Alan Percy

I am a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with over thirty years experience, both offering private psychotherapy and also working within the Higher Education Sector, having clinically managed the Counselling Service for the University of Oxford for over 20 years. I have extensive experience in a variety of different interventions, both individual and group therapy, training, clinical supervision and organisational consultation. 

As a psychoanalytic psychotherapist my main model is using psychodynamic theory and practice in a professionally boundaries way, but offering an adaptive and relaxed approach. This would be demonstrated by having a more conversational approach and engagement in terms of the therapeutic relationship. The main focus would be looking at the clients narrative or life story, through the analysis of unconscious dynamics and patterns both from the past and present, as well looking at the psychological development of the client and issues such as attachment. In recent years my practice has focused more on issues such as compassion, self and identity and the prevalence in contemporary life rigid think and reactive behaviour as opposed to reflective/adaptive thinking and behaviour.