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Miranda Atherton, UKCP Accredited Psychotherapist

Miranda Atherton

Sheffield S6 English
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Miranda Atherton, UKCP Accredited Psychotherapist

Miranda Atherton

Sheffield S6 English
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About Me

I am an integrative psychotherapist who works from a relational developmental understanding of human experience. This means that I draw on psychodynamic and related theories that can help people understand how experiences in earlier life affect their lives as adults, emotionally and psychologically.
I have worked as psychotherapist since 2010 in statutory and voluntary settings and have a background in secondary mental health services since 1999 where I worked in a range of roles, gaining a broad experience of working with people experiencing distress, particularly related to abuse and trauma.

I work with

  • Individuals

Special Interests

Like all UKCP registered psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors I can work with a wide range of issues, but here are some areas in which I have a special interest or additional experience.

I am interested in how our cultures and societies are experienced by individuals. Particularly in how marginalisation, oppression and discrimmination affect individuals in all kinds of relationships: one to one, familial, wider society and politically. I believe it is important to explore and work with experiences of difference - no person's experience is the same as anothers and how unconscious bias has a significant role in this. All of us carry beliefs and ways of responding that are "automatic" and can shape our responses to others and to ourselves and so our relationships, which are so often what bring us into therapy.
I have found from my practical and theoretical learning that Post Traumatic Stress can have a massive impact on how people are able to live their lives, but that working with a person, I need to take time to learn from them just how PTS is present in their lives. I believe that this supports us to work together towards change.
I believe that our relationships are a necessary part of being human, with our relationships - past and present, with others and with ourselves are often influential in how we manage day to day. Whether these relationships are romantic, friendships, family or even with brief encounters, they can enrich our iives, but so often can cause all kinds of distress. In psychotherapy, we have the opportunity to experience a different kind of relationship, one where it can be possible to experiment and try our new ways of relating.
I value my own supervision and would not practice without having a supervisor whom I trust to guide and hold me through the huge variety that my practice brings. I believe that if I am to maintain an ethical and effective practice, I need good supervision. I trained as a clinical psychotherapy supervisor after having experience of multidisciplinary supervision as a senior practitioner and manager within statutory mental health service and work to offer a reflection of what I expect and need from supervision to my supervisees, in brief a space where they can find support, eduation and management guidance.
I have extensive experience in working with people who have experienced a range of traumatic experiences including complex and chronic trauma, both as a psychotherapist and previously within community mental health teams. This means that I have worked with people who have issues such as depression, anger, anxiety, dissociation or compulsive / addictive behaviours resulting from their experience. It also means that I have learned that trauma comes in many different forms, sadly too often in relationships, where the emotional wounds can have a greater impact than some physical ones.

Types of Therapies Offered

  • Integrative Psychotherapist

Types of sessions

  • Face to Face - Long Term
  • Face to Face - Short Term
  • Online Therapy

Sheffield Office

364 Walkley Bank Road
Walkley
Sheffield S6 5AR
UK

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Sheffield Office


Sheffield S6 5AR

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UKCP College

  • Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy College (HIPC)
Miranda Atherton

Miranda Atherton

Sheffield S6
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