About me
About me
I’m Hannes, an Integrative Psychotherapist offering face to face therapy in Levenshulme, Manchester, with good transport links from Stockport and surrounding areas. I also work online across the UK.
You may be feeling stuck, disconnected from yourself, or uncertain about the direction your life is taking. Perhaps you are struggling in a relationship, finding yourself caught in familiar patterns, trying to make sense of a change or loss, or questioning something about yourself and your life.
Sometimes there isn’t a single problem to solve. You may simply have a sense that something in your life no longer feels quite right. We can look closely at what you are experiencing, how you have come to experience yourself and your relationships as you do, and what choices or possibilities may be available to you.
How I work
My practice is integrative, with an increasingly strong grounding in existential thinking. My training draws particularly on humanistic and person centred practice, phenomenological enquiry and psychodynamic thinking.
Existential ideas influence the kinds of questions I am interested in exploring with you. These might concern relationships and intimacy, identity and belonging, uncertainty and choice, loss and limitation, or questions about meaning and how you want to live.
My starting point is your experience rather than a predetermined explanation of what is wrong. I am interested in understanding a difficulty within the wider context of your life, including your relationships, history and the social world in which you live.
I work relationally and pay attention to what happens between us as we get to know one another. Familiar ways of relating can sometimes emerge within therapy. When they do, they can give us an opportunity to understand something about what you have come to expect from other people, how you protect yourself, and what happens when you allow yourself to be known.
I don’t work from a set of fixed techniques or assume that therapy should be about removing symptoms as quickly as possible. There may be good reasons why particular ways of coping or relating developed. We can become curious about those reasons while also considering whether those ways of living still fit with the life you want now.
What I work with
People come to me with a wide range of experiences, including anxiety, depression and low mood, relationship difficulties, trauma, grief and loss, loneliness, identity and sexuality, and periods of change or uncertainty.
A significant part of my work concerns relationships and the difficulties that can arise around closeness, rejection, abandonment, dependence, autonomy and intimacy. I also work with people questioning the direction of their lives, or finding that a life which appears fine from the outside does not feel satisfying to them.
Our experiences are also shaped by the world around us. I am attentive to the effects of discrimination, marginalisation and inequality, and committed to anti racist and anti oppressive practice. I welcome LGBTQ+ clients and am open to thinking together about how identity and differences between us may also become relevant within therapy.
Sessions
Sessions last 50 minutes and usually take place weekly at the same time. I work both short term and open ended, depending on what brings you to therapy and how the work develops.
I offer face to face psychotherapy from my private therapy room in Levenshulme, South Manchester, as well as online sessions across the UK.
The first session gives us an opportunity to begin exploring what has brought you to therapy and to get some sense of what it is like to work together.
Training, qualifications & experience
I hold a Postgraduate Diploma with Distinction in Integrative Psychotherapy and am a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
Before training as a psychotherapist, I originally trained in social work. My work and life since then have brought me into contact with people from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences, both in the UK and elsewhere. More recently, I have spent several years working therapeutically with adults and young people alongside developing my private practice.
My psychotherapy training is integrative, drawing particularly on humanistic, person centred and psychodynamic traditions. Existential and phenomenological thinking have become increasingly important influences on how I understand and practise psychotherapy, and I continue to develop this through reading, training and professional development.
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
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Fees
£65.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I can consider a reduced fee for students and others for whom cost is a barrier. I have a limited number of lower cost spaces, which may be offered for an agreed period of time. We can discuss this during an initial consultation.
When I work
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Further information
Sessions are 50 minutes and usually take place weekly, though if you require flexibility and more frequent, or fortnightly sessions, we can discuss the therapeutic benefit of this.
I offer a free 20 minute consultation via phone or video call. Please let me know whether you have a preference when booking a consultation.
In person sessions are my office at Levenshulme Antiques Village, 961 Stockport Rd.
