Gillian Brown

I offer Psychodynamic Psychotherapy from an integrative, holistic perspective. With a grounding in Jungian Analytical Psychology, I regard dreams, symbols, and spiritual insight as essential guides to wellbeing. I also work closely with, and in, the natural world as a practitioner of the growing field of Ecopsychology.

PhD in Psychosocial & Psychoanalytic Studies. MA Degree in Psychotherapy and Healing. Diploma in Hypnotherapy. Certificate in Counselling & Body Psychotherapy. Certified training in Ecotherapy Awareness and Understanding Therapeutic Practice in Outdoor Natural Spaces. I have worked privately as a therapist for over fifteen years and over ten years in Community Mental Health settings. I have delivered courses on Mindfulness, Relaxation, Anxiety Management, Anger Management and coping with Depression, and have worked under the NHS as a wellbeing and crisis Support Worker. For the past five years I have also practiced therapeutically in outdoor settings.

Psychodynamic, Jungian Psychotherapy. Ecopsychology. Mindfulness. Short term crisis and anxiety support.

I see personal wellbeing as a healthy relationship between our inner and outer worlds, with the therapist's role being to guide a client to a trusting relationship with their own inner wisdom. I find that working with dreams, mythologies, symbols and nature, either within or outside the therapy room, provides a reliable framework to connecting with our deeper selves. The unconscious contains a wealth of healing resources that can help us overcome our fears, self-doubts and other symptoms, particularly when given a safe supportive space in which to emerge.