Psychotherapists, Psychoanalysts
Psychologists, Counsellors.
Your fast track to qualified professional help.
How do I get help?
Just ring
020 3093 5162
or to email click on: info@psychservices.co.uk
There is no charge for the initial consultation itself. What you pay is arranged between you and our inhouse psychotherapist or the professional we refer you to.
Your initial FREE consultation
This can either be in a bright modern setting in North London or in the City of London with German born Margot O'Donoghue Bsc, MA, educated in Essen, Middlesex University and CFAR trained in the Lacanian tradition, often thought of as the deepest and most challenging of psychological schools. Margot has lived in North London for most of her adult life. Her experience includes counselling life prisoners in Holloway Prison as well as assisting victims of Nazi death camps. Her clients today often come from highly pressured postions in the City and the media.
"Psychotherapie ist für alle"
"Psychotherapy is for everyone. I have worked with extreme cases and also brought up a family so rest assured I can take your problems in my stride. I will put you at ease and explore your particular psychological concerns, then I may refer you to other specialists if together we agree that is best. Psychotherapy is a means to an end and that end is to resolve your particular issues i so that they no longer interefere in your life like they did before. Psychotherapy is not a quick fix and it doesn't instantly change you and make your problems go away. However clients often experience intense moments of insight, recalling past events and putting them into a new context regarding their current behaviour. They have been known to leave the session quite euphoric when certain thoughts or observations have struck a chord and acheived a significant break through. What psychotherapy does, is give us the capabilty to understand the root of our problems and many clients look forward to confiding in a psychotherapist in a way they cannot with the rest of the world. If you are open and ready, psychotherapy is about the most therapeutic thing anyone can undertake and can pay real dividends, particularly if you are holding down a high powered job."
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud founded the idea that the unconscious mind represses unacceptable thoughts of early childhood. These not only surface in dreams, but can also create conflict, worry, anger and depression as well as phobias, influencing our behaviour.
Lacan, Jung, Adler and Klein
Fundamental Freudian thinking has developed into a variety of branches and notable contributers to psychological theory are Jacques Lacan, Carl Jung, Alfred Adler and Melanie Klein.
Early chilhood experiences
Coming to terms with the fact that our problems stem from earliest childhood experiences, when we are often too young to recollect them, is at the heart of psychoanalysis.
Rejection
In every other area of health we expect a doctor to simply tell us what's wrong and what to do about it. However for a psychotherapist to simply tell us we are psychotic or perverted or any other technical term because of events in our earliest years would meet with immediate rejection. The words themselves, taken out of context, are unacceptable to us and in any case it is past events, not vocabulary and the semantics of psychotherapy, that we have to deal with.
The barriers of the mind
The art of psychotherapy is to get us there, cross the border and discover the unpalatable facts about events and our earliest relationships with close family members for ourselves. This is not at all straight forward because of the barriers the mind has erected to hide the uncomfortable and unacceptable truth.
Empowerment
Understanding ourselves has very positive results in all areas of life, particularly in human relationships. It lets us adjust our reaction to others, understand where our frustration and anger comes from and empowers us to adopt a position of our choosing rather than repressing our feelings and encountering tension and frustration as we grudgingly accept a position chosen for us by others.
Psychotherapy for psychotherapists
Don't think of yourself as odd for seeking help. It is indeed a luxury that can really pay dividends. You would have thought understanding psychotherapy would be enough, however we all have an unconscious we do not want to confront. Even to become a member of a professional body like the UKCP and practice psychotherapy requires years of psychotherapy. All UKCP members are required to undergo psychotherapy regularly. Whoever you will see will know only too well what it is like confronti the truth about themselves. Psychotherapy is for everyone.
The time to seek professional help is when you are ready to address your particular issues. Rest assured of confidentiallity, your well being is our greatest concern. For those new to the idea of psychotherapy it is a big step but in reality it is just a case of making your mind up that the time is right, picking up the phone or writing the email. Putting it off solves nothing.
Antidepressants
Drugs are often seen as an easy-fix to psychological problems. Doctors’ prescriptions for antidepressants have more than doubled from 10.8 million to 26.6 million in the last ten years. The biggest increase has been in a new class of antidepressants known as SSRIs. Most doctors are fully aware that antidepressants are merely a short-term answer and do not address the underlying cause of the sufferer’s illness.
Designed to adjust the chemical make up of our neurotransmitters, antidepressants, like most medication, can have side effects.
Typical reactions to antidepressants :
1. Dizziness
2. Diarrhea
3. Constipation
4. Nausea
5. Mouth feeling dry.
6 Insomnia, sweating.
7. Drowsiness
8. Weight loss/increase
9. Irritability/anxiety/trauma
Drugs not only carry the risk of side affects they never deal with the real issues, they merely suppress them to make life more tolerable.
Time to talk
GPs, however well intentioned, have very little time available to listen to their patients’ problems. Many of them suggest some form of counselling service, but the waiting list for a North London NHS therapist or counsellor, can stretch up to 12 months. It is also all too easy to put off making the appointment because of barriers in your mind.
Do it now
Your unconscious is working against your conscious, it is uncomfortable with having its secrets exposed so the time to act is the moment you realise you need help. Putting it off is your unconscious controlling events. Psychological Services will normally see you within three days.
PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES
North London psychotherapy
4 Harrington Court,
34 Station Road, New Barnet,
Hertfordshire EN5 1PZ
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020 3093 5162
or to email click on: info@psychservices.co.uk
