HEATHPRACTICE
On not quite knowing what troubles us.
There are moments when life becomes really troubling, even painful. We can find ourselves confronted by unforeseen challenges or caught in familiar patterns; burdened by anxiety or depression, or experiencing unwelcome feelings we cannot quite explain.
Psychotherapy offers an opportunity to become curious about these experiences and what they might be communicating about our internal worlds. By exploring the less familiar aspects of ourselves, we can begin to understand how our histories shape our reactions and perhaps discover possibilities for living and relating differently.
How can psychotherapy help?
As a therapist, I am fascinated by how our early experiences influence how we perceive the world. How we come to know what we know - and feel. How historic patterns of relating present themselves in our relationships - how they repeat and how they can give rise to symptoms such as anxiety and depression.
Psychotherapy offers a particular kind of encounter: a place where thoughts need not be organised, feelings hurried away or uncertainties quickly resolved. Within an attentive, confidential and non-judgemental conversation, we can begin to approach those aspects of our inner lives that remain just beyond awareness, and consider how earlier experiences continue to find expression in our every day lives.
What I can help you with.
I work with people from a wide range of backgrounds, each arriving with their own particular difficulties, questions and ways of making sense of life.
Perhaps something has unsettled you: the end of a relationship, a disappointment at work, difficulties with intimacy, or patterns around food, alcohol or drugs that seem to have acquired a life of their own. Or perhaps what troubles you is harder to name: a dissatisfaction with how things are, questions about who you are, or a feeling that something is missing, despite having much to be grateful for.
Whatever brings you here, our work begins with taking your experience seriously. Together, we can become curious about what lies beneath the difficulties you recognise, including the relationships, feelings and unconscious conflicts that may have shaped how you see yourself and others. Sometimes what seems like a problem to be resolved has something important to tell us about the life we are living.
Ensuring confidentiality is an essential requirement of psychotherapy. I work with adults from all walks of life. People with creative and professional backgrounds; those in and out of the public eye. I am also approached by parents concerned about teenage children negotiating the uncertainties of friendship, school, identity and growing up.
Individual psychotherapy.
I offer individual psychotherapy as a space to think carefully about your emotional life. I welcome all enquires, so please do get in touch. If for whatever reason we are unable to find accommodation, I can help you with a referral.
Fees begin at £90 | 50 minutes, weekly
Please do ask about reduced fees. These are granted by negotiation, for those on low incomes, in training, etc.
Couples work.
I see couples therapy as a collaboration in which we come to know ourselves through each other. Beneath what is spoken, patterns of belonging, desire and inimacy begin to emerge—sometimes revealing parts of ourselves that are difficult to encounter.
Fees begin at £140 | 1hr 30 minutes
Please do, get in touch.
Thinking about speaking to someone can feel daunting. Finally making contact is usually a relief.
I am an experienced psychodynamic counsellor & psychotherapist accredited to the BACP. I've worked and volunteered in the field of mental health for over a decade. In crisis work, with the homeless - and in various settings.
I enjoy working with adults, young people and couples, from comfortable offices in London Bridge & Stamford, Rutland.
Online therapy.
I have also been working extensively online since 2020. The vast majority of people who come to me for help, appreciate how convenient online therapy is for them.
They don’t have to travel to someone’s office or house and can incorporate it into the working week, when an in-person session simply wouldn’t be feasible. The evidence suggests that working online makes no difference to whether you’ll find our work beneficial.
My room and technical set-up means that sessions are as close to an in-person experience as possible.
FAMILY ISSUES | ANXIETY | DEPRESSION | CONFIDENCE | OCD | CLINICAL DISORDERS | RELATIONSHIP PROBLEMS | INTIMACY | LIVING WITH ADHD | TEEN PROBLEMS | GAD | SELF-ESTEEM | SEXUALITY | IDENTITY PROBLEMS
TYPES OF PROBLEMS
Research consistently demonstrates that psychotherapy can be highly effective with approximately 75% of people showing some improved emotional and psychological benefit (APA) . "A strong therapeutic relationship is often described as the "bedrock" of successful treatment." "2026 research results consistently indicate that online therapy is as effective as in-person therapy for treating common mental health conditions.
(Credit to Modern Wisdon and Jonathan Shedler)
If you are considering therapy, you are welcome to get in touch. Beginning therapy can feel significant - but it need not feel overwhelming. Book an Initial Consultation or Email: Dan@heathpractice.co.uk
Contact me
If you’re interested in psychodynamic psychotherapy or have questions, I offer a FREE 15-minute introductory telephone call.
Complete this form with a few details and I will get back to you within 48 hours.
Email: dan@heathpractice.co.uk
Phone: 07779 142 388
Next steps...
Before we meet for the first time I will send you a letter confirming the time, cost and some other details. It is important that you read this letter and my standard contract terms here.
I will be expecting to build a picture of your life which together we can work with. This session is a consultation. Subsequent sessions may also become consultations and this will depend on the nature of what you bring and how long I would expect the psychotherapy to take. If for instance your concern is of a 'complex' nature we may require several consultations before we can decide if working together will be helpful.
If you are happy for me to do so I will take some notes and develop a case formulation for the problems you'd like to work on. If this goes well, we can agree to meet again.
During these first few sessions we will begin to establish some goals and consider how long we think working on these goals might take us?
It may be that we choose to work on a specific concern and agree a contract term.
Or we might agree to see what develops over an undefined number of sessions (open-ended).
We will hopefully begin to develop a rapport (or what therapists refer to as a working alliance).
We can then reflect on how we work together independently, and as a pair.
I might remark on what you choose to talk about and how you understand me, in this conxtext. That is to say, I might notice what you bring to me specifically and make suggestions as to what this "way of being" with me, might be about?
Moving together through the process - week by week - initial anxieties about the therapy should hopefull begin to settle.
We can then begin to consider how life could be different and how this process of change might occur.