I spent most of my career working with complex presentations - clients whose experiences, symptoms and needs that don't fit into simplistic formulations.

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A lot of my clients experience overlapping symptoms (e.g. depression and anxiety) and often have some kind of traumatic history.  They might have tried different forms of therapy - some helped, others didn't, but nothing really has hit the spot yet. They are looking for a more profound form of understanding what is going on for them. And then some clear guidance on how to improve things.

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Understanding never is only a cognitive process, it includes the body. We understand things with our heart and guts, not just with our cortex. And change often has to happen on a visceral level. I call this 'rebooting the auto-pilot'. This process is highly individualised and bespoke but my work is always guided and informed by cutting-edge knowledge in psychotherapy.

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Sometimes change can be surprisingly quick: EMDR, The Flash Technique, CBT and emotion-focused therapy (EFT) offer a vast variety on evidence-based interventions and a very common-sense way of looking at problems. Sometimes it demands more patience to identify blockages. Or we might start working on certain symptoms that make daily life stressful and continuously lower your self-esteem. Often it is important to quickly find effective skills that help to deal with the symptoms (e. g. panic attacks) and then to find out how those symptoms developed over time and what keeps them from simply disappearing. 

 

Often therapy is very much about being kinder to oneself, becoming more understanding and self-supportive.

 

And there are different therapy approaches for working on exactly the same thing: CBT usually works more directly with unhelpful thoughts and behaviours, while EFT brings up emotional processes and makes them available for change, and EMDR activates and changes neuronetworks.

 

My experience is that a combination of approaches works the best.

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