My Approach

I’m Dan, an Integrative Psychotherapist offering a warm, friendly and calming space to facilitate a journey of self-discovery during which you can develop an understanding of how to cope with the prevailing challenges in your life, understand and regulate your emotions and work-through the impact of past-trauma. 

Initially, talking therapy is a way to explore and understand how past experiences relate to present day issues in life and provides a unique opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of how to cope and to improve overall mental health in meaningful ways that make a difference to your life.  It also provides the space away from day-to-day life to reflect on our historical and present patterns of behaviour and coping mechanisms and to think about relationships with others and the way we react to and view the world around us. Therapy also helps to provide insight into recurring patterns and situations and understand the reasons for them and how to overcome these challenges and create a different outcome.

The process of talking therapy can be very cathartic and helps to alleviate distress and past trauma and has a therapeutic effect, as words are used to communicate and express our views, feelings, and emotions.

My approach to therapy is Integrative and includes a relational Psycho-dynamic approach in which the dynamics of the unconscious mind are used to help you to gain a deeper understanding of yourself whilst creating freedom from past trauma, repressed emotion, to gain control over unwanted patterns of thought and behaviour and improve the quality of your relationships with others.