Susan Lee - Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

General Availability

Weekday Daytimes, Weekday Evenings

British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) Registered Psychodynamic Psychotherapist
UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) Registered Psychotherapist - Psychodynamic Psychotherapist

I provide Face to Face Counselling and Psychotherapy in Woodchester, Stroud

Fees: Individuals £40.00 - 50 minutes
Approximate length of therapy: ongoing
Languages: English

I offer Private Counselling and Psychotherapy Services for these Issues

Abuse, Anger, Anxiety, Assertiveness, Bereavement, Bisexual Issues, Bullying, Business Leadership, Cancer, Career Issues, Childhood Issues, Creativity, Debt, Depression, Dissociation, Divorce, Gay Issues, Grief, History of Mental Health Problems, HIV and AIDS, Hysteria, Identity, Integration of Experience, Lack of Meaning in Life, Lesbian Issues, Loneliness, Low Self Confidence, Low Self Esteem, Marriage, Men's Issues, Midlife Crisis, Obsessions, Panic Attacks, Parenting, Personal Growth, Personal Relationships, Personality Difficulties, Personality Disorders (PD), Phobias, Physical Illness, Post Natal Depression (PND), Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Psychosexual Issues, Psychosomatic Symptoms, Rape, Redundancy, Same Sex Relationships, Self Development, Self Harm, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Behaviour, Sexuality, Social Phobia, Stress, Suicidal Thoughts, Trauma, Trichotillomania, Unresolved Issues, Workplace Issues and Work Relationship Problems

My Counselling and Psychotherapy Therapeutic Approach

Psychodynamic Therapy

Gender

Female

Clinical Experience in Counselling and Psychotherapy

I am able to offer once weekly counselling or once or twice weekly psychotherapy in an accessible location near to Stroud. I have trained as a counsellor and as a psychotherapist and believe I can offer a range of depth and experience as a result of this. I am trained psychodynamically, which means that I work with the connections between past and present relationships, including the developing therapeutic relationship. I have an MA in personal and organisational development and worked as a business coach before my clinical training so I am familiar with the world of work and how it can impact on our inner world. I have been seeing counselling clients with a range of personal and inter-personal difficulties for the last eight years. Since 2008 I have been undertaking additional training as a psychotherapist.

What to Expect during Counselling and Psychotherapy

Often difficult or unresolved relationships from the past can over-determine our responses to current relationships, limiting our ability to fully engage with the present for what it is and the opportunities that life can offer us for personal development, growth and relationship.

Therapeutic work allows us to explore together what some of these repeating patterns might mean to you individually and is a unique opportunity to know and think about them together as they are unfolding.

For some people, traumatic experiences in their childhood have meant that whole aspects of their past are lost to them, and sometimes these can be gradually brought into awareness again within a trusting and confidential space.

I will endeavour to work at the pace that you feel comfortable with and not force our progress - the agenda is always yours to bring. I would also be challenging where that felt helpful and appropriate. I believe that psychodynamic work can take time and care.

I try to work with diversity as openly and sensitively as I can, understanding that issues of race and culture, disability, gender, and sexuality interact with what happens to us in our personal lives. It is the quality of the relationship that matters most.

My work is confidential, supervised by a senior colleague, I abide by my professional organisation's code of ethics and I am governed by their complaints procedure.

Initially I find it is helpful to meet for a couple of sessions to see if we feel that we can work productively and creatively together.

Clinical Qualifications in Counselling and Psychotherapy

UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) Registered Psychotherapist - Psychodynamic Psychotherapist since 2008
British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) Registered Psychodynamic Psychotherapist since 2008
Post Graduate Diploma Psychodynamic Psychotherapy - Westminster Pastoral Foundation (WPF) Therapy London Validated by Roehampton University London (UK) 2008
Diploma Psychodynamic Counselling - Westminster Pastoral Foundation (WPF) Therapy London (UK) 2005
MA Personal and Organisational Development - Middlesex University (UK) 1998

I am committed to Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in Counselling and Psychotherapy. I abide by the Code of Ethics of the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC), the Code of Ethics of the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) and the Code of Ethics of the Westminster Pastoral Foundation (WPF) Therapy London.

Additional Information

Please note that there is wheelchair access to consulting rooms but not a disabled toilet on the ground floor.

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My Consulting Address is in easy reach of: Woodchester, Bagpath, Rodborough, Houndscroft, Cainscross, Amberley, Thrupp, Stroud, Brimscombe, King's Stanley, Whiteshill, Minchinhampton, Randwick, Nailsworth, Pitchcombe, Hyde, Nympsfield, Eastcombe, Slad, Bournes Green

Nearest Train Stations: Stroud (Gloucestershire), Stonehouse, Cam and Dursley, Kemble, Gloucester, Lydney, Cheltenham Spa, Yate, Chippenham, Ashchurch for Tewkesbury

Wheelchair access: No