Sophia Berouka

My approach to psychotherapy and psychoanalysis involves trying to understand and address difficulties by increasing awareness of the more underlying aspects that lead to the development of symptoms. I will start by being curious and listening carefully at what brought you to therapy: the moments that marked your life, your relationship to others and the issues that may be making life hard for you. The specific words you use to describe your problems and the thoughts, feelings and memories that may come up during sessions are all important as they can open the way to understanding the more underlying concerns that lie behind symptoms. I first trained as a Psychologist in Greece and then continued with a 10-year long training in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in various institutions and universities in the UK. I have 15 years experience of working in different settings such as the Priory (current), Secondary Care NHS settings, eating disorders clinics, universities, employee assistance programmes and private practice. By exploring their concerns in such an open and rigorous way with someone they can trust, people can make deeper, more lasting changes, and can find creative solutions to their concerns. My experience has taught me that symptoms will not go away until we have heard what they want to say and grasped something about their role in our life.