Cameron Dodds
Psychotherapist in Godalming

I'm Dr Cameron Dodds, a Creativity Analyst, researcher, and artist. With a PhD exploring psychoanalysis and applied philosophy within creativity, I have spent over a decade working at the intersection of research and practice. I have taught and lectured in universities, supervised doctoral projects, supported organisational projects, and mentored artists and professionals at advanced levels.

This breadth of experience has shaped a rare practice: one that treats creativity not as output, but as the deep function through which we make meaning and orient ourselves in the world.

This work combines analytic technique with philosophical inquiry to create the scope for depth that is integral to understanding creativity as a fundamental human function. Each engagement is carefully tailored, ensuring a rigorous and personalised process aligned with your creative and life context.

Background & Psychotherapy Qualifications

I hold a PhD from Guildhall School of Music & Drama / City, University of London. My background is in art and psychoanalysis, and my work is grounded in long-term research into creativity, subjectivity, and psychic process.

I am a working artist and currently lecture on philosophy, music, and research skills at leading universities. My practice is fully insured and clinically supervised, and I work with creativity as a primary psychic function rather than as a secondary outcome, as often found in traditional helping practices.

My Specialisms

- Creativity-forward integrative psychoanalysis (post-Jungian, post-Freudian and applied philosophical approaches)
- Applied philosophy as therapeutic praxis
- Creativity-focused analytic work
- Creative blocks, impasse, and loss of creative vitality
- Individuation, meaning, and creative living

Approach to Psychotherapy & How I Work

My approach begins from the view that creativity is often overlooked or treated as an add-on in more traditional helping practices. In this work, self-making is understood as inherently creative, and creativity is approached not as an outcome of psychological work, but as its driving psychic function.

The practice is research-facing and contributes to the development of new approaches to arts-led psychoanalytic work, where creativity is treated as a primary site of meaning, transformation, and individuation. I work with creativity not as a tool to be managed or optimised, but as a living process that shapes how a person thinks, feels, and relates long before it becomes conscious.

To live creatively is to develop a growing relationship with the unconscious and to allow it its own voice. What we make, imagine, say, or avoid emerges from unconscious currents that organise life beneath the surface. The work pays close attention to these movements and to how they are disrupted, inhibited, or prematurely exposed.

Creative blocks, loss of flow, anxiety, inhibition, or loss of direction are not treated simply as problems to eliminate. Instead, they are explored as meaningful signals within a wider psychic economy, asking how and why they arise and what they may be asking for. These experiences are approached as part of a living relationship to inner life, where creative vitality, psychological understanding, and self-distinction can develop together.

This practice is part of a wider programme of research into creativity and psychoanalysis. My first monograph on creativity and psychoanalytic practice has been commissioned by Intellect Books and is due for publication in 2028.

Therapies & Rates

Please note the rates detailed below are there to give you an idea of the therapists standard rates, we strongly advise you contact the therapist for more detailed rates and any offers they may have.

Therapy	Appointment Type	Rate
Psychotherapy	Online/Telephone	Please Call

Additional Rate Information

Please note that psychotherapy has been chosen as a therapy here, as it is the most closely aligned with my work which is Creativity Analysis.