Providing Psychotherapy services in Hadley Common and the surrounding areas
We provide formal and clinical talking therapy to help individuals to directly address issues and difficulties.
Get in touch to arrange a free consultation call
Providing Psychotherapy services in Hadley Common and the surrounding areas
We provide formal and clinical talking therapy to help individuals to directly address issues and difficulties.
Get in touch to arrange a free consultation call
welcome to hadley therapy
One-to-One Psychotherapy sessions
We are based in Hadley Common in Barnet. Our therapy rooms are designed to help you feel comfortable and at ease. Whether you’re seeking to understand yourself better, work through relationship difficulties, address compulsive or repetitive behaviour, or simply find a path to personal growth, we are here to help. Engaging with Psychotherapy can uncover patterns and develop insights to help you move forward to a more fulfilling experience of life.
About Us
A Time And Space To Talk About Feelings.
At Hadley Therapy, we specialise in psychodynamic therapy, which takes a deeper longer-term approach to the underlying issues that shape emotions, decisions, relationships, and behaviours. We offer individuals an open-ended psychotherapeutic process which is graduated over time. As the therapeutic relationship develops, potential patterns are uncovered which offer valuable insights which help develop tenacity and power to navigate challenges, deal with issues, and help the individual take control of their perception of life and their place within it.
How It Works
Whatever issues you may be facing our therapeutic services are designed to address specific needs using a compassionate transformative clinical approach.
Bespoke specialist interventions can be discussed but usually we suggest starting with the following three steps.
Stage 1
Book a phone consultation, so we can have an informal discussion about what you may require
No charge for this stage.
Stage 2
Your psychotherapist will arrange your clinical assessment session.
A two-hour consultation to explore your life history and determine if regular psychotherapy is the right path for you.
Cost: £120 inclusive
Stage 3
Regular once or twice-weekly sessions where issues are explored and understood.
Cost: £80 per session
Take the First Step
Share your details, to arrange your free initial consultation.
finding a therapist
Our therapists are accredited, insured and experienced Psychodynamic Psychotherapists registered and regulated by either the BACP (British Association or Counsellors and Psychotherapists) or BPC (British Psychoanalytic Council).
Accreditation means that practitioners have undergone the necessary training and qualification in order to practice safely and ethically, and that accredited practising therapists engage with ongoing training and regular clinical supervision, in order to continually monitor and maintain, fitness to practise, professional standards and competency.
Psychodynamic Psychotherapists are trained specifically to work with sensitive issues, relating to many aspects of being human such as bereavement, anxiety, depression, compulsive behaviours, self-abuse or abuse inflicted and interpersonal difficulties. The therapist will be ready to listen and discuss any topic and any thoughts, feelings, emotions that the patient is invited to bring into consciousness using words.
What to expect
We have created an environment of professionalism and convenience, that will support you during your sessions.
Fully Qualified Therapists
Licensed, private and affordable local psychotherapists.
One-to-One & Online Sessions
Face to face sessions and Zoom online sessions for special circumstances
Fast Access to start treatment
No referrals, no waiting rooms.
Discreet and Comfortable Consultion Rooms
Safe and discreet therapy sessions, based in Hadley Common.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Experienced Therapists offering specialist psychodynamic therapy.
Air Conditioned & Safe
Refurbished, air conditioned rooms available.
issues we cover
What Psychotherapy Can Help With
Anger
Anger is a human emotional mechanism which helps us to respond to a sense of injustice. However, anger in it’s different forms, can become highly destructive to ourselves and others and can carry a sense of shame.
Psychotherapy can:
- Take a non-judgmental empathic approach to anger
- Help an individual understand more about anger and it’s connected emotions, such as frustration and resentment
- Help an individual understand their unique relationship with anger
- Offer a space to explore, understand anger in a safe and contained way
- Help an individual understand what may be the source of their anger
- Help the individual to take ownership and control or their emotions
- Address other feelings, emotions and behaviour that may play a significant role in their psychological growth
Bereavement, loss and change
Bereavement comes to all of us at some point. The effects of losing a loved one can significantly impact us in many parts of our lives. There can also be other difficult or unexpected emotions during the bereavement process. It is also possible to have powerful bereft feelings relating to different losses, such as the loss of a friendship or a relationship, sense of identity or aspects or physicality.
