Richard Snowdon MA (Merit) Psychoanalysis MBACP (Accred)

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BACP Accredited Counsellor and Psychotherapist

I provide Face to Face Counselling, Psychotherapy for £90.00

Fees: Individuals £90.00
Approximate length of one appointment: 50 minutes
Approximate length of therapy: initial session, then six weeks for counselling, one year plus for psychotherapy.
Languages: English
Nearest Train Station: London Victoria.
Nearest Tube Station: Pimlico and Victoria.
Nearest Bus Stop: Lupus Street and Belgrave Road.
I am in easy reach of: Central London.
Wheelchair access: Yes

I provide Telephone Counselling for £60.00

Approximate length of one Telephone appointment: 50 minutes
Approximate length of Telephone counselling: initial session, then six weeks.
Languages: English

I provide Email Counselling for £30.00

Approximate time I will spend on an Email response to a client: 50 minutes
Approximate length of Email counselling: initial email exchange, then six exchanges.
Languages: English

Problems I work with: Abuse, Anxiety, Bereavement, Childhood issues, Confidence issues, Cultural issues, Depression, Exile issues, Grief, History of mental illness, Identity, Inhibitions, Integration of experience, Internet addiction, Internet pornography addiction, Lack of meaning in life, Loneliness, Loss, Marriage (Marital relations), Midlife crisis, Obsessions, OCD, Personal growth, Personal relationships, Personality difficulties, Personality disorders, Psychosomatic symptoms, Sexual abuse, Sexual behaviour, Sexuality, Stress, Transitions, Trauma, Unresolved issues, Work issues and relationships

Clinical Experience in Counselling, Psychotherapy

I have worked with private clients since 1999, and NHS patients from Westminster NHS Primary Care Trust since 2001. I have also worked for Central and North West London Mental Health NHS Trust from 2003 to 2007, and the Single Homeless Project from 1999 to 2003 - an example of my clinical work there was published in 'Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing - The Craft of Caring' in 2003. I helped launch the Listening and Counselling Centre in London for people on low incomes during 1998 and 1999.

How I Work

My training in counselling is integrative. This means I integrate different counselling approaches appropriate to the issues my clients wish to work on. For example, for short term counselling we may use a solution focused approach in order to work on current problems and find solutions. With longer term psychotherapy where clients require a more fundamental understanding of themselves, we use a psychodynamic approach. Psychodynamic theory recognises that childhood relationships with others are not completely remembered in adulthood. Instead they can be repeated in adulthood in the form of troubling thoughts, ideas, emotions, symptoms or dreams which clients don't see as fitting in with how they think things should be: the past is repeated in some shape or form, not remembered. Clients are often anxious or depressed when they start therapy, often because they cannot fully understand why they are troubled by something. This longer term therapy therefore involves my clients speaking about whatever is on their minds without censorship, whether it be about the past, the present or the future, in order to understand, and with this knowledge either bring about change or find acceptance. What it is that clients want from their lives often changes as they get beyond anxiety or depression and they see themselves differently. I provide a confidential and supportive environment in which this process takes place.

Clinical Training in Counselling, Psychotherapy

I qualified with an Advanced Diploma in counselling from the Whittington Hospital NHS Trust in 1999. I then completed an MA (Merit) in psychoanalysis and was awarded a distinction for my thesis in 2001. I completed specialist training in online therapy with Kate Anthony MSc, author of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) Guidelines for Online Counselling and Psychotherapy. I have also undertaken training in Lacanian Analysis with the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research (CFAR) in London.

Additional Information from Richard Snowdon

I combine my counselling work with running www.rscpp.co.uk: doing both helps me understand what people want from therapy and what therapy can offer them.

I am a member of the ISMHO (International Society for Mental Health Online).

My articles on mental health matters have been published by the IIRSM (International Institute of Risk and Safety Management), and Heath and Safety Professional.

Testimonials about Richard Snowdon

"I have known Richard Snowdon in my professional capacity as a GP since June 2001. He has been attached to the surgery, working as a Primary Care Counsellor giving various types of psychological treatment for family problems, relationship problems, anxiety and depression. He has achieved very good results in his interventions with patients. He is a highly motivated individual. His communication both with other members of the primary health care team as well as patients is excellent." Dr Mostad | GP | Westminster NHS Primary Care Trust

"Before I started to work with Richard, it was as if I was living in a parallel universe inside my head. I either rushed into things or spent all day thinking about them and not doing them at all. I often felt anxious and unsure of myself. In time, working with Richard helped me to overcome these issues along with issues from my childhood which enabled me to be more confident and start to see and accept myself and the world as it was. His approach is to facilitate and support, whilst leaving you to draw your own conclusions about who or what you are. I can recommend him with complete confidence." Gay Professional Male 50yrs old in Central London

"Richard Snowdon has been our first choice therapist since 1999 for a number of reasons, the most significant of which has been his ability to engage and hold people in what is always a challenging process. Many homeless people feel far from mental health services, due to a combination of powerlessness and past negative experiences. Richard projects a reality about himself, and about the therapeutic process, which our clients have almost all related to immediately. We have therefore reserved our more complex cases for him, with exceptional results." Jon Wigmore | RMN | Single Homeless Project

Articles by Richard Snowdon

Combating Mental Health Stigma
To the ancient Greeks, stigma meant 'mark' or 'brand'. Today stigma indicates disapproval and negative ideas attached to a particular characteristic, condition, lifestyle, or people. People are 'marked' out especially when they are different or other to the...

Freud and Ferenczi on Transference Love
This paper is on transference love from the perspectives of both Sigmund Freud and Sandor Ferenczi. Firstly, a consideration of the work of Freud on transference love is taken from a selection of his papers written between 1910 and 1919. This will...

Freud on Transference
INTRODUCTION ‘The Dynamics of Transference’ (Freud 1912), addresses the origin of transference. It explains how transference necessarily emerges in analysis and how it both aids, and hinders (as resistance), the recovery of the analysand. ‘Remembering, Repeating...

How Freud Arrived at the Origin of Anxiety
ABSTRACT The problem of anxiety was constantly present for Freud throughout his work on the neuroses. Anxiety had a relation to the neuroses which Freud tried to elucidate. The problem of this thesis is how Freud arrived at castration anxiety as the...

Stressed? Learn to Relax
If you are stressed, here are a few kinds of relaxation techniques for you to consider using. I have found that patients I have worked with in the NHS have found them useful. With practice, and used overtime, they can help you become aware of tension...

Depression and the Famous
As depression is common, it is not surprising that many famous people have had a depression. There still remains a stigma attached to mental health. Famous people help to reduce this stigma when they talk publicly about their mental health. The Oxford...