Counselling & Psychotherapy for Individuals & Couples
We are a small team that has has over 16 years counselling experience working with individuals and couples, in the areas of relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, addictions, depression, anxiety and anger . Wee has provided counselling to adults, couples, children, adolescence, parents and families in a variety of organisations and private practice.
Professional Training in Counselling & Psychotherapy
Therapeutic approach – The Masterson approach is an object relations, self psychology and attachment based approach that works with strengthening the real self to grow, so it does not remain impaired or stuck, by overcoming the defensive behaviours which keep the self from moving forward. Masterson psychoanalytic psychotherapy provides treatments for disorders of self. We also specialised in counselling Narcissistic personality disorder individuals, those with Borderline personality disorders and Schizoid disorders of the self. She has further attended international training from the Personality Disorder Institute from New York with Otto Kernberg in Transference Focused Therapy (TFT), in contemporary Psychoanalytic approaches ( Object Relations – interpersonal relationships). TFT focuses on how personality disorders are caused by a fragmented sence of self, causing impairment is self functioning, leading to difficulties and instability in work, relationships, love and so forth. She has also previously attended international training workshops from Alan Schore and the Scharffs in attachment and psychodynamic approaches to therapy.