Psychoanalytic psychotherapy offers a space to think more deeply about difficulties that may not have straightforward causes or solutions. Through careful reflection on what comes up in each session, attention is paid to the patterns, relationships and histories that shape how we experience ourselves and others.
Some of these patterns may be familiar but difficult to change, while others may only become apparent through the process of the work. Feelings, thoughts, memories, dreams and the ways you relate to other people can all become part of that process. The aim is to allow for an openness to a different relationship to aspects of experience that may previously have felt fixed, confusing or outside your control.
A psychoanalytic approach is based on the idea that not everything that affects us is immediately available to conscious understanding. Analysis therefore involves allowing time and space for less obvious connections and meanings to emerge. This can make it particularly useful for difficulties that recur despite attempts to understand or overcome them.
My approach draws on both traditional and contemporary psychoanalytic approaches. I am also interested in the ways our inner lives are shaped by the social world: by family, culture, work, identity and the wider conditions in which we live. These dimensions can be explored where they feel relevant to you, without assuming in advance what significance they have.
I aim to offer a thoughtful, respectful and inclusive setting in which you can speak freely about whatever feels important. I welcome people of all backgrounds and identities.
I am a trainee member of UKCP (2011193419) and currently in formation with the Society for Social and Critical Psychoanalysis in Truro, having previously undertaken training at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, London. I am fully insured.
If you are considering psychotherapy, you are welcome to get in touch to arrange an initial consultation, where we can think together about what has brought you to therapy and whether working together feels right.
contact@manzarpour.net
