Penwith Psychotherapy

About

I am a psychotherapist working out of St Ives and Penzance.

Why seek Psychotherapy?
It might be that there comes points in our lives when everything we hold dear, believe in, love seems no longer to be there for us or make sense. All meaning is stripped away. For others, coping strategies that have worked such as throwing themselves in to work, self-medicating with  alcohol or drugs, OCD,  or self harm for example, are no longer helping to avoid intense emotional pain.
21st Century ‘hyper-connected, superfast’ digital life puts pressure on us as we are expected through social media such as Facebook, Twitter etc. to bare our souls to all without the time to really think things through. We have never been so connected by the push of a button to so many ‘friends’ yet for many nor have we ever been so alone. Here in West Cornwall we live in a beautiful but very isolated rural area. The expectation that we must be ‘living the dream’ can become a pressure that makes little sense if your life is not ‘a beach’ and you are broadsided by deep emotional turmoil.
My training is psychoanalytical which, put simply, means that through allowing yourself the time and space to unfold, we can try to make connections with the difficulties you are experiencing now and possible patterns from the past. It can be a tough and unsettling process but a deeper understanding of how and why we behave the way we do equips us better to cope with the uncertainty of life.  It can help us to move on from feeling ‘stuck’ in a cycle of repetition and regain meaning in our lives.

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