Psychotherapy

Life may bring many changes, such as death and bereavement, illness, divorce, children leaving home, marital problems, and retirement, to name but a few transitions which we may all expect at some time or other to encounter. Some people do not like to ask for help. They believe it is a sign of failure or human weakness. They feel they should be able to manage with the support of family or friends or even on their own alone.

However supportive others may be, it is helpful and important to talk to someone who understands such changes and life transitions, and who has the skills and expertise to help with the difficulties such changes may bring.

Specialist help in the form of therapy or counselling can prevent problems later on that could have been avoided. Facing up to divorce, illness, retirement or bereavement can be frightening and bewildering experience – something out of the ordinary. Identifying and exploring with a psychotherapist/counsellor your own personal response to such stresses enables you to prepare and to make use of the qualities, time or inner resources you have at your disposal.

Whoever you are, whatever your age, whatever the problem you are facing, whether you are depressed, confused, feeling bad about yourself, worried, wanting to make some changes in your life or coping with unwanted change, it can help to talk things over in confidence with an understanding outsider. This kind of talking about what is on your mind can help you to discover more about yourself, your strengths and weaknesses, values and priorities and not only to find your own solutions but also to carry them out, to take some action for yourself.

Confidential psychoanalytic psychotherapy and counselling respects the needs of the individual and will not seek to impose opinions on you or to make decisions for you. The aim is to help you to find your own answers and to become more in charge of your life rather than less so, to tolerate what cannot be changed and to change what can. To make conscious what may be unconscious. Psychotherapy / Counselling requires commitment of time and effort to allow a safe containing environment from which to explore the impact of the past on the present, to move towards fuller understanding in the future.

A confidential psychotherapy/counselling service is offered for individuals, couples or families from a professionally qualified Counsellor and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist. Talking to a psychotherapist/counsellor who understands, and who has the skills to help, may be the first step in facing and dealing with life’s problems and changes. To ask for help is a sign of strength and courage.

Marie Conyers is affiliated to the following organisations

Member of the British Psychoanalytic Council
Associate Member of the London Centre for Psychotherapy
Senior Registered Practitioner/Accredited Counsellor with the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
Member of the United Kingdom Register of CounsellorsMember of the British Association forPsychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Supervision

Marie Conyers is bound by the professional code of ethics of all the above organisations