On
this website you will find descriptions of the members of the group, the different
approaches they use, and the areas of London in which they practice.
Click
a name for more detail
To arrange an initial interview with any one of the group, you can phone them on their personal number.
Alternatively,
to ask for more information, or to arrange an assessment to see which of the
therapists might be best for you, please contact
Julia Pikal
on 07711039705
The Psychotherapy Room is a group of psychotherapists who share a common outlook and approach to psychotherapy, although having different orientations and working in different and individual ways.
The Group's ethos has at its centre the idea that helping a person explore their inner issues needs to be done in a compassionate and sympathetic way. The individual remains of foremost importance: they are a person and not a case.
Psychology believes that our childhood experience is of paramount importance. That how we were brought up, the social and economic conditions we experienced, our parents’ attitudes towards us as individuals and those of significant others such as teachers, siblings, figures of authority are the key factors in how our personalities have been formed and how we relate to the world as adults. Many people suffer from lack of confidence and lack of self-esteem, or feel angry or depressed or feel stuck in a rut and cannot find the motivation to move forward and fulfil their ambitions and have the kind of life that they want. Others find they have difficulties in their relationships at home or at work or feel lonely and unable to form relationships at all.
Whatever the problem, the general approach to psychotherapy centres around bringing the unconscious aspects of a person's problems to consciousness. This is mainly done by exploring a person's childhood experience as well as looking at their life today and enabling the person to see how these two are linked. We are all products of our early life experience and conditioning, and in making this conscious we can then see that our adult life is in many ways a reflection of our childhood, how we tend to treat ourselves in the way that we were treated, how the same key figures or situations keep appearing in a different guise causing our childhood experience to play out again and again. Other ways of facilitating consciousness are working with dreams, creative imagination, visualisation and body work.
When we can see how the past is being acted out in the present all becomes clearer. Having gained that insight and understanding of why we behave the way we do, think and feel the way we do and experience others the way we do, we are enabled to see how we repeat negative patterns of behaviour, set ourselves up to be treated in a certain way and are able to see what is stopping us from being the person we really are. In looking at the past in this way and re-experiencing our hurt, angry and sometimes confused feelings and then honouring these feelings, we are able to move on and have the life that we really want and deserve.
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