Jill Wootten - Psychodynamic Counselling

Abuse, Anger, Anorexia Nervosa, Bereavement, Binge Eating Disorder (BED), Bipolar Disorder, Bulimia Nervosa, Dependent Personality Disorder (DPD), Depression, Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Panic Disorder, Personal Development, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Relationship Problems, Self Esteem, Self Harm, Stress, Work Problems

Psychodynamic Therapy

Female

I work with depression, anxiety, bereavement and a wide range of issues. Keeping your individual experience in focus is central to the way I work and the counselling I offer. I work to help you find ways to process, understand and overcome the individual difficulties you are faced with. I focus on what is important to you and the changes you want to achieve. Issues like recurrent depression, anxiety, difficulty with grief or loss are often directly linked to your past. I help you to think about your history and how it has impacted on you. This enables you to develop an understanding of the root cause of your problem, which in turn helps you to achieve real change. This doesn't mean that I only focus on your past, but that I take your whole life experience, not just the present day, into account when working with you. In this way you achieve change rooted in your own life experience, a change based on your understanding of yourself. I also work with postnatal depression, childbirth and parenting years issues. As an antenatal teacher for The National Childbirth Trust, I taught couples for over 10 years. This has made me very aware of the real mix of excitement, uncertainty, anxiety and worry that parents often feel during pregnancy, childbirth and throughout the parenting years. Combining this awareness and learning with my role as a Psychotherapist has given me the ability to work effectively with a whole range of parenting issues including miscarriage, still birth, traumatic birth, relationship breakdown, fatherhood, infertility and parenting a disabled child. I have extensive experience working with postnatal depression and its impact on both partners. I have also been a birth partner on several occasions which has enabled me to gain an insight into this role. Becoming a parent often stirs up your own experience of being a child. Some of these experiences are positive and some are not. For example if you had a difficult relationship with your parents you may now be struggling to establish a relationship with your child. Past experiences can impact on your present day feelings and your expectations of yourself as a parent. The counselling I offer will help you to process your history alongside your current issues. I will help you understand how your parenting has been affected by your past as well as the present day. This is not about blaming anyone for how you were brought up but about how you as an individual experience life. Working in this way allows you to grow into the parent you wish to be, making informed choices based on a better understanding of who you are both as an individual and as a parent.

• UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) Registered Psychotherapist - Psychodynamic Psychotherapist since 2008
• UKCP Accredited Training Psychodynamic Counselling - UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) London (UK) 1999

I am committed to Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in Counselling and Psychotherapy. I abide by the Code of Ethics of the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) and the Code of Ethics of the Foundation for Psychotherapy and Counselling (FPC) London.

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