Bert-Jan Zuiderduin

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(MSc, MBACP, BPC, Assoc IGA)
Available for new clients
Available for new clients

This professional is available for new clients.

London, SW11 2DS
Available for new clients
Available for new clients

This professional is available for new clients.

About me

I offer a compassionate and confidential space, where people can feel safe to explore difficulties in their life and relationships, in a way that is accepting and non-judgmental.

Over more than a decade, I have worked successfully with a wide variety of clients, supporting them through difficult times by helping them to express and understand their thoughts and feelings, transform the relationship with themselves and others, and live their lives more confidently. 

Having an interest in unconscious meanings and processes, I integrate psychoanalytic and Jungian approaches in an open and creative way, for instance, when working with dreams, personal or interpersonal experiences.

In addition to work with the unconscious, external relationships and the influences from the past or deeper unconscious that shape our "internal world", I am particularly interested in the different "parts" (or sub-personalities) that each of us have within ourselves, born from identifications with important figures in our lives or as  responses to powerful life events. In my experience, these parts are mostly protective but they may have unintentionally become stuck.

Key to my work is to "listen" with deep empathy to what different parts you are bringing up in our session and to help create some coherence, some dialogue between them.

I offer sessions in person and via Zoom or Skype. 

 *Spaces are currently available for 3-times weekly sessions at a reduced rate.*

Training, qualifications & experience

I am a qualified and experienced psychodynamic counsellor and psychotherapist (MSc) and a registered member of the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) and the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP). I am also an associate member of the Institute of Group Analysis (IGA).

I work with individuals in private practice and as a group therapist for Room to Heal, a charity that uses the power of community to support people who have experienced torture and organised violence to rebuild their lives in exile.

I have specialised experience of working with refugees and I work in an LGBTQ+ affirmative way.

Member organisations

BACP
British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP)

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Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training.

All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.

Accredited register membership

British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
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British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy

Other areas of counselling I deal with

  • Developmental Trauma
  • Adult Onset Trauma
  • Complex Trauma
  • Psychosomatic illness

Fees

£70.00 - £105.00

Concessions offered for

  • Refugees

Additional information

Regular weekly sessions are offered at a sliding scale starting from £65. I am occasionally able to offer a reduced rate (concession).

When I work

 Currently, I have regular times available on Saturdays.

Further information

After our initial contact, I will arrange for a first session, which will be an opportunity for you to bring up any issues you want help with. I will ask some questions to get to know you better, while you can form an idea of how I could help you and what the therapy will be like. When we agree to work together for a brief number of sessions or for a longer period of time, these sessions are held for 50 minutes at a regular time every week.

57a Latchmere Road, London, SW11 2DS

Type of session

In person
Online
Phone

Types of client

Adults
Older adults
Groups

Key details

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Additional languages

Dutch

Online platforms

Skype
Zoom
Bert-Jan Zuiderduin
Bert-Jan Zuiderduin