About the Therapy
A cornerstone of my framework is the premise that people seek attachment-relationships and that the shared impact of these relationships is central to our inner worlds.
Our psychological development occurs through relational interactions therefore insensitive care, neglect or abuse has profound and far-reaching effects. As mental distress originates in a relational field, healing also emerges from a relational context.
As a relational-integrative psychotherapist I see the therapeutic relationship as a powerful curative agent, the quality of which has been shown to be of such crucial importance.
The therapeutic relationship provides a space in which to integrate material that has been disintegrated.
Through engagement with the split-off parts there is the hope of reintegration of previously dissociated experiences, so that one may move fluidly across the dynamic multiplicity of selves.
As each client is unique and has different needs and requirements from therapy, I will aim to attune to your changing needs, whilst at the same time providing my own understanding of the situation, with the aim of (re) constructing more useful relational meanings by which to live.
Some of the frameworks that inform my conceptualisation include: developmentally-minded theories, attachment, infant studies, object relations, self-psychology, intersubjectivity, and relational psychoanalysis as well as broader social theories.
