purposes of therapy every distressing feeling or thought represents a communication from a younger part looking for an adultier adult in the present?
Be yourself
Whenever I have been scared of something – especially public speaking and the like – someone always says “just be yourself!” Great advice but hard to follow
sometimes. Why is this?
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves – there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
Joan Didion
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