Where it helps

Here is a list of some of the life-situations and conditions that have been helped within this practice:

• trauma, especially early relational trauma

• depression & anxiety

• bipolar disorders

• creative or personal growth

• integrating powerful experiences

• difficulties and upsets at work

• sexual and other abuse

• the effects of narcissistic, intrusive, or unreliable parenting

• relationships, particularly parental, work, sexual and caring relationships

• feeling stuck

• breakdown

• hearing voices

• agoraphobic, claustrophobic and obsessive suffering

• sudden setbacks in life

• mid-life, aging and other transitions

• worrying, compulsive, or criminal behaviours

• historical, political and intergenerational trauma

It can also be helpful professionally, especially for doctors, those in leadership positions, or people facing organisational change.

Specialist treatment will usually be recommended for those with marked substance-misuse, autism spectrum or eating disorders.

Psychodynamic psychotherapy is time intensive, so the NHS has tended to focus it on especially high-value or high-risk cohorts such as children and criminals. It is also used to help with a range of mental illnesses, including personality disorders, anxiety, depression, post-traumatic disorders, and, interestingly, some gastro-intestinal disorders. Private treatment has advantages even for those who have had this treatment from the NHS, because the clinician is more likely to be a psychodynamic therapy specialist, and, there is no rationing of treatment here meaning treatments can last as long as they are beneficial.

The practice works with a psychiatric consultant and can advise on private psychiatric assessments and other referrals.