Peggy Anyfantaki
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About me
I am a Psychodynamic Psychotherapist working with adults who may struggle with the impact of traumatic childhood/life experiences, depression, anxiety, personality difficulties and relationship issues.
I am registered with the British Psychoanalytic Council and the Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists. Alongside my private practice, I am currently employed in the NHS as an Adult Psychodynamic Psychotherapist.
If you are looking for help with emotional and relationship difficulties, psychotherapy can help you to explore your current difficulties and to understand those in the context of your life. Therapy can help you to identify destructive patterns in relationships and to see how these are rooted in the past and explore the unconscious dynamics behind them. Through this process, new ways of relating in your personal life can be developed.
Psychodynamic psychotherapy is a unique practice of listening to the unconscious undertones of life: what one wants, and what gets in the way of achieving it. As a tool to understand what ones body and mind is communicating through anxiety, repetitive patterns, psychodynamic psychotherapy can build links and bring to the foreground what has been kept hidden or repressed. By understanding the function and survival mechanism of ones defenses, and by connecting free-associative speech to desires, new choices can be given as to what one wants to hold on to, and what can let go of.
If you are interested to begin therapy, you can contact me to make an appointment. If you choose to go ahead, you will be offered an initial consultation. This is usually 50 minutes over two, sometimes three sessions and provides an opportunity to discuss your thoughts and ideas about why you are seeking help. This is an opportunity for us to reflect on the difficulties that bring you to consider psychotherapy, to describe your personal history and relationships, and to consider whether this approach could be helpful to you.
Psychotherapy can vary in frequency with the number of sessions per week ranging from once or twice a week.
Please note that I aim to respond to your call/email promptly, usually within 24 hours, unless I am on leave.
Training, qualifications & experience
Professional Qualification in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (4-year BPC accredited training with Tavistock&Portman)
MSc Foundations of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Clinical Supervisor Training
PgDip Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
MSc Psychology
BA Social Work
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).
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£75.00 per session
When I work
Most of my work is conducted online.
