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Specialises in

• Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT)
• Counselling

• Psychotherapy

• Short Term Psychodynamic Therapy

Offers

• Face-to-face consultations
• Video and telephone consultations

About me

I have been working as a psychotherapist for over 25 years. During that time, I have also taught on counselling and psychotherapy masters courses at the University of Reading and Birkbeck College, London. My publications include a number of journal papers and two books 'Hidden Self-Harm: narratives from psychotherapy' and 'Psychosomatic Health: the body and the word', both of which reflect my interest in the ways in which psychological stress can emerge in the form of bodily symptoms.
While I find psychoanalytic theory helpful in understanding what may lie behind a client's problems, I do not use a couch and my style of work is conversational and interactive. I like to think of the client and myself as two detectives collaborating to understand and make sense of what is going on and consider together what changes may be possible and beneficial.
Over the last ten years, I have developed a special interest in the impact of climate and environmental changes on emotional wellbeing. These issues can create a continuous background level of anxiety that makes it harder to maintain a sense of agency and deal effectively with the more immediate challenges that life throws up.

Areas of interest

Depression; Anxiety, including climate and other future-related anxieties; Trauma; Bereavement and loss; Dislocation and loss of direction due to life changes; Feeling stuck and indecisive; Problems with decision making; Psychosomatic symptoms; Existential and identity issues.

Specialist interests and expertise in the following physical conditions

• Eating disorders
• Psychophysiological disorders

• Physical disability

• psychosomatic disorders; pain management

Medical secretaries

• Dr Maggie Turp
• 2 Clifton Close Bristol BS8 3LR
• 07986 599848
• maggieturp@googlemail.com