Nicola Kerr

You may be feeling anxious, depressed, low, or worried about certain aspects of your life. Whatever it is that is currently troubling you, if it has reached the point at which it is affecting the quality of your daily life, then therapy can be the first step to understanding some of these difficulties and challenges. I offer psychodynamic psychotherapy from a relational perspective, with two options. Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT), which is a treatment course of 16 sessions to help identify anxiety and depression, which may be caused by relational difficulties. We would look at experiences that may have happened in your past, which could continue to affect the way you feel and behave in relationships today. I also offer Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, where the primary focus is to identify and understand emotional and behavioural patterns that are troublesome. The length of the therapy is discussed together as we proceed.

Alongside my private practice, I work within the NHS as a senior psychotherapist, and lead clinician, providing Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT); as part of the NHS's ‘Improving Access to Psychological Therapies' (IAPT) Talking Therapies Southwark service, at South London and Maudsley (SLaM) NHS Foundation Trust. I am a professional member of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), and also registered with The Foundation for Psychotherapy and Counselling (FPC). Therefore I adhere to their code of ethics and working practice. I am also a kite-marked DIT clinician registered with The British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC). I am a recognised psychotherapist registered with Counselling Directory, Find a Therpay.org, Psychology Today, and Welldoing.org.

• Anger • Anxiety • Body issues • Depression • Difficulties with your family • Eating disorders • Feeling anxious and worried • Lacking in self confidence • Loneliness • Loss of direction in life • Sex and sexual identity • Socially feeling on the outside • Stress • Suffering a bereavement • Suicidal thoughts • Unhappy relationships • Work problems

I offer two ways of working. 1. Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) A treatment course of 16 sessions, where DIT is used to help identify and treat anxiety and depression, which may be caused by emotional and relationship difficulties. DIT helps us look at the difficult things that may have happened in your past, which could continue to affect the way you feel and behave today. It may help you understand how you see yourself, and how you think others might see you. It could also help look at how you connect with others (your attachment style) - whether that's with friends, family or someone you're in a relationship with. 2. Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (open ended), where I aim to facilitate a judgement free and safe environment, for us to think and work collaboratively in a time scale that suits you. The focus is to identify and understand emotional, and behavioural patterns that are troublesome; and in doing so, address what can often be deeply emotionally rooted. The length of the therapy is discussed together as we proceed.