Catherine van Maanen Therapy

About

Hello!

My approach to therapy is creative, fresh and dynamic. I work collaboratively with clients and tailor my approach to meet their specific needs and to meet who they are as a person. My core integration is humanistic and relational psychodynamic. I also draw on attachment theory to help me to understand where you have been and how you relate to those around you (including yourself!), whilst still acknowledging that you are the expert on you and giving you the space to explore in the way you want to. I also encourage integrating the somatic bodily experience and mind in my exploration as I believe this is crucial to our holistic understanding of ourselves, and I keep updating my practice as new understanding evolves.

I am down-to-earth and a little bit of a grandma at heart ... I believe that the relationship between therapist and client should be nourishing in a similar way to the desired impacts of a Werthers original from said grandmothers!

In other words, I provide an empathetic, warm, comforting and non-judgemental space to process and hold your lived experiences and to provide a space to be fully yourself, to share your secrets safely, to challenge you along the way, and to help you on your lifelong journey to self-understanding and a life worth living.

I work from Buckhurst Hill, Holborn, and online.

Experience:

I have experience working with long-term clients experiencing compulsions, anxiety, depression, childhood trauma, eating disorders, sudden bereavement and loss, difficult thoughts, reflecting on challenging behaviours, lifestyle changes, sexuality and identity in particular. My own experience with neurodivergence has helped me to understand the stigma that can still be found in both the medical industry as well as in our interpersonal relationships. I am also donor-conceived person aware, and aware of the stigmas and some particular areas of struggle here.

Qualifications:

Qualified member of the BACP.

MA Psychotherapy and Counselling, Regent's University London (year 3, Integrative pathway.
Year 2 equivalent of PGDip in Psychotherapy and Counselling, Regent's University London. Year 1 equivalent of PGCert Psychotherapy and Counselling, Regent's University London.

Foundation Certificate in Psychotherapy and Counselling from Regent's University London.

BA(Hons) Media and English Literature (graduated in 2017).

Other notable experience:

2 years of training in Existential, Psychodynamic and Humanistic therapy at Regent's University London.

CPD completed on 'Working with Suicidality in the Helping Professions' with The Training ComPenDium.

Experience working with clients of all genders 18+.

Experience working within a holistic therapy centre.

LGBTQIA+ safe

Listed as a trusted therapist on Donor Conceived UK (DCUK).

I am published in the official journal of the BACP, Therapy Today on the topic of working with donor conceived clients

Please do visit my website for more in depth information on how I work as well as more about the topics I cover.

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