Penny Sutton
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This professional is available for new clients.
About me
I am an ISTDP therapist. This is an intensive therapy created by Dr Habib Davanloo and Dr David Malan who researched the approach by analysing video recordings of many clients. More on the research behind it can be found at https://www.istdp.org.uk/research/
ISTDP works at a profoundly experiential level as therapist and client work together to experience warded off feelings in a new way and it is this direct experience of being you that can be transformational where you haven’t had that contact with yourself, your feelings before.
We are all a product of our up bringing and how we adapted at a young age enabled us to survive but as an adult our adaptations can be self-defeating and largely outside our awareness. Feelings that are important can get muted or lost in the process of surviving difficult situations and we can lose our all important connection to ourselves. We can get stuck re-living parts of the past instead of finding out who we are and what we need now.
I offer an initial free 15-minute consultation so you can get a flavour of how I work- this allows you and me to see whether we could work together. You will find that I pay loving careful attention to you moment by moment in our sessions together and my aim is for us to collaborate on paying loving careful attention to you to counteract the ways in which you have forgotten yourself, your feelings and your needs.
If you decide to go ahead we would have an initial two hour session, either online or face to face. I am based in Derby, UK. This will give you the opportunity to fully experience ISTDP therapy.
This could be followed up by sessions of your choosing in terms of length. I recommend weekly or fortnightly sessions to begin with in order not to lose momentum towards your goals and establishing our relationship.
Training, qualifications & experience
- MSc Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy
- Sherwood Psychotherapy Training Institute
- Nottingham
- Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy-Core Training
- ISTDP-UK, London and Bristol.
Member organisations
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Accredited register membership
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£75.00 per session
Additional information
I can offer a reduced fee in certain circumstances.
Further information
Think about what it is you want to change: therapy is dynamic and you have the opportunity to change how you are with yourself and with others. It’s exciting but you do need to be prepared to invest some time and money in order to do this. I can offer brief or longer term working.
Sometimes people come to therapy with really clear ideas about what they want from it and sometimes what they want emerges in therapy.
I work with:
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Trauma
- Loss
- Grief
- Relationship Issues
- Anger Management Problems
- Loneliness
- Medically Unexplained Symptoms
- Family or Work Related Problems
- Emotional Eating
