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Some of the things I can talk about with you are:

• Relationships, marriage, divorce and reconciliation


• Depression - including postnatal and menopause


• Trauma and all forms of anxiety


• Infertility issues and pregnancy: Mothers and babies


• Parenting


• ...and of course many other issues that worry people

Insight Oriented Therapy may seem like an unfamiliar word to many people, but it is simply a method of talk therapy which tries to look at thoughts, and feelings, that you may not be aware of. I call it the “unconscious”, the deep down stuff that tends to get us into trouble. Therapy is a process to help resolve complex problems, which may have originated in childhood or later, when a trauma of some type, occurred. You begin to take a gentle challenging look at yourself and your behaviors. A clearer picture of who you are may develop and hence ,a greater insight about what you want from life, a type of wisdom. Sometimes when the going gets tough people may want to leave therapy. Generally, this is just when they should continue to stay. A process that doesn’t involve some pain is not within the context of Insight Oriented Therapy which some people call the "there there" technique.

One cannot predict how long therapy may take. Some people come for one or a few sessions, and others for six months or some years. We decide together, but usually, I suggest an open-ended time agreement, which allows you to leave when you feel you are ready. Then, you are not put under the pressure of a set time. Sometime people like to come more than once a week, which provides more continuity and can result in a faster process.