About BJM Counselling & Psychotherapy

I work with individuals and couples.

Counselling and psychotherapy have been found to be helpful with a range of problems including:
- alienation
- alcohol and drug dependence
- anxiety, bereavement
- grief
- childhood issues
- depression
- family and relationship breakdown
- experiences of sexual and physical abuse
- trauma
- low self esteem and poor self image
- general feelings of inferiority
- issues of difference
- sexual identity and orientation
- being an outsider
- loss of meaning and direction
- stage of life issues
- patterns of failure and conflict
- problems with self acceptance
- early deprivation
- mental illness in the family or in oneself
- stress
- feelings of emptiness and powerlessness

In my work as a therapist I am interested in finding ways to meet the needs of the individual as they try to work through their problems and achieve a better understanding of themselves. I work from the perspective of mindfulness, respecting the reality and experience of each person.

My training, work experience and any achievement

- I have thirty years experience working as a psychotherapist.
- I trained at WPF Counselling and Psychotherapy and am a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist Member of the Foundation for Psychotherapy and Counselling, (FPC).
- I am registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy, (UKCP).
- I am Chair of the Analytic Network and the Bath Psychotherapy Service.

- I have worked in the voluntary sector and within Psychiatric settings and have been involved in the training of counsellors and psychotherapists.
- I contributed to the best selling "Experiences of Counselling in Action", edited by Windy Dryden, Sage Publications, London.
- I am the author of Developing Psychodynamic Counselling, 1995, Sage.

- I work within the psychoanalytic tradition from a mindfulness perspective.
- I have evolved a way of working which aims to honour and respect the experience of each individual and which seeks to promote genuine growth and wellbeing.
- I work from an affirmative stance with gay people.
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