Adam Clayton

I'm Adam, a UKCP Relational Integrative Psychotherapist. I look forward to welcoming you either in-person in my quiet North Leeds home office or online. Are you exhausted from carrying heaviness on your own? Is the strain too much, trapping you in painful relationship loops, feeling unseen, or turning to quick escapes just to catch your breath? I offfer you that breathing space, to talk and just to be. You are likely here because you need relief, but beneath immediate distress often lies a desire for genuine connection and a life that actually feels like your own. I'm grounded in Relational Psychoanalysis, Attachment, and Jungian approaches, particular ways of accompanying past and present suffering, heightening awareness and offering illumination for the future. I treat theory, techniques and diagnosis lightly, as frameworks to help get to know you and your history, not as rigid boxes to define you. How I work... • Experientially: noticing what happens between us. • Imaginatively: being open to dreams and symbols when words fail. • Courageously: facing family patterns keeping you stuck. • Compassionately: helping you safely drop your guard. • Holistically: listening to your body so you can rest and begin to hear the different parts of you • Truthfully: a responsive space, not just 'nodding & smiling'. Sitting together, we seek a pace that brings safety while doing the deeper work for lasting change. I offer a presence sturdy enough to help carry your heaviest unspoken pain, yet spacious enough to let you breathe. Together, we will explore what is calling 'beyond' survival mode, explore your needs and wishes, and move towards a more grounded, authentic life.