Expertise
• Psychodynamic Psychotherapy – I currently see psychotherapy patients on Tuesday mornings, Wednesday afternoons, and all day Thursday and Friday. I’m often ‘full’. However if you email me I will let you know if I’ve a space or if one will soon be available.
By ‘psychotherapy’ I mean an ongoing relationship characterised by attempts at: truthfulness, apt trust, straightforwardness, accountability, understanding, vulnerability, care-taking, assertiveness, respect, self-knowledge, courage, dignity, acceptance, challenge, honesty and forgiveness. Its aim is inner change, growth, and relief from such painful repeated experiences as stem from within rather than only from life circumstance.
My approach is ‘psychodynamic’ – which is to say that I’ll at least sometimes focus on the ways in which you unconsciously tend to get in your own way in your relationships with yourself, with me, and with the other people in your life. Part of my job is to help you attend to, face, and own, rather than deflect from, your anxieties – so that you can move beyond them rather than remain curtailed by them. Another part is to share what I notice about patterns you tend to unwittingly repeat – so that you can make conscious choices in your life rather than be driven by unconscious habits.
Assessment and therapy sessions are £77 for a 50 minute session (payable monthly in arrears; fees revised annually in May). There is no concessionary rate. Further details about billing, missed sessions, etc., on application.
• Clinical Supervision – For those interested in deepening their therapeutic practice through reading the transference and countertransference, bringing the whole self to the therapeutic relationship, developing clarity and rigour, transcending technique- and model-driven practice, and drawing on the true moral and emotional potentiality of a therapeutic relationship. Weekly or fortnightly supervisions are £77 for a 50 minute session.
• Teaching – My academic work and teaching focuses on philosophical issues in psychology, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and psychopathology. I also run the Wittgenstein reading group in Oxford. At Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, I offer 8-week courses for visiting undergraduates in Wittgenstein’s philosophy, the philosophy of psychology, the philosophy of mental health, and the philosophy of mind. I also offer ongoing individual tuition in these topics for mental health professionals wanting to deepen their reflective appraisal of their discipline. These tuitions are £80 per hourly session.