Visited the excellent new exhibition “Women and Freud: Patients, Pioneers, Artists” at the @freudmuseum this weekend. It was an absolute pleasure to traverse through some provoking and honest pieces that encapsulate some of the complexities of the intersections between psychoanalysis and femininity • #psychoanalysis #freud #femininity #feminism #sigmundfreud #freudmuseum #london #art #exhibition

New book delivery! • Understanding the individual as part of a system (family, society, workplace, etc.) can help illuminate things that don’t make sense when we isolate the person in their individuality. Dynamics, inherited rules, inhibitions, introjects, languages and rituals are often systemic in nature and need to be contextualised as such in order to change. • #familytherapy #grouptherapy #systemicfamilytherapy #grouprelations #psychotherapy #psychoanalysis #grouppsychotherapy #families #attachment #newbooks

In his collection of essays “On Giving Up”, Adam Phillips asks us “how do you feel alive, and how do you know you feel it?”- notice he is not asking “what makes you feel alive?” and instructing us to do more of that thing. He is pointing to the fact that aliveness is a sense within us that, if cultivated, we can access during any activity or engagement. • #psychoanalysis #aliveness #ambivalence #adamphillips #ongivingup #psychoanalytic

I’m taking on new clients! • My new office is in Colchester city centre, and I have some availability to work online. If you’re interested, go to my website (link in bio) to get in touch! • #therapist #therapy #psychotherapy #traumainformed #traumatherapy #counselling #supervision #clinicalsupervision

Last week was the final culmination of more than 20 week’s work for the art group that I’ve been co-facilitating with @openroadcolchester and @theminories • Growing in my Recovery is a multi-media exhibition of the pieces that participants created throughout the course. Centred around their personal experiences of recovery from substance addiction and it’s vicissitudes, the collection is provoking, heart-warming and thoughtful. The work is exhibited as a whole, as well as cleverly offering the opportunity for the viewer to have a personal encounter with each artist through audio clips of the artists talking about their work in their own words is played. The group itself, the pieces produced and the resulting exhibition work as a reclamation of the birthright that is creativity; a birthright that is so often lost through the trauma of addiction. It’s been a complete privilege to work alongside the group’s participants 💖 the exhibition will remain open to the public into November 2024 •

Picked up the keys to my new office space on Monday! There’s some work to do before I’m able to see clients (online and face to face) but hopefully it won’t take too long 💫 • #psychotherapy #psychotherapist #colchester #colchesteressex #therapy #counselling #therapyroom #traumainformedtherapy

Hi friends! It’s been a while- here’s an update! • After a two year break from private practice work with clients, my MA is complete, and I am getting set up to return to clinical work soon! This time, I’ll be based in Colchester, Essex and continuing to work online with my supervisees • I’ll be posting more updates as things develop, but until then, I thought the image of Freud’s couch (snapped at a recent visit to the Freud museum) and my ode to it in tattoo form is an apt way to mark the ending of my study break, where I delved into psychoanalytic studies, and the beginning of this next chapter. • I was recently asked to reflect on the tattoo and what it means to me; “I realise that, for me, it is an attempt at capturing, representing and embodying some aspect or symbol of psychoanalysis… I find that almost everywhere I look, psychoanalysis is there- in the novel that I am reading, the film I am watching, the stories in the news, the dreams I dream, and the relationships and bonds that I form with people… The couch has become an iconic image for psychoanalysis, and my tattoo is a reminder of the place of dreaming, free association and fantasy that we return to and begin from, again and again”. • #psychoanalysis #freud #sigmundfreud #psychotherapy #analyticcouch #freudscouch #freudmuseum #psychoanalytic #dreams #dreamanalysis #freeassociation

I took this week off and stayed local for some slow-time with walks in the woods, outside and inside swims, lotssss of meditation, time with friends and sangha and finally reading a classic I haven’t got round to yet. Perfect! 😌