Marilyn Graham MSc. Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy, Counselling and Supervision

Counselling
Counselling is generally a shorter-term process which focuses on specific issues or events that have been afffecting your life. The therapist will help you to explore and gain a deeper understanding of the difficulty and confliicts to enable you to live more fully in the present and make the appropriate adjustments or changes in your life.

Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy is a more open-ended process which involves a more in depth work and exploration of our underlying fears, memories,fantasies and patterns of behaviour. With the help of the therapist, who listens and observes in a particular way, we can gradually come to understand some of our early experiences that may have shaped our patterns in relationships and working lives.
As we become more aware of old, unhelpful patterns and experience the feelings they stir up, it is possible to find more constructive ways of living and through this gain a stronger sense of inner fulfilment.

Couple counselling
The main focus in couple counselling is helping both partners to communicate constructively and to begin to develop a deeper understanding of each other. The therapist will help you both to explore the problems you have within the relationship and look at more constructive ways of dealing with the difficulties and conflicts. In this safe, supportive enviroment, it often becomes easier for you both to express to each other what has previously been hard to say. The outcome can often be a more conscious relationship where both partners are more aware of the dynamics between them and have learnt more effective communication skills.

Supervision
I am a UKCP registered psychotherapist with over eighteen years of clinical experience. I have been supervising in private practice for the past ten years and also in my work for the NHS and various counselling organisations.I have an integrative approach to supervision which includes both humanistic(Gestalt and person centred) and psychodynamic models.
I support supervisees in developing their own individual style and assist them to identify their strengths as a practitioner.

If you would like to talk to me about psychotherapy, counselling/couple counselling or supervision, please phone me on:
02087551029
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