Richard Kaye

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All my clients tell me that I am remarkably different from other counselors or psychotherapists that they have seen. I think this is because of the intensity of my engagement, my imagination, enthusiasm and knowledge and my expertise and experience working with dreams and the unconscious, which is rare to find, and that when blended with an understanding of attachment theory and complex trauma therapy, become extremely powerful tools for psychological healing and personal growth.

I use empathy and honesty to try my best to really understand who you are and what it feels like to be you. 

This forms a basis of trust and understanding which are the foundations of our work together.

Together we can explore your past and present, your family, childhood and relationships, your dreams and your unconscious to better understand patterns of feeling, thinking and behaving, how they fit together in yourself and in others, how this can affect your life and what you can do about it. 

I work with the whole person, and I bring the whole of who I am to the work too. Working with me will never feel like a box ticking exercise.

My three main ways of working are Jungian Dream Work, Attachment-Based Psychotherapy and Complex Trauma Therapy and I fuse those to provide a multifaceted but coherent picture of who you are and to help you to identify, strengthen, and draw on the resources you have both consciously and unconsciously.

I also use ideas and techniques from person-centred counselling, mentalization-based therapy, mindfulness, cognitive therapy, existential therapy, art and play based therapy including sand play, and psychoanalysis. 

I work with all kinds of adults at all stages of life, from young people just starting out on their journey to greater independence, to older people, nearer my own age, taking the time to heal old wounds, reclaim lost or forgotten parts of the self, release repressed energies, and find new meaning and purpose in life.

Jungian dream work is powerful and effective for a wide range of people but it is particularly suited to those in the second half of life, who have achieved what was expected of them, socially, family-wise and professionally, but nevertheless feel unfulfilled and lacking meaning and life purpose. Dreams, when skillfully interpreted in a collaborative effort between us, can identify lost parts of the self that were put aside, perhaps in childhood, perhaps later, and point the way to how they can be reclaimed. Integrating these lost parts of self is a process of discovery of deep personal meaning. By bringing these forgotten parts back from the unconscious into consciousness, you become more complete, more whole, more in control of yourself, more fulfilled and more in touch with your life's personal meaning and purpose.

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will rule your life and you will call it fate." Carl Gustav Jung

"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind." Sigmund Freud

I work with individuals of all gender and sexuality.

I am especially happy to welcome neurodivergent people and people with physical difference and/or disability.

I have worked with many first and second-generation British people whose experience spans different cultural norms.

I also have an interest, some expertise and significant personal experience related to institutional discrimination and epistemic abuse (being silenced, excluded and having your perspective devalued, ignored or distorted), especially in social care and mental health care. I use the Power, Threat, Meaning Framework from the clinical division of the British Psychological Society to understand how the misuse of power creates and perpetuates mental distress of all kinds. 

I am a registered member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists.

Perhaps you feel unable to be yourself with others? Feeling overwhelmed with emotions you don’t understand? Weighed down by past events? Locked into a cycle of toxic relationships? Unable to recover from an overwhelming loss? Struggling with patterns of feeling and behaviour related to childhood and family? Perhaps you are disabled, neurodivergent, on the autism spectrum and have found yourself in a world that does not seem to have been made with you in mind?  Or maybe you've achieved what you thought you were striving for in life - family, career, success - but you find yourself still searching for meaning and purpose.

My aim is to empower you to be more of who you are and to be free.

Complex Trauma - this is a kind of trauma that develops not from a single sudden incident but from difficult relationships usually over many years, in the family and during childhood that affects the adult.

Jungian Dream Based Positive Psychology - find meaning and purpose in life.

Initial 30-60 minute phone call: £0

STANDARD PRICING
Face-To-Face - I am not currently taking on face-to-face clients
Zoom or Telephone Sessions: £60 per session (new clients welcome now)

CONCESSIONARY PRICING - ONLY 1 PLACE LEFT
In all cases within these client groups concessions depend on your assessment of your ability to pay. My minimum charge per session is £40.

Special Groups £40

• Carers of all Kinds
• Students
• Unemployed or Low Wage
• Refugees

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