alexandra peet
Bournemouth Psychotherapist & Counsellor
Why Come For Counselling & Psychotherapy?
Psychotherapy and Counselling can change your life. Talking to someone independent can really help you work out what’s wrong and what you can do about it. I give you the time and space to look at your situation objectively in a more helpful way.
The Benefits Of Counselling & Psychotherapy Can Include:
- Relieving your isolation by sharing your thoughts, feelings and worries in a safe place.
- Improving your relationship with yourself and others by getting to know yourself better.
- Increasing your self-esteem by accepting yourself and feeling confident to make choices which will improve your day to day life and well-being.
Who Is Counselling & Psychotherapy For?
I work with individuals over 18 and offer psychotherapy and counselling for issues such as:
Anxiety, Depression, Relationships, Self-esteem, Divorce and separation, Loss and grief, Loneliness, Abuse, Work-related stress, Family and parenting difficulties
recent posts
Contemporary Psychoanalytic Ideas
In the final post on my series on the useful theories of psychoanalysis I end with some current thinking and practice which has evolved since attachment theory. In essence there has been a movement from classical psychoanalysis towards a more relational and...
John Bowlby’s Attachment Theory
John Bowlby’s Attachment Theory Attachment Theory is a well-known and widely accepted concept in human development and psychotherapy. British psychiatrist John Bowlby developed it in the 1950s. The crux of attachment theory is that the early emotional bonds between...
The Helpful Ideas of Donald Winnicott
The Helpful Ideas of Donald Winnicott Continuing my series on the founders of psychoanalysis I'm exploring Donald Winnicott this month. Donald Winnicott (1896-1971) was a paediatrician who then trained as a psychoanalyst, first to adults and later to...