My Services
Problems Addressed by Psychotherapy
In my private practice I provide individual and group psychotherapy, as well as supervision and consultation. I work within a contemporary psychodynamic therapy approach, drawing from the traditions of self-psychology, object relations, interpersonal psychoanalysis, as well as attachment theory, affect theory and counselling psychology.
Psychotherapy helps with a wide range of life difficulties, including:
Problems with emotion
- Depression
- Feeling easily flooded or overwhelmed by emotion
- Feeling detached, flat, empty
- Lacking spontaneity, passion, vitality
Problems with behaviour
- Anxiety, panic
- Obsessions and compulsions
- Eating disorders
- Addictive tendencies – substances, sex, computer addiction
- Self-destructiveness – recurrent pattern of unrewarding interaction, self-sabotaging behaviour, self-destructive relationships
Relationship Concerns
- Wish for deeper connections
- Alienation, loneliness, disconnectedness
- Fear of commitment, engulfment, feeling trapped
- Fear of separation
Trauma, abuse
- Dealing with the after effects of current or early life trauma, physical abuse, sexual abuse, family violence
- Alcoholism in the family of origin
- Anger problems in the family of origin
Problems with the self and identity
- Low self-esteem, poor self image
- Lacking sense of self
- Identity confusion
- Sexuality and gender
Life Cycle and Life Events
- Difficulty adjusting to life events, losses, changes, aging
- Loss, separation
- Entering young adulthood, parenthood, mid-life