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Dr Atkinson

07305890303
[email protected]

Instant Availability please call before booking

Dr Atkinson’s has been a Dr of Pshychology in London for the past 6 years and her approach is integrative which is tailored to suit you as an individual person with unique needs. Dr Atkinson offers both longer-term individual psychotherapy for adults, whilst not forgetting shorter term clients also. Dr Atkinson is a fully qualified, accredited (HCPC, BPS) and experienced Clinical Psychologist. Dr Atkinson can help you explore the issues you are presenting with, but also helping you understand what is holding you back from leading a much more fuller life.

Dr Atikinson will generally use: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Schema Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing which is very good at helping treat post-traumatic stress, obsessive behaviours, panic attacks, phobias and to process past experiences such as childhood trauma and abuse etc…Mindfulness is used to learn to disengage from unhelpful thought patterns which often maintain depression and anxiety.

Pychodynamic Therapy.

While the term Psychodynamic therapy might seem intrusive, the solutions that it can provide you with are anything but. This is a form of therapy that is all about tapping into interpretation of our emotions. By looking into key aspects of psychology such as self-psychology, ego-psychology and object relation, it’s easy to see why Psychodynamic therapy is such a vital skill today.

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What is Psychodynamic therapy all about ?

At its core, Psychodynamic therapy is all about making sure the patient can work with a therapist to:

  • Take a closer look at their overall emotions, thoughts and feelings.
  • Valuate key early life experiences that makes it hard for you to take positive steps forward.
  • Provide greater insight into your life as well as the problems you face today.
  • Look closer at the problems that have developed over the medium-to-long-term.
    Seeing the recurring patterns in your life that causes you to feel stressed.
    Understand the path that needs to be taken to change these patterns.

Why psychodynamic therapy works?

For one, it allows us to tap further into our subconscious. This is uniquely powerful, helping you to unmask defensive traits about yourself. Then, you can work towards getting around this by speaking freely and openly about how you feel.

By being able to penetrate our most painful feelings, we can make it easier to resolve the defensive hold we always put up around that particular topic. This can help us to overcome our defensive side and become more open-minded.

The range of therapeutic solutions is vast, also. Some prefer to use the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Model, which looks at mental health. Others prefer the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, that looks to use mental health symptoms as a guide.

Others still appreciate musical therapy, which can be useful. It uses the exploration of musical instruments to develop a form of non-directive therapy that can help the patient to improvise and express their own thoughts via music.

Psychodynamic therapy, though, is always tailored to fit with the needs of the patient. It’s the kind of soothing solution that can help to bring someone who is fearful and anxious into a more open-minded way of thinking, with fantastic results. 

Dr Atkinson

07305890303
[email protected]

Instant Availability please call before booking

Dr Atkinson’s has been a Dr of Pshychology in London for the past 6 years and her approach is integrative which is tailored to suit you as an individual person with unique needs. Dr Atkinson offers both longer-term individual psychotherapy for adults, whilst not forgetting shorter term clients also. Dr Atkinson is a fully qualified, accredited (HCPC, BPS) and experienced Clinical Psychologist. Dr Atkinson can help you explore the issues you are presenting with, but also helping you understand what is holding you back from leading a much more fuller life.

Dr Atikinson will generally use: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Schema Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing which is very good at helping treat post-traumatic stress, obsessive behaviours, panic attacks, phobias and to process past experiences such as childhood trauma and abuse etc…Mindfulness is used to learn to disengage from unhelpful thought patterns which often maintain depression and anxiety.

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