Psychotherapy can:
- Offer a place where an individual can look deeply into their connection and it’s significance with person(s) loss of someone or something
- Explore how loss may link with the unique aspects of the individual’s lived experience
- Look deeply into the meaning of loss and how it may relate to other aspects of an individual’s life
- Work towards a better psychological position through a graduated process of sensitive understanding, acknowledgement and thoughtful adjustment
Family and Relationships
Conflict between family members is common, conflict can be long-term or may arise to the surface at challenging times relating to change, stress and major life events.
Psychotherapy can:
- Offer a safe space to express your feelings
- Look at established dynamics and patterns
- Explore potentially unwanted or obscured feelings
- Understand established interpersonal connections
- Work with associated imbedded emotions
- Offer healing and progress at a measured pace
Low Self-Esteem
The cause of low self-esteem and confidence issues can be related to many different parts of life history such poor or inconsistent parenting, bullying or isolation at school or traumatic adult experiences. Societal pressure and social media can also caused low-self esteem issues.
Psychotherapy can:
- Help and individual understand why they suffer
- Explore underlying causes of low self-esteem such as historical experiences, self-persecution and anger
- Identify and work with related issues such as social anxiety disorder
- Delve in to what may feel impossible or beyond reach in terms of one’s potential
- Strengthen Ego
Personality Disorders
Individuals who have a personality disorder often experience difficulties relating to how they think about themselves and others. This can lead to problems making and maintaining relationships, forming authentic connections with others in work family and socially.
Psychotherapy can:
- Be a place to explore lived experience as understood from an individual perspective
- Explore internal thought processes to events and situations
- Focus on the unique nature of personality and how that fits in with the word disorder
- Lay out potential ways of living with a personality disorders
- Look at embracing and developing other aspects of the individual beyond the personality disorder
- Consider and work with other issues that may be a consequence of a personality disorder
Psychological Abuse
Often relationships that involve psychological abuse are intertwined with happy and normal events, which can cause to obscure and distort notions of what’s right and wrong. Victims can find themselves in a cycle of sometimes subtle abuse, which can over time alter their own reality and sense of values.
Psychotherapy can:
- Provide a safe space to explore and understand the lived experience
- Allow for discussion around emotional triggers and established responses
- Explore individual historical context and potential links to experiences in the here and now
- Lay out possibilities in terms of strategies available to remove the individual from the threat of harm
- Discuss other potential interventions for the individual to pursue
Psychopathology
Certain issues can in some cases leads to pathological responses such as compulsive, habitual behaviour. It is often associated with physical dependence on substances, such as drugs or alcohol to repeated behaviours or activities that someone feels they have no control over.
Psychotherapy can:
- Understanding why you suffer
- Allow an individual to explore their behaviour in the present and how that may stem from experiences from the past
- Sensitively help an individual face their pathological behaviour
- Explore alternative options and approaches which may help the individual understand their issues from a different perspective
- Work on an individual’s sense of self in order to gain access to personal development
- Help in the recovery process from compulsive behaviour and/or substance abuse
Sex and Sexuality
Many people carry with them concerns, problems and issues relating to sex and sexuality, sometimes in an isolated way, which can in some cases cause sexual problems and stress for them psychologically.
Psychotherapy can:
- Be a place to discuss freely matters relating to sex and sexuality
- Exploration of an individuals unique relationship to human attraction and desire
- Understanding love and relationships, patterns of relating and attachment types
- Determine and work with pathological sexual behaviour
Understanding Psychodynamic Therapy
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An initial consultation will be required to make a full assessment to ensure that the most suitable Psychodynamic Therapist will be assigned for you.
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