My Approach

Psychodynamic psychotherapy is an exploratory therapy. This means taking time in therapy to explore and reflect on your feelings and past experiences, to help make sense of the present. We all carry within us an internal landscape made up of people, places and experiences, which help shape who we are and how we relate to others.

Psychodynamic in Nature, outdoor therapy offers a way of exploring this interior world outdoors in nature, allowing the external landscape to reflect and illuminate our past and present relationships with self, other and place.

Psychodynamic therapy is concerned with;
• the influence of past experiences on our present lives
• the power of unconscious processes
• the recurrence or repetition of patterns in relationships
• defences or the strategies we use to try to survive
• the connection between mind and body

About Me

I am a UKCP Registered Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist with over 20 years’ experience gained in private practice, NHS Adult Mental Health services, sixth form college and university counselling, employee assistance and staff counselling. My experience also includes teaching counselling students, supervising therapists and working with groups.

During 2024 I am launching my Psychodynamic in Nature, outdoor therapy practice. This is a form of psychodynamic psychotherapy taking place in an outdoor setting (also known as Eco-psychotherapy or Nature-Allied therapy). See My Approach, below and, for further details, my dedicated website https://newleaftherapy.co.uk/

I work with

• Individuals
• Private healthcare referrals

Types of Therapies Offered

• Group Analytic Psychotherapist
• Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
• Psychodynamic Psychotherapist

What I can help with

• Abuse
• Age-related Issues
• Anorexia
• Anxiety
• Bereavement
• Bulimia
• Bullying
• Depression
• Eating Disorders
• Employment Difficulties
• Gender
• Identity Problems
• Infertility
• Mental Health Issues
• Obsessions
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Phobias
• Post-Traumatic Stress
• Relationships
• Sexual Abuse
• Sexuality
• Stress
• Suicide
• Supervision
• Trauma
• Workplace Counselling