Gavin Williams, Psychodynamic Psychotherapist & Counsellor
About me
During Talking Therapy and Counselling sessions with individuals and couples clients become empowered, by understanding themselves and their 'trigger points' better.
I encourage you to speak about your personal experiences, including the present day and your childhood too, in complete confidence. Talking about and exploring your relationships, and the character you find yourself in at home and at work.
Focused conversation aims to help you understand your involvement in relationships and offers you the opportunity to transform your part in these relationships.
Since 1996 I have been assisting individuals and couples to cope with anxiety, bullying, depression, incest, addictions, anger, obsessive-compulsive, paranoia, worries, emotions, sexuality, paedophilia and internet pornography.
By speaking about your feelings of being abandoned, adopted, anxious, abused, bullied, depressed, divorced, stressed, or concerning low self-esteem or lack of confidence, the individual can become transformed from feeling overwhelmed or feeling panic, to becoming more empowered and assertive.
This approach offers an objective, non-judgemental understanding to your involvement of life experiences, such as questioning your sexuality, falling in love, engaged to be married, divorce, conception, miscarriage.
I am committed to a Code of Ethics: dedicated to social diversity without discrimination, and is sensitive to issues of body image, psychosomatic, gender, ethnicity, colour, culture, lifestyle, beliefs, sexual orientation, homosexuality, bi-sexuality, questioning, lesbianism, heterosexuality, transgender, age and disability.
Training, qualifications & experience
Established Practice: 1996.
Psychodynamic Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
M.A. Psychoanalytic Studies.
M.Phil. Psychoanalysis.
Post Graduate Diploma in Short-term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Senior Accredited Member: BACP -
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Psychodynamic & Integrative Supervision
Member organisations
Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
BACP is one of the UK’s largest professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy. Therapists registered with the Association fall into a number of different membership categories such as Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP and Registered Member MBACP (Accred), each standing for different levels of training and experience. MBACP (Accred) and MBACP (Snr Accred) members have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by the Association.
Registered members can be found on the BACP Register, which was the first register to achieve Accredited Voluntary Register status issued by the Professional Standards Authority. Individual Members will have completed an appropriate counselling and/or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but will not appear on the BACP Register until they've progressed to Registered Member MBACP status.
All members are bound by a Code of Ethics & Practice and a Complaints Procedure. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Accredited register membership
Accredited Register Scheme
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Face-to-face Psychodynamic Therapy and Counselling for individuals and Couples.
Topics covered: Abuse, Adoption, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), AIDS, Anger Management, Anorexia, Bulimia, Childhood sexual abuse, Couples, Critical Mother, Cross-dressing, Depression, Divorce, Domestic violence, Exhibitionism, Father abandonment, Fetishism, Kink, Incest, IBS, Institutionalised sexual abuse, Internet pornography, Lesbian or Gay issues, Magical thinking, Marriage, Masturbation, Mobile addiction, Narcissism, Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD,) Internet Paedophilia, Premature Ejaculation, Psychosomatic conversion, PTSD, Racial discrimination, Rape, S&M, Sexual abuse, Sexual Orientation, Transvestite, Trauma, Work-related bullying.
Client catchment area: Balham, Beckenham, Blackfriars, Bromley, Canary Wharf, Catford, Clock House, Croydon, Crystal Palace, Downham, Dulwich, East Dulwich, East Finchley, Eden Park, Elephant and Castle, Elmers End, Eltham, Finchley, Forest Hill, Hayes, Hither Green, Keston, Lewisham, Ladywell, London Bridge, Lower Sydenham, New Beckenham, New Cross, Norwood, Orpington, Purley, Sevenoaks, Sidcup, St Johns, South Norwood, Sydenham, West Dulwich, West Wickham, Waterloo,
N2, SE3, SE4, SE5, SE6, SE9, SE12, SE13, SE14, SE19, SE20, SE21, SE22, SE23, SE25, SE26, SW1, SW2, CR0, CR1, CR4, CR7, BR1, BR3, BR7
Therapies offered
Fees
Therapy sessions - per therapeutic hour, face-to-face, or telephone.
£50 for couples
£40 for individual
£40 for clinical supervision
Further information
Specialities:
Adults of Divorced Parents, Divorcing Parents.
Has your Father rejected you? Do you find that your Mother is critical?
Anxiety, Panic Attack, Chronic Fatigue.
Attachment, 4 different types of attachment.
Depression
Post-Natal Depression.
Post-Traumatic-Stress-Syndrome
Trauma
Sexual addiction
Masturbation
Internet Pornography.
OCD - Obsessional Compulsive Disorder.
Separation Anxiety
Sexual orientation, Bi-sexual, Homosexuality, Heterosexual, Lesbian, Questioning, Confused.
Pre-wedding, marriage and post-marriage relationships issues.
Monogamy, Polygamy, Infidelity, Divorce.
One-2-One, and Couples on-line counselling and psychotherapy.
Couples counselling and psychotherapy. Twins. Vanishing Twins.
Self-Harm, Non-suicidal self injury.
Following a sense of guilt for owning wealth, a wife and mother leaves her husband and her two young children in their beautiful house in order to go and help the poor. The father remarries then dies, leaving the children with an unloving stepmother who throws them out.
If any part of this short story resonates with you, why not book some Talking Therapy sessions to explore aspects of your own anxieties?
