Therapy sessions in Cape Town:
Psychotherapy is a space to hear your authentic reflections openly and clearly, on one's core personal narrative and experience. In considering mental health matters we seek in psychotherapy to address what our authentic psychological-emotional needs are, what they may be associated with to you, and how we may respond to them. Therapy is a place for hearing personal stories that people carry, and finding ways to answer personal questions and address psychological experience warmly and helpfully. Sessions are broadly psychodynamic, also drawing on existential perspectives. I often work with:
- Symptoms of anxiety: As human beings we have a strong, highly-attuned response to danger that is physiologically automatic and neurochemically potent in its effects on for example breathing and heart rate. In anxiety there is also distress psychologically: we feel fear, overwhelm, self-consciousness, we feel uncertain. When one suffers from anxiety we can sometimes panic: freezing, rushing, becoming agitated, and it can be difficult to think clearly in high-stress situations. Anxiety can also be a more low-level generalised feeling of agitation or unease.
- Signs of depression: Depression can involve a loss of interest in things previously enjoyed, long-lasting low mood, low motivation, indecision, low energy, and a sense of hopelessness or meaninglessness. It can sometimes be a feeling we can associate with our sense of self in the world, and our experience of life that has perhaps been disheartening. Depression can also present a challenge to us that needs answering.
Experience & services:
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Panic attack
- Self-esteem
- Life narrative
- Existential
- Assertiveness
- Relational
- Dream interpretation
