I offer short- and long-term adult psychodynamic and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. I aim to create a non-judgemental and collaborative relationship that facilitates self-understanding. Psychotherapy is a way for us to think together about your past and its impact on your present thoughts and actions. If we leave past experiences un-examined, we often find ourselves repeating painful and difficult ways of being in the present. By supporting you to speak freely, and by listening, I can help you better understand and work through your experiences, transforming their effects. Psychotherapy should be a challenging but rewarding process where we gain greater agency and satisfaction in our lives.
My main areas are anxiety, depression, and relationship difficulties. I am also experienced working with problems around work and creativity, trauma/complex-PTSD, social isolation, as well as questions of sexuality and gender.
In my practice I enjoy working with people from a wide range of backgrounds. I know that many people are cautious about psychotherapy, and I take the significance of our social circumstances (such as class, race and gender) seriously in my approach.
The relationship between you and your therapist is important and I recommend meeting before making any commitment. We can make an appointment for an initial consultation and discuss how we might best work together.
David Hansen-Miller, PhD 