Deborah Meyler

In psychoanalytic psychotherapy, the therapist and client look together at the circumstances and patterns that have brought the client to the point of coming for help. These can be events and relational issues that might have begun in earliest childhood, and seem insignificant, but over time can exert an effect that might send us off-course, like the pressure of sunlight on a spaceship. 

I think psychotherapy is exciting, but it can also be very difficult, because often a deeper understanding of what is wrong is painful. It might involve deciding to change actual circumstances, or finding a way to see things differently, and however much most of us profess to want to change, usually we don't really want to. 

The therapist's role is not to advise or judge, because we don't sit like sages with all the answers. Our role is to explore, with you, and see what we find. 

Psychoanalytic theory, for example the work of Freud, Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott and Jacques Lacan, underpins this kind of therapy, but it doesn't generally have an overt presence in the room. 

My fee for an initial session is £30, and for subsequent sessions it is £75. 

I offer concessions for people on low incomes. I have a limited number of concession places, but always ask. Likewise with availability: at the time of writing, 16th February, 2024, I have some availability: one space in Cottenham and one in Madingley Road. 

I suffer or am blessed with ADHD. I have to confirm changes to appointments in writing or I will forget them. I like to think I am broadly competent in other areas.