Pauline Hannon

I am a fully qualified and highly experienced therapist offering a safe, calm and confidential space for you to talk .

I have many years experience working with people around a wide range of presenting issues including anxiety, feeling sad/depression, relationship/family difficulties, trauma, low self esteem, identity.

As a therapist, my starting point is a belief we all have the contents to become our fulfilled selves.

As a psychodynamic therapist, I also believe that in response to adverse childhood experience we can set up unhelpful patterns of being and relating, which we continue into adult life, often unconsciously.

By creating a space in therapy to explore and understand this, we can develop the capacity to relate to our personal experiences, memories, feelings, beliefs and relationships in a more reflective yet active way, leading to greater awareness, self-acceptance and the possibility of positive and lasting change.

I have completed a rigorous 5 year professional training at WPF Therapy, one of the leading academic and clinical institutions for psychotherapy in the UK and hold a Postgraduate Diploma in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy accredited by Roehampton University.

I am an accredited member of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy,  registered member of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy and a professional member of the Foundation for Psychotherapy & Counselling and uphold, promote and work within the strict codes of ethics of these organisations.

I am committed to continuing professional development around emerging issues in the field in order to deepen my understanding and inform my clinical practice.

I have experience of working with men and women from a diverse range of backgrounds in terms of age, sexual orientation, ethnicity & cultural background.

Beginning therapy can be one of the most positive steps we ever take.

I offer a free 20 minute telephone consultation after which if you would like, we would agree to meet for a more in-depth face-to-face/on screen consultation.

Lasting around 1 hour, the inital consultation is a safe, confidential space for you to tell me about yourself, why you may be seeking therapy as well as an opportunity for you to get a sense as to whether you would feel comfortable working with me going forward.

If you decide you would like to start therapy with me, we would agree an arrangement based around your individual therapeutic needs.

I usually suggest an open-ended therapy arrangement where you would come for as long as you wanted or needed to and which allows time for issues to come to consciousness and be worked on in-depth.

Time limited therapy arrangements are usually offered over 12 sessions and are helpful if you would like to work with a specific focus.

Therapy sessions take place at an agreed mutually convenient time every week lasting for 50 minutes .