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I believe psychotherapy and counselling is an art – and an art of holding, containing, exploring and making sense of one’s internal and external worlds. I provide compassionate, and creative analytical therapeutic support for those experiencing psychic suffering, distress and emotional pain.

Dr Sylvie Simonds is a psychotherapist and counsellor who works with a range of clients and has experience of the following:

 

  • Depression/ Anxiety

  • Relationship/ Attachment Issues

  • Self Esteem

  • Divorce

  • Domestic Violence

  • Life Transitions

  • School issues

  • Trauma and PTSD

  • Men’s issues

  • OCD

  • Birth Trauma

  • Fear of giving birth/ Tokophobia

  • Preconceptual counselling

  • Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)

  • Bereavement and Loss

  • Miscarriage/ IFV and Infertility

  • Historical Abuse

  • Postnatal Depression

  • Recovery from Post-Partum Psychosis

  • Transition to Parenthood/Motherhood/Fatherhood

  • Boarding School Trauma and Abuse

  • Writers / Artistic and Creative Block

  • Childhood emotional disorders

  • Termination

  • IVF and Miscarriage

 

Transitions to Parenthood

“It is a joy to be hidden and a disaster not to be found.”

D. W. Winnicott