Trish Moonoosamy

Availability for therapy: Please note - I do not have any availability for therapy  (updated Sept 23) 

Therapy sessions take place Tuesday-Thursday.  For up to date information on availability for therapy or supervision, please contact me by email.  I usually provide a quick response to any enquiry.

I offer face to face and online video sessions, but do not offer telephone sessions.  Both take place in my therapy room in the  Derbyshire area.  

I offer an initial session so you can find out more about the way I work, which is a telephone or video session

As a qualified, accredited and experienced Psychodynamic Therapist, I have worked since qualifying in 2002, within the voluntary sector, the NHS, and with a large Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).  In the last 9 years, working with private clients in my own practice, offering both short term and long term therapy has been my main focus.  

Trained initially in the Psychodynamic model of therapy, I continue to work using this approach.  This is based on the belief that present day-to-day problems can be linked to unresolved issues from the past. This often results in the repeating of unhelpful and negative patterns in relationships, friendships or in work situations. These understandable, but often unhealthy, ways of coping or surviving have their roots in the past,  and we can be completely unaware of how they affect us as adults. In the therapeutic relationship, I will work with you to help to recognise, make sense of, and seek to change these unhelpful, often unconscious ways of behaving.  

My experience: Primary Care Therapist within a GP surgery; an Associate Therapist with organisations offering support to survivors of rape, childhood sexual abuse or sexual assault; working within Employer Assistance Programmes (EAP) and my own private practice.

I have experience of working with:

- anxiety and depression

- recurring problems and negative repeating patterns in relationships, personal life and work

- the impact of childhood emotional neglect on adults

- the impact of trauma, namely: childhood sexual, physical, emotional abuse; neglect; dissociation; sexual assault; domestic violence; bullying

- women and pregnancy, e.g. loss, body image, post natal depression, particularly  in relation to own childhood experience

- low self-esteem, self-confidence, self-blame, unrealistic  high expectations of self, perfectionism

- work related stress, problems with work/life balance

I specialise in longer term therapy due to my training, approach and issues presented. e.g. trauma. emotional neglect, patterns of behaviour repeated since childhood

Usually the first and early sessions would involve taking a childhood history and getting a sense of your feelings linked to your childhood, both positive and negative.  

Availability is varied - please email for more details.

I have Concessionary rate places for students/trainee therapists depending on availability - please enquire.

Face to face and remote video sessions ( to be discussed at initial contact/session)

Please note: I do not offer telephone sessions

After qualifying as a therapist in 2002, I have spent many years since then working within the area of trauma, specifically child sexual abuse (CSA), sexual assault, emotional neglect and domestic violence (DV).  

As a supervisor, I have a particular interest in, and continue to support other therapists/trainees working in this area of therapy. From my own experience as a therapist, I have benefited from good, regular supervision, which has enabled me to continue in this specialist area. This experience informs the way I work with supervisees, paying particular attention to the importance of self-care and our ethical responsibility as therapists to ensure 'that our wellbeing is sufficient to sustain the quality of the work' (BACP).

Other experience involves short term focused therapy within a GP/NHS setting, EAP and sub contracted/associated therapy work within the voluntary/charitable sector.  In the last 9 years, I have worked mainly in private practice providing longer term therapy.  This provides a varied background for supervising therapists working in different settings, modalities and offering both short and long term therapy. Please see my therapy page for more information. 

I currently work with therapists/trainees working or training in organisations in the voluntary sector, but also work privately supervising individual therapists/students.

I am increasingly working with therapists who wish to move into or develop their private practice and/or work more long term with clients.  This has been my own journey as a psychodynamic therapist, and my private practice involves working with clients in this way and supervising others interested in this transition.

My approach:

In therapy, I trained and qualified as a psychodynamic therapist in 2002- this underpins my supervisory work.   In supervision, I pay particular attention, not just to what has been brought to supervision, i.e. presentation of the client/session content, but what might still be ‘carried’ (Hawkins and Shohet) by the therapist, both consciously and unconsciously into the supervision session. Therefore, by being open to exploring the transference, counter-transference and parallel process in the supervision session, this helps us to have a deeper understanding of the work, not only between client-therapist but also between supervisee-supervisor.

Qualifications:

Diploma in Supervision - Leeds Centre for Psychological Development.

I encourage potential supervisees to contact me initially for a preliminary discussion or meeting.  I am also happy to have an initial supervision session (face to face or remotely) to experience my way of working, and to help us decide if we would like to work together.