Journal

Reflections on practice

Notes on how I think about the work — what the research is saying, where my approach is shifting, and the strategies I am currently learning from. Written for clients, supervisees and colleagues alike; never about individual people I see.

Psychodynamic theoryNeurobiologyWorking onlineSupervisionEndingsNeurodiversity

Reflection · Theory

What neurobiology has changed in how I sit with people

Psychodynamic work was built long before we could watch a nervous system settle. Studying neurobiology has not replaced that thinking for me — it has given it a body.

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Reflection · Practice

Therapy by video: what is actually lost, and what is not

Online work is no longer an emergency measure. Several years in, I have a clearer sense of what the screen takes away and what it quietly makes possible.

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Reflection · Practice

Endings are part of the work, not the end of it

How therapy finishes tends to matter as much as how it goes. A planned ending can do things that no other part of the work can.

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Reflection · Neurodiversity

Adapting psychodynamic practice for neurodivergent clients

More adults are coming to therapy having recently recognised themselves as autistic or ADHD. Some of my usual methods need rethinking, and some need only explaining.

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Reflection · Supervision

Using the Seven-Eyed Model without turning it into a checklist

A framework is useful right up to the point where it starts supervising the supervisor. Some notes on keeping it flexible.

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Reflection · For clients

On arriving nervous to a first session

Almost everyone does. It is worth saying plainly what a first appointment involves, because uncertainty is doing half the work of the anxiety.

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A note on confidentiality

Nothing here comes from the consulting room

These entries reflect on theory, training and my own practice. No client material, composite or otherwise, appears in them.

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