Jake Freedman

I am currently unable to accept new referrals.

I am a counsellor and psychotherapist registered with the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) and the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). I hold an MSc in Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy and a PGDip in the Philosophy of Mental Disorder. Before qualifying, I worked for seven years in community-based mental health and addiction treatment settings.

I have an interest in the impact of adverse experiences on behaviour and psychic functioning in adulthood and am currently undertaking postqualifying training in the treatment of trauma and dissociation. For the last five years, I have worked for an organisation providing long-term psychotherapy to individuals with histories of childhood trauma.

Psychodynamic therapy focuses on helping you identify and understand recurring themes and both conscious and unconscious patterns that play out in your relationships. This involves an exploration of how you relate to yourself, others, within the workplace and even more abstractly to the object(s) of addictive processes. Although certain ways of relating may have been conducive to your survival at one point, you may now be experiencing their cost. It is important for us to pay attention together to the emotional experiences within which these ways of relating occur. The therapeutic process aims to make these relational patterns conscious and thus more amenable to change.

Before therapy commences, our first two sessions will comprise an initial consultation in which your area/s of concern will be explored and a full history will be taken. In the initial consultation, we will discuss your goals and decide together on how long we meet for. This can be reviewed as our work progresses.

I am currently unable to accept new referrals.

I am a counsellor and psychotherapist registered with the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) and the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). I hold an MSc in Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy and a PGDip in the Philosophy of Mental Disorder. Before qualifying, I worked for seven years in community-based mental health and addiction treatment settings.

I have an interest in the impact of adverse experiences on behaviour and psychic functioning in adulthood and am currently undertaking postqualifying training in the treatment of trauma and dissociation. For the last five years, I have worked for an organisation providing long-term psychotherapy to individuals with histories of childhood trauma.

Psychodynamic therapy focuses on helping you identify and understand recurring themes and both conscious and unconscious patterns that play out in your relationships. This involves an exploration of how you relate to yourself, others, within the workplace and even more abstractly to the object(s) of addictive processes. Although certain ways of relating may have been conducive to your survival at one point, you may now be experiencing their cost. It is important for us to pay attention together to the emotional experiences within which these ways of relating occur. The therapeutic process aims to make these relational patterns conscious and thus more amenable to change.

Before therapy commences, our first two sessions will comprise an initial consultation in which your area/s of concern will be explored and a full history will be taken. In the initial consultation, we will discuss your goals and decide together on how long we meet for. This can be reviewed as our work progresses.