The Philosophy
The kind of therapy not offered
Although psychoanalytically trained, the therapist's background in social anthropology has enabled her to critique some 'orthodox' psychoanalytic approaches liable to thinking that it is possible for the therapist to have a map of the patient's mind and/or to know the patient's unconscious motives and wishes. In her experience, assuming such knowledge can often be experienced by the client as patronising and disempowering and/or can quite simply lead to false conclusions.
The kind of therapy offered
Instead, therapy can be a form of attentiveness to the experience of and relationship with another. Mental suffering can often be a state of not feeling comfortable in one's skin and in one's ways of being, a state which can be altered and alleviated through accepting and understanding one's experience of the world.
