Anita Kane

I offer sessions during daytime and evenings Monday to Friday. 

I currently have vacancies available.

I'm a qualified and accredited psychodynamic counsellor working in private practice in Dursley, Gloucestershire.

Psychodynamic counselling  aims to get to the heart of whatever is holding you back in life with the intention of creating lifelong change. 

The underlying cause of our present difficulties is often located in past experience. When we’re exposed to less than optimal experiences or conditions it’s natural to develop strategies to shield ourselves from immediate suffering and pain. But when these coping mechanisms continue for longer than needed they can begin to harm rather than help. Invisible to our everyday awareness, they silently inform our decisions and responses, guide our motivations and subtly shape our lives. They may reveal themselves in a number of ways such as destructive relational patterns, negative emotions, confusing thoughts, self-harm, psychosomatic illnesses, unhelpful beliefs or feeling stuck and unable to move on. Ultimately, these long established ways of functioning can strip us of the freedom to govern our own lives and prevent us from living fully and creatively.

Exploring what’s going on for you at your own pace with a qualified psychodynamic counsellor can help to uncover the root cause of whatever is causing distress, anxiety, depression or confusion.

Counselling can be a demanding process. But despite the challenges it can ultimately enable us to become stronger and more independent, to make better choices, and to flourish as creative individuals rather than forever repeating the old patterns. It can also help lift us out of the narrowness of our individual difficulties so that we are better able love and support others, as well as giving our lives a renewed sense of purpose and deeper meaning.

In my practice I offer weekly counselling sessions to individual adults within a confidential and professional space.

My approach to counselling is collaborative. Since no two people are the same, it follows that your sessions will be unique to you. You’re welcome to bring anything creative that you feel may further your process - such as artwork, journals, music, writing or dreams - although there is no requirement to do so.

It's not uncommon for there to be a natural psychological resistance to exploring difficult emotions and making changes. The mind is very skilled at finding ways to keep things exactly as they are! So as well as being here to support and encourage you I will also offer a gentle challenge.

I won’t offer solutions or advice; the answers to the challenges we face are to be found not outside of us but from the unique wisdom within. Where it’s become difficult to access that wisdom I offer a professional, therapeutic relationship with the aim of enabling you to reconnect with it.

Once you get in touch with me ​I'll send you an enquiry form to gather some preliminary information. Your response will be treated confidentially and no charge is made for this stage of the process. If I don’t feel that my skill set would benefit you I will let you know.​

We'll then meet for an initial 60 minute pre-counselling consultation which is regarded as an exploratory trial session for each of us. The purpose of the pre-counselling session is to enable me to make a more detailed appraisal of your needs, to offer you the opportunity to ask any questions you may have, and to allow us both to find out how we feel about working together. Following the pre-counselling session, if we’re both in agreement, then your counselling can begin.

​I look forward to hearing from you.