online psychotherapy
Craig Brand BSc mbacp, Psychotherapist
about therapy with me
Therapy can feel like a strange and daunting thing to put yourself forward for – a brave step. It can also be a deep commitment to yourself, an investment in yourself and future, something you may only do once in life, to really change things. Much is said in the popular media about therapy, that ‘it’s good to talk.’ While it’s true that therapy is a space to talk and be heard, it can be so much more too.
Below is some more information about my approach to therapy. In essence my work lies in helping people work through whatever it is that’s affecting them from a broad, open-minded perspective, looking at your past, present and future. Psychodynamic and existential therapies appreciate the richly woven texture of a personal history that sometimes only comes alive when spoken about in great detail. Career & family anxieties, discomfort with relationships & sexuality, lingering anger & resentment can all dissolve away.
psychodynamic psychotherapy
Psychodynamic therapy pays attention to the often hidden, unconscious parts of ourselves that affect us. It can work by understanding how our pasts – from the relationships in our childhood, through all of our experiences since – continue to shape and affect us in the present. It can be particularly effective and recommended when a problem seems persistent or stuck in some way. Or when other approaches haven’t seemed to fully help.
I often work with people who’ve tried a therapy such as CBT, or mindfulness practices, which has helped for a while, but still the issue returns. They have the feeling of wanting to go deeper, to find a root cause. It can be for the same reason that advice from family & friends, or reading self-help books, doesn’t seem to resolve things – on one level you know what you want or need, but still a problem persists or repeats.
For example, if you experience the same unsatisfying difficulties in one relationship after another. Or seem to sabotage your life goals time and again. Perhaps your emotional struggles seem vague yet pervasive – like anxiety or depression that’s hard to understand, but that has affected you for a long time. Psychodynamic psychotherapy allows for the space and depth needed to explore these issues more fully.
existential psychotherapy
Existential psychotherapy is a talking therapy based around a deeply human conversation. It is an evidence-based, non-judgemental approach, and avoids simplistic ways of seeing your problems as an “illness” or fault inside of you. Rather, it appreciates the true richness and complexity of being human; how our emotional difficulties relate to all aspects of our lives and deaths – our pasts, present and futures.
Existential therapy is well suited to anyone curious about themselves and their lives. People are often surprised at how seemingly unrelated mental health issues are connected to very natural, but difficult, parts of being human.
That may be the unique struggles you face in the present – your relationships, career or illness. Or perhaps the social and cultural parts of life that shape you – your identity, sexuality, race or gender. Or it may be the truly universal struggles of being human: how to face life and death; how to choose to live; how to find meaning in life and live the right life for you; how to love your life; how to prepare for your death.
07554 809361
craig@yourworldtherapy.com
