| Philippa
Perry MAHPP UKCP Psychotherapist,
Counsellor and Supervisor
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Contact Details I
practice in Wilmington
Square, London, WC1X 0EG (tube stations: Farringdon, Kings Cross,
Angel, Chancery Lane) Bus routes: 38, 19, 341, 63, 17 020
7713 0030 or email.
I
work with individual adults, couples and groups. I work with
people who want to sort out a particular problem, work through difficult
feelings as well as with people who are interested in personal
and professional development and/or wish to develop more personal
awareness. The initial session will not be charged for if either
of us decide not to take it any further. The normal charge for a
session is £50.00. I also offer supervision
to trainees and qualified counsellors and psychotherapists. My
Experience In
1986 I trained and volunteered for the Samaritans. Here
I learnt about the power of talking and being listened to and understood
and how that could save lives and improve lives. I was so struck
by this that I trained as a counsellor. Then undertook
further training to graduate as a psychotherapist. I
have worked as a volunteer at the Drug and Alcohol Foundation in
Westminster, London running groups for people who had a substance
mis-use problem and a mental health diagnosis (Dual-Diagnosis). I
worked at Women
and Health, as a counsellor and psychotherapist and have served as a
member of the Women and Health Management Committee. Since
1999, I've had a private practice at Wilmington Square, London WC1X
0EG. I work with individuals and couples and groups. How
I work As
a client tells me his or her story I want to discover and explore the
person’s emotional, cognitive, and physical responses to the
situation(s) being discussed. I
also want to discover with the client what his or her typical patterns
are for dealing with recurrent situations, and to devise strategies for
beginning to develop new patterns of response which will have more
satisfying results. I
believe many people come to therapy because self-protective strategies
have become, or can also be, self-destructive strategies.
Whilst I think it is important to challenge self-destructive
strategy/behaviour I believe it is important to aim to understand the
feelings that lie beneath it by inquiring, imagining and checking out
assumptions (mine and the client’s).
If I understand the feeling behind a behaviour and can empathise
with it, I can hopefully help to raise awareness of the behaviour or
strategy in a way less likely to shame the client.
I believe that empathy creates the best context for growth. As
we discover how events of the past may be continuing to impact the
person’s present life, I work with the client in ways which change how
the past affects the present. When
people start doing psychotherapy relevant memories come to the surface
and dreams can provide more information than they may have realised they
had access to. The experience has led me to believe that we have an
inner drive to fulfil potential, to become fully more of who we are, and
we can learn to tap into this drive to our, and to the world's,
advantage. In my practice I aim to facilitate what I see as this self
actualisation drive in my clients and to facilitate their taking charge
of their own lives. I
believe no technique would work unless there is a working alliance
between the client and the therapist.
How I organise myself in the relationship will vary from client
to client. For example a
client neglected by a distracted depressed parent may respond better
with a therapist with a spontaneous, interested, talkative way of being. On the other hand, a client with intrusive, demanding parents
and older siblings might find a quieter, non-intrusive presence to be
just what she needs. I respect the individuality of the client and aim
to attune to it whilst staying centred in myself. Initial
Meeting The
next step is to contact me either by email or ‘phone to set up an
initial meeting. The
meeting will be fifty minutes long and if after the meeting either of
us decide not to take it any further, then I do not charge for the meeting.
If we do decide to carry on working together then I do charge
for this first session. My
charges are £50.00 per fifty minute session and are payable at the time
of the session. Link to Potential Clients’ Frequently Expressed Doubts about therapy
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