Therapy in North London
Therapy is a safe space to explore the problems you are facing, discover there is another way of understanding these issues and that you can address them in a different way.
Therapy in London
Hello, my name is Kevin. I am a psychotherapist, counsellor and Cognitive Behaviour Therapist offering counselling in Finchley, Golders Green, Hendon, Barnet, North London and online.
As a practicing therapist with more than thirty year's experience, I've helped many people from different backgrounds and I work with a range of therapies, like Cognitive Behaviour Therapy or a more psychodynamic approach, depending on what is best for the client.
Sometimes life can throw at us more than we are able make sense of. This can affect you and your relationships, whether at work or in your personal life and a loss of self-confidence can lead to some critical, negative thinking. You begin to see how you are thinking and behaving in a way you don't like - in the same 'old situation' - feeling both anxious and stressed. You know you don't want to be there, and yet somehow it has happened again.
Why Counselling?
When you come to see the therapist, the ‘problem’ you are trying to understand, often feels like it is just happening to you, rather than an issue you have thought about and addressed. Counselling gives you a safe place to talk about what's happening in your life, but without the shame or guilty feelings that are often a part of the 'problem'. Getting things out in the open and sharing them with someone who can listen without being involved, helps you see and understand the difficulties you are facing, and also to see them from a different perspective. This helps you realise that this negative thinking about yourself can be challenged. Then you begin to see it's not necessary and it doesn't have to be this way.
A part of this process, is about seeing how relationships from the past can play out in the present, influencing and shaping how you both feel and behave. This helps you understand what's going on and develop a more mindful attitude towards yourself, rather than just reacting when you feel stressed and upset.
An important part of counselling, is that as it progresses and you become more aware and confident, you can think about new ways of addressing these issues, and start to make changes in the world outside and in your relationships. But this is not an easy process, it takes time and effort, and having someone there, travelling with you and supporting you as you start to find a better way to get on with your life, can make a real difference.
MY APPROACH
- Is Phenomenological and Person-Centred - We take your experience and understanding as the beginning of our exploration and journey together.
- Existential - Addresses the important issues and decisions you are facing.
- Psychodynamic - Helps you see how past relationships can have a real influence on your relationships now.
- Solution focused - Thinks about strategies using Cognitive Behaviour Therapy that will help you move forward and make positive changes in your life.
Issues You Can Bring to Counselling
Counselling almost always starts with the ‘problem’ – feeling anxious and stressed, panic attacks, not sleeping well, self-medicating with drugs or alcohol, issues around low self-esteem, obsessing about things, procrastinating, often feeling tired and a myriad other ways of describing what is troubling you. But underneath this unhappiness there is also what I sometimes call an emotional or 'subjective logic'.
What is that tendency or 'emotional logic' which keeps you in a relationship that is not working, why do you keep obsessing or going on about certain things, what’s making you very anxious at times or angry, why are you so critical of yourself and often feel you must do more than you need to and end up sliding into those feelings of depression and low self-esteem? It is these subjective 'logics' or tendencies that can have an addictive quality, in the sense you keep getting drawn into them, in spite of your best intentions, which you can then explore in the therapy. And it is by exploring them, putting them on the table so to speak, and having a good look at them and understanding what is going on, that paves the way for making real changes in your life.
People come to me for help with a wide range of issues. You can see below some of the more common difficulties that can be addressed through counselling:
Feelings of stress or anxiety
Panic attacks
Relationship problems
Grief, loss or bereavement
Problems with addiction
Trauma and post-traumatic stress
Abuse
Depression
Problems with confidence and self-esteem
Anger management
Issues around diversity and one's identity
Difficulties at work or in retirement
Family problems in the present and from the past
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Accredited counsellor, therapist and supervisor with over 30 years’ experience offering counselling, CBT and psychotherapy, in the Finchley, Barnet, Golders Green, Hendon and North London area.
- Work with a range of therapies including, Psychodynamic and Existential Therapies, Person-Centred Counselling and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT).
- Trained as an Existential Therapist with the Philadelphia Association.
- Worked in NHS Alcohol Clinics, GP surgeries and Mental Health Resource Centres.
- Taught and supervised at training institutions such as Regents College, the Minster Centre and the College of North East London.
- Post-Graduate Diploma in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Institute of Psychotherapy and Social Studies.
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