Meet Our Therapists

Justin Stephenson
Clinical Psychologist

Justin is an HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist, an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society.

Justin has worked in a variety of settings within the NHS and Private Sector; including Community Mental Health Teams (CMHT), Psychiatric Intensive Care Units, Acute Inpatient Hospitals, Day Therapy Services and Outpatients.

He works with individuals on both a short and long term basis and works from an integrative and relational perspective using Psychodynamic, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Person Centered approaches to suit each client’s needs.

Gwen Williams
Psychotherapist & Mindfulness Practitioner

Gwen is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and a qualified mindfulness practitioner, with over twenty years’ experience as a psychotherapist.

Her approach is collaborative and client-centred. Psychotherapy offers a route towards enhancing an awareness of personal experience and the meanings generated from it and creates the potential for exercising choice in how you approach others. Gwen meets with each client with openness, flexibility and respect.

While Gwen’s therapeutic approach is primarily located within a psychoanalytical framework, she has developed her mindfulness therapies alongside this, which can offer an integrative and client-centred pathway. As such she can combine traditional psychotherapy with mindfulness or create different pathways through each depending on who you are and what you need.

Gwen also offers supervision for clinicians.

Andrew Wood
Psychodynamic Psychotherapist

Andrew is an accredited Psychodynamic Psychotherapist. He is registered with the Health Professions Council and the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy, as well as being a full member of the British Association of Art Therapists and The Universities Psychotherapy and Counselling Association. Andrew is also a member of The College of Psychoanalysts. He has Masters Degrees in both Psychology and Psychodynamic Practice, this last from Oxford University. Attachment theory represents a particular interest and Andrew has undertaken research in this area. In addition, he is a fully trained EMDR practitioner. EMDR is recommended a by NICE as a treatment of choice for Post -Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Andrew has been offering psychotherapy to a range of clients for over 30 Years and adheres to the UKCP code of practice.

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

The psychodynamic approach explores the extent to which our present is influenced by our past. Often unhelpful patterns of relating and behaving, that have their origin in our early experience, continue to exert a negative influence on the way we live, feel and relate, now. It is only by becoming aware of these unconscious influences that we can develop the ability to change and live more satisfying and rewarding lives, rather than endlessly repeating old conflicts and traumas.

Psychotherapy sessions last for 50 minutes and are usually held weekly. Within a safe and confidential space, confusing or distressing thoughts, feelings and patterns of relating can be explored and made sense of in a way that enables insight and change.