My Approach

My foundation is in depth psychodynamic psychotherapy, drawing on structural insights to understand the unconscious patterns, historical adaptations, and transgenerational imprints that shape the person. This approach provides a disciplined, boundaried, and steady relational container directed toward the recovery of genuine psychological agency.

While grounded in clinical rigour, my work offers a steady capacity for individuals seeking to integrate their spiritual interiority, faith, or existential search within a depth psychological framework—as well as those of no faith tradition.

Prerequisites & Clinical Frame: Depth psychotherapy requires a baseline capacity for psychological mindedness, self-reflection, and structural emotional stability. This practice operates within a strictly therapeutic frame; it is not suitable for those seeking lifestyle optimisation, executive coaching, short-term symptom management, or acute psychiatric crisis intervention.

About Me

My name is Yowann Tresidder Tonkin. I am a UKCP-registered psychotherapist with over 20 years of clinical experience in private practice, based in West Cornwall and working online across Britain. My practice is dedicated to supporting individuals through periods of profound psychological crisis, structural burnout, complex trauma, and life disorientation.

I provide a specialized clinical focus across four core dimensions:

Complex Trauma & Relational Dynamics: Engaging CPTSD, developmental neglect, early institutionalisation/boarding school syndrome, the pain of estrangement, dissociative states, systemic invalidation, and deep-seated identity fragmentation.

Neurological Diversity & High Sensitivity: Providing specialized, non-deficit-based psychotherapy for Autism Spectrum Conditions (including profiles formerly termed Asperger’s) and high perceptual sensitivity—treating this as an intrinsic constitutional nature requiring integration amidst chronic environmental misalignment and exhaustion.

Parenthood, Lineage & Cultural Fragmentation: Working with individuals navigating the hidden, exhausting pressures of family stewardship, intergenerational trauma, and raising children amidst the fracturing of community and generational support. (Individual therapy only).

Existential Disorientation & Life Transitions: Addressing chronic depression, the collapse of vocational identity, mid-life and aging transitions, existential despair, and the profound loss of meaning.

Qualifications & Experience: I trained in London at Regent’s University and the CCPE, holding post-graduate diplomas in Spiritual Direction (Oxford) and Orthodox Theology (Cambridge). My practice aligns with Column C of the SCoPEd framework. Prior to psychotherapy, my background included operational management and senior leadership (supported by an MBA), giving me a demystified understanding of systemic pressure and high-accountability isolation.

Sessions take place at Skovva, a private stone cabin in West Cornwall, alongside an online practice across Britain.

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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.

Types of Therapies Offered

• Transpersonal Psychotherapist

What I can help with

• ADHD
• Age-related Issues
• Anger Management
• Autism
• Bereavement
• Depression
• Physical Abuse
• Post-Traumatic Stress
• Sexual Abuse
• Spirituality
• Stress
• Suicide
• Trauma