If you feel you or your family could be helped by talking through a mental health issue, or you feel that psychotherapeutic input might be right for you, then please do get in touch.
Our clinicians are available to talk through your concerns over the phone and can advise as to whether therapeutic help might be beneficial. We offer appointments throughout the day and run evening clinics throughout the week, including Saturdays. We are also able to offer sessions via Zoom where we feel this is clinically appropriate.
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Therapy Types
Psychodynamic Adult Therapy
Psychodynamic Adult Therapy is a depth-based approach that explores how past experiences, relationships, and unconscious patterns shape current feelings, symptoms, and difficulties.
The focus is not only on immediate relief in the present, but on understanding what drives repeating patterns and inner conflict, in order to bring about long term results. Therapy provides a reflective space to develop insight, emotional flexibility, and more satisfying relationships.
What to Expect
Sessions usually take place weekly (sometimes twice weekly) and are guided by what the client wants to bring. The work is collaborative and exploratory rather than prescriptive. Over time, you and the therapist pay attention to recurring emotional themes, relational patterns, self-critical beliefs, and ways of coping that may once have been necessary but now cause problems. The therapeutic relationship itself can become a useful place to notice and understand these patterns in real time. Psychodynamic therapy is not primarily about techniques or homework; it is about thinking and feeling with greater clarity, tolerating complexity, and developing a more compassionate and integrated sense of self.
Evidence Base & Suitability
Psychodynamic psychotherapy has a substantial evidence base across common and complex presentations, including depression, anxiety, trauma-related difficulties, and personality/relationship problems. Meta-analytic studies suggests outcomes equal to or better than other evidence-based therapies for many conditions, with some evidence that gains continue after treatment ends, consistent with deeper change in underlying patterns. It can be particularly suitable where difficulties are recurrent, long-standing, relational, or associated with persistent self-criticism, shame, or emotional disconnection. It may be less suitable where an immediately structured, protocol-led intervention is required, or where the person strongly prefers a primarily skills-based, symptom-tracking format.
“Psychodynamic therapy helps you understand why certain feelings and patterns keep returning — and what they may be protecting you from. We work at a pace that feels safe, building insight and emotional freedom. For many people, the value is not only symptom relief, but a steadier, more compassionate relationship with themselves and others.”
