Ryan Bennett-Clarke

Services provided:

- Individual Psychotherapy (Psychodynamic /Integrative)

- Clinical Supervision

About the therapist:

I hold an MSc in Integrative Psychotherapy from the Sherwood Psychotherapy Training Institute (SPTI) and am an accredited Integrative Psychotherapist with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP).

As of August 2018 I completed my Clinical Supervision training at The Sherwood Psychotherapy Training Institute and hold a Diploma in Clinical Supervision. I supervise both trainees and qualified psychotherapists.

I hold a BA Hons degree in Social Sciences: Psychology from Nottingham Trent University and hold a Post Graduate Diploma in Mental Health Nursing from the University of Nottingham: School of Nursing. I have also worked as a Registered Mental Health Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) at HM Prison Nottingham and within various NHS healthcare settings.

I have experience of providing counselling and psychotherapy to male, female and Trans clients (aged 18 and over) around the following issues:

• Abuse (sexual, physical, emotional, neglect)
• Addictive behaviours
• Anger
• Anxiety and panic
• Attachment difficulties
• Childhood difficulties
• Confidence and self-esteem
• Couples Psychotherapy
• Depression
• Domestic abuse
• Eating disorders
• Envy
• Gender
• Grief and loss
• HIV
• Identity
• Jealousy
• LGBT affirmative
• Male on male rape
• Personality difficulties
• Relational-Developmental Trauma
• Relationship difficulties
• Self-harm
• Sexual Abuse (Childhood and adult)
• Sexual difficulties
• Sexuality
• Survivors of harassment and stalking
• Stress
• Trauma.

It is important that the therapy that you engage with feels right for you and meets your needs. If at any point during therapy you feel that this is not the case, we can discuss this openly and explore other options that might feel more suitable. The most important thing is that you feel supported, comfortable, able and wiling to engage in a therapeutic relationship that best meets your needs.
 
As a therapist, I have a specialist interest in the area of Stalking and Envy and working with the psychological impact it has on its victims, as well as trauma work with survivors of abuse, HIV, Relational-Developmental Trauma, male sexuality, sexual difficulties and sex addiction, and Couples Psychotherapy. My model of psychotherapy is Integrative with a Psychodynamic core.

As a psychotherapist in private practice, I work Integratively with a Psychodynamic core, and have a specialist interest in the area of Stalking and Envy, and working with the psychological  aftermath it has had on victims/survivors in order to facilitate healing within the survivor.  I have two articles published in the Journal of Psychodynamic Practice in 2022 on this subject:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14753634.2022.2039880

and

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14753634.2022.2039881 

I have also featured in a Podcast series called "Conversations with Annalisa Barbieri" discussing psychotherapy related content e.g. Envy:

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/conversations-with-annalisa-barbieri/id1567190358?i=1000649146839 

I have extensive experience and CPD training  in the areas of trauma work with survivors of  childhood sexual abuse; male-on-male rape and sexual abuse; People living with HIV;  Sexuality and Gender; Boarding School survivors (male and female); Relational-Developmental Trauma;  Mindfulness  and Couples Psychotherapy.  

Cost of a regular therapy session and duration:

• £55 per individual Psychotherapy session.  Psychotherapy sessions will last for 50 minutes. It is important that therapy sessions begin at the agreed time and finish on time.
  
  
• Unfortunately no concessions are available for trainee counsellors or trainee psychotherapists at this time.
  
  
• £65 per supervisee for Clinical Supervision sessions lasting for 60 minutes (£97.50 for 90 minutes)
  
     * All sessions must be paid for on the day of therapy or in advance by either cash or Bank Transfer.

Cost and duration of the initial consultation:

• £75.  This session will last for 75 minutes, the reason for which is outlined below. This fee is to be paid on the day of the initial consultation.

It is important that you feel comfortable engaging in a therapeutic relationship that feels right for you and meets your needs. The initial consultation will last longer than an ordinary therapy session and will give both you and the therapist an opportunity to see if you can work constructively together. The session will consist of:

• Opportunities for you to articulate some of your main worries and concerns;
• A chance for you to explore what some of your hoped for goals for therapy are;
• An opportunity for the therapist to understand and explore any mental health history that you may have, your personal history, childhood experiences, family history, relationship history, and any other significant experiences that you have had throughout your life.

By obtaining as much information as possible in the initial consultation session, I aim to bring together some of the threads of your past and present experiences and therefore place your current difficulties within an historical context. The subsequent sessions will be somewhat less directive and will continue to provide a safe and flexible space for you and I to work together to explore and make sense of what is troubling you and to find self and healthy catharsis for your emotions and process.