I have a broadly psychodynamic approach, informed by attachment, relational, and existential concerns:
Psychodynamic – considers that past experiences unconsciously shape your adult behaviours and way of relating. By bringing your old patterns and inner logic into awareness, you can begin to navigate the present with greater clarity and loosen obsolete fears and defences.
Attachment – sees your relational style and emotional reactions as an outcome of how you were yourself responded to in early life. Noticing how these continue to influence your relationships today, you can learn to lessen their hold and foster more secure and fulfilling bonds.
Relational – focuses on the interaction between us as a chance to understand you better. I might share how you make me feel or the way we’re connecting, shedding light on how, for example, you disempower yourself, act performatively, or have unrealistic expectations of others.
Existential – faces the unavoidable facts of solitude, loss, responsibility, and the absence of inherent meaning. The aim is lucidity and gratitude – accepting suffering while recognising existence itself as an undeserved, astonishing gift.
Be assured that all the above is my concern, not yours. Your only concerns are yourself, your issues, your story, your feelings. In therapy, all expression is welcome: tears, humour, silence, swearing, stream of consciousness… whatever it is that comes up for you.