Dr Maria Falzon
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About me
You might contact me after deciding that you can’t carry on in the same way. You might have tried to manage your life by putting something, probably painful, to the back of your mind and ignoring it. Maybe you did this so well that you lost sight of it — it became unconscious, but this comes at a price. You might be left with a feeling of being less than you could be.
Initially I would offer you a consultation over one or more meetings. If we decide to work together, I would invite you to talk about whatever comes to mind, including how you feel about me.
As we think together, we will find meaning and patterns in how you think about yourself and how you experience other people relating to you. We will work to build a map of your internal world to understand those patterns you’ve been stuck with. This understanding is freeing and can help you to live your life more fully.
Who can benefit:
Someone who is in the aftermath of a traumatic experience may need a few sessions to talk through their experience.
Someone who is experiencing self-sabotaging thoughts, feelings and behaviours that they feel stuck with – such a person might understand their difficulties through longer-term psychotherapy. They can develop a different way of reflecting about their experiences, so that they can get unstuck and discover more creative, fulfilling ways of living.
Someone who is depressed, who has a particular difficulty they have identified in their relationships, can benefit from sixteen sessions of Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy.
Sometimes a person can gain enough from an extended consultation. This can help the person to consider their difficulties from a more compassionate, nuanced, self-caring perspective.
Training, qualifications & experience
- In NHS Psychiatry for over twenty-five years, including seventeen years as a Consultant in General Adult Psychiatry.
- Trained with and taught at The Scottish Institute of Human Relations.
Accredited practitioner in Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy. - Led, co-delivered and supervised an NHS psychotherapy service using Mentalisation-Based Therapy (MBT) for individuals suffering from borderline personality disorder.
- Trained in supervision and reflective practice with The Balint Society and with the Centre for Supervision and Team Development (London).
- Devised and delivered psychodynamically-informed teaching and group supervision on “Hard-to-Help” patients for ten years.
- Co-delivered eleven Mentalising Skills courses across the country as founder member of MBT Scotland.
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
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
Additional information
I offer an initial consultation during which we can think together about what kind of help might best suit your needs, including considering if you may need to seek therapy with someone else, or if you need some other kind of help from a health professional.
All meetings are for fifty minutes, with regular sessions usually offered once weekly to start with, increasing to twice-weekly if needed.
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Further information
Member of or associated with:
- The British Psychoanalytic Council
- Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Public Sector
- The General Medical Council
- The Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Association for Psychodynamic Practice and Counselling in Organisational Settings
- Practitioner in Mentalisation-Based Therapy (MBT)
- Founder member of MBT Scotland
- Accredited Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy Practitioner
- The Balint Society
- Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society
