Leeds Psychotherapy

Thank you for your interest in finding my website. I am now in the process of closing my psychotherapy practice. This is to give me more time for my art practice of painting and drawing.

I work with individuals, couples and offer social dreaming to groups and organisations. I am a Jungian psychotherapist.

My job is to enable the person who has come to ask for my help to make sense of their experience.   Jung gave us the idea that our suffering is saying something that cannot be said in any other way. Your distress is meaningful but may not be understood by you or others, and above all, we need to make sense of our experiences, past and present. It is part of healing and coming into the fullness of being. Both of which are possible.

Putting together suffering and asking for help is creative and cause for hope.

Psychotherapy introduces you into a way of understanding that includes feelings, intuitions, imagination and dreams into capacity for thought, in addition to intentional thought. These happen spontaneously and are complex forms of thought that require consideration to be understood.

In the first place they need to be noticed. It’s a simple word ‘notice’ but it is important. For instance, when feeling something there is a need to notice it and take a small sideways step to be curious and describe what is happening. If I notice a dream as I wake, it’s possible to give it attention and something will always come from it. If I don’t notice it, and preferably write it down, it is gone, like a deer in the forest.

The conversations between you and I develop your ability to converse with yourself, and when you can do for yourself what the sessions do for you, the work is done.  Psychotherapy develops and/or repairs your ability to generate your own truths.

Broadly there are three ways I work with individuals; using conversation and the relationship between us, and energy psychotherapy and shamanism which I explain on other pages of the website. Depending on your needs and wishes, we shall use one or weave two or three.

Finding the right therapist or counsellor for you is important and it is quite appropriate to meet with two or three to find one that feels right for you.There’s information on this site that we may give you a feel for what it might be like to meet me for therapy. You can find out more by phoning for an initial chat or to make an appointment.