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I’m a Certified Transactional Analyst and use Transactional Analysis as the foundation of my psychotherapy and supervision work. I’m trained in relational Transactional Analysis, an approach that...

I’m a Certified Transactional Analyst and use Transactional Analysis as the foundation of my psychotherapy and supervision work. I’m trained in relational Transactional Analysis, an approach that focuses on how our early relationship patterns are internalised, then repeated in our current relationships, work, and sense of self. Psychotherapy, in my view, is primarily about making what is unconscious more conscious so that people have greater choice, freedom and coherence in their lives. I take the unconscious seriously, including its different layers, and I’m increasingly interested in working with dreams as a way of accessing symbolic meaning and deeper processes in therapy. In supervision, I pay close attention to the impact of the client on the therapist and the therapist’s emotional and bodily response to the client, using this as rich information about the clinical situation. I am also trained as a Balint group leader and draw on this reflective, case-based group process when offering supervision to teams and groups.