Dr Anthony Leyland
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About me
I am a Psychodynamic Psychotherapist with over a decade of clinical experience. I draw on a background of working in the NHS and university mental health services to help the people I work with to talk about and find a way through a wide range of emotional and relationship problems.
With its origins in Psychoanalysis, contemporary Psychodynamic Psychotherapy is supported by substantial research evidence (see below).*
Psychodynamic psychotherapy, at its most fundamental, is focused on helping you to:
- see yourself more clearly and understand yourself better
- get beneath the surface-level problems to the roots of your difficulties
- make use of this information to inform changes in how you relate to yourself and others in the here and now
I am registered with the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC), one of the principal national psychotherapy training and registering bodies. This means that you can be confident that I have had a long and rigorous training (four years of study and assessed clinical practice, plus many years of personal psychotherapy), and that I am committed to working within a robust code of ethics.
I work with adults (18 years and over) from many different walks of life.
My style of working is supportive, respectful and collaborative.
My practice is located in private, comfortable therapy rooms in Wilton (near Salisbury, Wiltshire) and also Southampton (adjacent to Southampton University, Highfield campus).
Please contact me to arrange an initial consultation.
*For more information, see: Shedler, J. (2010). The efficacy of psychodynamic psychotherapy. American Psychologist, 65(2), 98–109. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0018378
Training, qualifications & experience
Training and Model of Practice
- Are there things about yourself that you would like to understand better?
- Do you keep repeating the same difficult experiences and relationship issues?
- Are you caught up in negative and self-defeating patterns?
- Would you like to get a better idea of what might be at the root of your difficulties?
- If so, it’s possible that psychodynamic psychotherapy may be helpful for you…
Psychodynamic therapy aims to address not only the immediate symptoms that bring you into therapy, but also seek to help you discern, work through and gain more control over unconscious conflicts and patterns in how you think, feel and relate to yourself and other people.
The basis of our work together is free association – which involves you in telling me about what you are feeling or thinking and then together we will try to articulate and understand your psychology. The nature of the interaction between therapist and patient may in itself provide us with useful information - it can be a window into the sorts of issues you might experience with other people in your life.
Patients are supported and encouraged to face some of the thoughts and feelings that they might usually avoid; there is an emphasis on helping to identify, understand and address the ways in which habitual avoidance of difficult thoughts and feelings can be counterproductive, generating the very problems and symptoms that bring people to psychotherapy in the first place.
I do not offer guidance or advice, and I do not set homework tasks or impose targets – it is more a question of helping you to navigate through your own priorities and reach your own conclusions.
In this form of therapy, patients usually come once or twice-weekly, often, although not always, on a longer-term basis (not infrequently a year, sometimes more).
What sort of problems can Psychodynamic Therapy help with?
Psychodynamic psychotherapyis suitable for a wide range of common emotional and relationship problems. Psychodynamic therapy can be especially helpful where there are clear difficulties but not clear reasons for them.
In my experience, psychodynamic therapy is particularly suitable for patients who:
- Find it helpful to speak about their difficulties, want to understand themselves better, value an exploratory approach, and have a desire for change
- Are willing and able to tolerate and sustain an emotional, time and financial commitment
- For those who prefer to learn more goal-directed strategies and techniques to manage their symptoms, it is possible that Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) would be a better fit.
Experience
My previous clinical experience – in addition to private practice:
- Senior Counsellor in NHS primary care
- Honorary Psychotherapist in NHS secondary care
- Counsellor and Supervisor in Higher Education
- Counsellor and Supervisor in the Charity Sector
Work in Counselling and Psychotherapy Education:
• I work as an Academic Tutor and External Examiner for several organisations.
Qualifications
- BPC-Accredited Diploma in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
- Certificate in Psychodynamic Supervision
- BACP-Accredited Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling
- BA, MA, PhD in English Literature
I am currently undertaking additional advanced clinical training in STPP (Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy).
I undertake regular and appropriate CPD.
Member organisations
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.
The British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) is a professional association, representing the profession of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
The organisation is itself made up of fourteen member organisations and BPC accredits the trainings of its member organisations. An individual who qualifies from one of these trainings is then eligible for entry into the BPC's register.
BPC registrants are governed by a code of ethics, a policy of continuing professional development, a statement on confidentiality and a complaints procedure. The BPC is a Member Society of the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Public Sector (EFPP). Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Accredited register membership
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
Therapies offered
Fees
£65.00 per session
Additional information
My standard fee is £65 per session (50 minutes).
When I work
All appointments are on weekdays, within office hours.
Further information
To arrange an appointment, please use the "Email" button on this site.
I respond to messages as soon as possible. This is usually within 24 hours (on week days) but occasionally may be longer if I am out of town, or during holiday periods.
