Sarah Taylor

My clinic hours are Monday-Thursday, 7am-1pm. 

With a decade of post-qualification experience, you can expect confidential and effective depth psychotherapy oriented towards a Jungian approach. 

What you can expect from your first session:

The first step is an initial free-of-charge consultation where we will discuss general questions about how and whether we might work together.

Relational psychotherapy

'Symptoms are a sign of what the soul longs for and the ego guards against" - James Hillman

We meet once or twice a week at a time that is reserved exclusively for you. For most benefit, we will talk and listen to understand root causes of difficulties.

A relationally-oriented approach to psychotherapy is reflective and occasionally uncomfortable. Like any important relationship, psychotherapy relationships involve commitment, boundaries, learning and listening between two people. Harmony, disharmony and repair, sometimes over a substantial period of time, are often the most important and healing phase of a relational and analytically-oriented psychotherapy. The relationship between any client and therapist is built in service of the client's healing: towards developing resilience, creativity and well-being.

In psychotherapy, human struggles do not need to be avoided by 'getting on with it', using addictions or distractions, or getting stuck - there is a well-trodden and generative path through these times. I will share aspects of myself and my own inner work, if it feels illustrative and helpful that I do so. For many people it can reduce an illusion of 'power imbalance' to remember that psychotherapists are human beings: that it is natural and human to feel pain, face crises, make mistakes, grieve and establish positive changes. Committed work in psychotherapy can help a person to use these experiences for greater wholeness, maturity and wellbeing.

Creative approaches

To support a client's inner work I may use techniques of metaphor, active imagination, art therapy, compassionate inquiry, shadow work, sand tray, dreamwork and parts work. Sometimes no 'technique' is needed: compassionate, respectful conversation can give you the breathing space to explore things.

Please get in touch by phone or email for an initial consultation, when I'll explain the first steps and you can ask any questions you might have about the important decision to start psychotherapy. There's no charge for this initial meeting, which usually lasts around 30 minutes. I look forward to hearing from you - wherever you are in the process of seeking support. 

If we agree to move forwards, we will meet for two or three assessment sessions during which we'll talk about what's troubling you in depth. These sessions are quite structured - I ask a lot of different questions to get the most broad and detailed understanding of you and what might support you best. In these initial sessions we'll begin to get a sense of whether or not to work together, fees, frequency of meetings, and the working approach we might start with.