About me
My name's Dan, I'm a qualified Psychodynamic counsellor. I'm only seeing adult clients (18+) online and offer long term counselling. Sessions run for 50 minutes.
Is there another voice in your head speaking to you about food and your body? Telling you that you're worthless? That you can't do anything right? This is how you'll always be? I've worked with issues around disordered eating/eating disorders; specifically bulimia and binge eating. It can feel incredibly isolating to have these sorts of issues. Not feeling able to speak to anyone or share. Feeling a constant shame around it and what you're experiencing? You are not alone in this. Achieving a healthy body image and food experience takes time. Exploring how you've been influenced and informed by others and possibly media will help to find and face these issues. A healthier relationship with food allows a healthier relationship with you.
Do you wonder what it is/means to be a man? How to express yourself as a man? What is masculinity? As a male therapist that has also gone through these questions, I know what this is like. Today's world is difficult to make sense of as a man at times. These issues are something you can explore with someone that understands. What outcomes do you want from this exploration? Feeling more comfortable in yourself? Better able to cope with what you feel like it is to be a man? Exploring issues around how you've been brought up in your childhood and what expectations have been put on you by others can help you become more comfortable with and within yourself.
Does it feel difficult for you to understand your partner? Or for your partner to understand you? Do you not feel good enough or like you aren't doing enough in your relationship? Is it difficult to understand why your partner feels that you aren't available or looking after them? Relationship issues are something else we can focus on. What does a relationship mean to you? Would you like to feel better able to ask for what you want in a relationship? Would you like to feel that you're partner understands you? These are outcomes we can work towards together by exploring your past relationships and what you've been thinking/believing is expected of you and your partner. It takes time to build trust with your partner and can take time to build trust with and for yourself.
Psychodynamic counselling is client lead and helps the individual to explore their past, present and their unconscious to see how repeating patterns develop and how they can affect the individual's life. We will work together to explore your issues and how your past may inform your present. I believe every client is unique and my style of therapy is to tailor it to the individual. I can work with many different issues.
Training, qualifications & experience
Qualifications:
- Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling
- Certificate in Working with Eating Disorders
- Certificate in Counselling Skills
- Psychology BSc
Training:
- Working Within Diversity
- Understanding and Working with Psychological Trauma
- Understanding and Working with Post Traumatic Stress Responses
- Understanding and Working with Traumatic Loss
- Understanding and Working with Sexual Trauma
Member organisations
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. 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
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
£35.00 - £50.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I understand times are tough so I also offer a concessionary rate for low-income clients.
Assessments are charged at £25 for an hour.
Further information
I've worked in palliative care, acute mental health services in the NHS and as a residential support worker with children, so have an understanding of different stages of mental health, both in age and severity.
