To offer an idea of what you could expect from the psychodynamic approach, and the way I work, I'd broadly describe its principles as follows: there will be a focus on your emotional world and how feelings are expressed or avoided; over time, we'd get to know the recurring themes and patterns in your life; we would discuss past experience and think about how it relates to the present; paying attention to the experience of the here-and-now and its possible meanings will provide helpful new ways of understanding; we'd get to know your relationships, of all kinds, including the therapy relationship itself, and; exploring the non-verbal parts of your experience - gestures, daydreams, dreams, images, intuitions, sensations - the things that sit closer to unconscious life are invaluable to psychoanalytic therapy. Engaging in therapy, in the principles above, talking about whatever comes to mind if you feel free to say it, can be a powerful and meaningful way to get to know your story, to help with the issues bringing you to therapy and to think about and find other, preferred ways of living. If you would like to get in touch, we would meet for an initial consultation first of all to discuss what has prompted you to find a therapist and to work out if psychodynamic therapy is the right approach for you. If we both feel we can work together then we would find a space in the week when we could meet. Because therapy works within boundaries that protect your emotional and psychological world, it is a commitment that benefits immensely from the stability and momentum that weekly sessions provide. Each meeting lasts for 50 minutes. The work tends to be longer-term and is usually open-ended, within a shared understanding of its purpose and what we are meeting to do and why.