My goal, whether in Art Therapy or Analytic Psychotherapy, is in an increased level of emotional integration of the different conscious and unconscious aspects of the personality of each individual. I function as a sound and flexible container to allow this development to occur. My own analysis and training has provided me with an approach that is influenced by Jung, Klein and Bion. I aim to help the individuals I work with to understand themselves more deeply as they seek more truth and wholeness to become better able to manage the difficult realities of life.

 

I have experience of working in the fields of mental health, addiction, eating disorders, palliative care, those struggling with the residual difficulties of childhood trauma or mid-life change, disability and particularly with the elderly. I have worked with people who have suffered with anxiety, depression, loss, bereavement, low self-esteem, eating problems, poor motivation, feelings of emptiness or inferiority, or even a vague feeling that something is not as it should be.

For seven years I have worked as an honorary psychotherapist with individual patients within an NHS psychiatric unit. I am also employed within the NHS to facilitate a staff awareness group for a multi-disciplinary group of professionals.  I am also working as an art therapist with the County Council Careers Department to run groups for young people with a variety of mental health problems.