Frequently Asked Questions
How do I know if you are the right therapist for me? This is why an initial consultation can be useful. If…
How I Work As A Supervisor
I work with a model of supervision that is psychoanalytic, relational and embodied in its style. What this means is that the…
How I Work As A Therapist
Psychodynamic psychotherapy explores those aspects of self that are not fully known, especially as they are manifested and potentially influenced in the…
How We Lost The Soul
In his classic text Freud And Man’s Soul, the Austrian-born psychoanalyst Bruno Bettleheim provides a compelling account of the common misinterpretation of…
When Words Fall Short
“There’s something fishy about describing people’s feelings. You try hard to be accurate, but as soon as you start to define such…
Demystifying The Talking Cure
There is something mystifying about the world of therapy and it could be holding the profession back. For people who would like…
How The Light Gets In
More than a century ago, Sigmund Freud created a radical method of attending to the very particular ways in which a person…
The Truth Cannot Force Its Way In
After a long time in which left and right blurred into one, lo and behold some contrast has been etched across the…
Intolerable To Our Waking Minds
All of us to a greater or lesser degree are susceptible to black-and-white thinking. It is a very human trait. The capacity…