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As a potential referrer in the medical profession, you might be recommending to your patients a combination of medical and/or talking therapy.

NICE guidelines will advocate a range of evidence based therapies for different types of presenting problems. These might include CBT for anxiety and depression; a combination of CBT and social support for self medication; DBT / mentalization to treat borderline presentations as well as CBT / psychodynamic approaches for developmental trauma.

All have a valid place in terms of treating a patient emotional and mental disturbance. I can offer all of the above, however, from my own clinical experience the most important factor helping the patient is a regular relationship with someone who will be there to listen and to understand the patient's disturbance.

"On patients”

Most patients present with a feeling that they're not good enough, they fear and compare themselves with others.

In therapy I will seek to explore their particular script with them, for example, what makes them unhappy, what they want to change, the origins of their script, the nature of their earliest important relationships, the extent to which they received praise or approval; Perhaps their difference and / or uniqueness was not permitted.

Whatever the sources of the presenting problem, I will broadly seek to approach therapy by:-

• Stage 1 : Focusing on spend time making the patient feel heard and understood.

• Stage 2 : Then gradually helping the patient to become aware of their particular script. This might involve some timely use of psycho-education to promote awareness.

• Stage 3 : Finally, I will then seek to support the client with changing their script. Here, what happens inside and outside the room is very instructive in providing useful material to work on in the sessions. Usually, I will begin with working with what happens outside the room as material to illuminate patterns of interpersonal functioning. Meanwhile as the patient relationship becomes stronger I might then begin to work more with the dynamics of what happens "inside the room" within our therapeutic relationship. It is in working week in week with the patient that change usually incrementally happens.

"On me"

My experiences is significant and for further information please see the website section titled "about me" or my Curriculum Vitae located here

I have extensive experience working with diverse individuals who are engaged in their own personal struggle with what it means to be human in a particular situation, body, family, culture, sexual and gender identity, society and time.

I also have regular supervision with a highly experienced and qualified supervisor which gives me additional insight into the challenges presented. It also contributes to what you as a professional need from a referring therapist which is a safe pair of hands. For a profile of my Supervisor and reference, please see here