We all have times when issues in our lives or from our past get in the way of us functioning as well as we would like to. Having a place to talk to someone about these issues is a way of both coming to terms and challenging these issues. Transactional Analysis is an approach to therapy which focuses respectfully on the clients needs through developing a clear contract of work. Client and therapist are then able to work together towards the client gaining insight into their difficulties and making steps towards healthy change. Transactional Analysis is notable for its clarity of concepts and simplicity of language. Each client can decide how much or little they would like to use its theoretical concepts as part of the therapy process.
In longer term work part of the development of insight and making change is also facilitated through the relationship with the therapist. Often relationship dynamics that have developed from our childhood are echoed and can be explored in the therapeutic relationship. Old feeling can emerge and be worked through and a new way of being with others can be developed.
The length of the therapy depends very much on the client. The therapeutic process can be focused on a particular issue over a few sessions or can be a process that will take several years.
As well as my experience as a psychotherapist I have trained and worked as a dramatherapist for over twenty years. Again, depending on what the client wants in his or her therapy, I can introduce and we can explore concepts such as working with significant stories and metaphor, guided fantasy and exploration of dreams. This work draws on concepts from Jungian analytical psychology.