Psychotherapy and Analysis
I am a Jungian Analyst/Analytical Psychologist and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, registered with the IAAP, BPC and UKCP. I have nearly thirty years' clinical experience as a therapist.
I offer psychotherapy and analysis to individuals in the Sussex/Surrey area. My consulting room is in Horsham in a quiet location on the edge of St. Leonard's Forest .
I see therapy as a process in which together we seek to create a relationship in which all manner of troubling questions about the mind, body and soul can be explored in a spirit of curiosity, openness and honesty.
I have a long standing interest in the work of Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist Carl Jung and I am especially influenced by his ideas. This dates back to 1995 when, in mid-life, at a time of personal crisis, I looked for a therapist and found myself with a Jungian Analyst. Like Jung, I believe that crises are a calling for psychological development.
My clinical work in recent years with 'boarding school survivors' has led to a particular interest in the long term emotional and psychological impact of sending children away from home at a very early age and placing them in the care of an institution in the belief that it will be 'the making of them'. This practice has widespread implications, individually, intergenerationally and culturally. I have contributed a chapter to a forthcoming book 'The Un-Making of Them: Clinical Reflections on Boarding School Syndrome', edited by Nick Duffell and to be published by Routledge in April 2025. The title of my chapter is 'English Landscape: an Archetypal Perspective on the Ex-boarder'.
I have completed a two year Jungian Infant Observation Course. My paper, 'Birds, Beasts and Babies - Notes from an Infant Observation', won the Roszika Parker prize in 2013 and was published in the British Journal of Psychotherapy in 2014. I have presented my paper on several occasions, most recently for the West Midlands Institute of Psychotherapy and for the FPC.
I have been reading Jung's Red Book with The Circle of Analytical Psychology since September 2022.
Location
My consulting room is in Horsham, on the edge of St. Leonard's Forest and not far from Crawley.
People come to me from Brighton. Worthing and the South Coast, Guildford, Dorking, Leatherhead and the Surrey Hills as well as from Crawley, Haywards Heath, Billingshurst, Southwater and the surrounding towns and villages of East and West Sussex.
Photograph of deer Alan Mackenzie