MA - MBACP Accred - BPC Reg DIT Therapist - MBPsS 12a Argyle Walk, London - WC1H 8HA - ☎︎: +44 7964 923971
Are you feeling depressed, stressed out, anxious or simply stuck in life?
Is your life far from where you imagined it would be?
Do you want to understand yourself better?
Do you wish to change unhealthy patterns in your behaviour or relationships?
It takes courage to recognise your difficulties and decide to change. Allan Gois - Psychotherapist in Bloomsbury can help you in that process.
My name is Allan Gois, I am an experienced and qualified psychoanalytic psychotherapist in the City of London - Bloomsbury. Through psychoanalytic psychotherapy I can help you take a deep look into your life and your difficulties, so you can find a fresh perspective and bring about significant change in you. I have many years' experience in helping people understand themselves better and work through difficult problems, conflicts and struggles in life. Psychotherapy can help you find meaning in your life.
You may have come here because you find yourself in a relationship crisis or feel stuck, unable to control your feelings and move forward in life. Perhaps you find yourself having panic attacks, or depressed, or maybe even struggling with unusual symptoms that make you afraid of losing your mind. Change is a process that result from important decisions. Recognising your issues and understanding that you need the help of a qualified professional is the first step towards a thorough transformation.
Psychotherapy will provide a safe and non-judgemental space to explore your most inner thoughts, feelings and difficulties, which will help you understand yourself better and move on.
As a psychoanalytic psychotherapist I will help you think carefully about what may still be unconscious to you: past memories, difficult feelings and conflicts that play a part in how you behave and relate to others in the present.
All in all, through psychoanalytic psychotherapy you can expect to acquire:
When you realise you need professional help for your struggles and make contact with Allan Gois - Psychotherapist in Bloomsbury, you will be invited to come for an initial consultation.
The initial consultation takes place over the first 2 to 4 meetings, where you and I can discuss your circumstances, your needs and see how we could work these out in psychotherapy. We will look at length into what your problems may be related to and think about how psychotherapy can help you.
The consultation is also an opportunity for you to see how it would feel working with me in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, as well as to address any questions you might have about the process.
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy provides a space for thinking freely, where you will be encouraged to speak your mind as the psychotherapist helps you understand the meaning underneath what you are communicating.
Some feelings and experiences in life can be so unbearably painful that we will do everything to protect ourselves against them. We may try to push them out of our conscious mind, but many times these difficult aspects of ourselves can be so deeply buried that we may become unaware of their effects in our everyday life.
Present symptoms (i.e, depression, panic attacks, OCD), conflicts, extreme behaviours and destructive patterns are all influenced by what has been pushed back into our unconscious mind. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy will work towards bringing it all back to consciousness, where they can be thought about, understood, integrated and worked through.
Statistics show that between 8 and 12% of the world’s population suffer from depression in any given year (The Office for National Statistics Psychiatric Morbidity report, 2001)
Depression is different from mere sadness or just feeling down. It debilitates those who suffer from it, often dragging on for weeks, months and sometimes years. It tends to be recurrent, bringing about feelings of despair, hopelessness, powerlessness, self-hatred, anger, anxiety and apathy, making life very difficult. But there is help.
Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) is a type of brief psychodynamic psychotherapy, which is currently being set up nationally in the NHS as a mode of treatment for mild to moderate depression and anxiety. The therapy endeavours to help the patient understand and work through feelings, thoughts and patterns of relationship that contribute to depression.
Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) focuses on how the person sees him/herself and how he/she experience others, and the feelings that result from this interaction. DIT concentrates on relationships and feelings, helping the person identify and work through unhealthy patterns, misconceptions and painful feelings associated with depression. This will help the person develop and change in the way they deal with such difficulties.
Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy has two main objectives:
Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy aims to help those suffering with mild to moderate depression. See your GP if you are uncertain about the severity of your symptoms.
Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy is time-limited and takes place over the course of 16 weekly sessions.
The fee for DIT is £85 per 50 minutes session.
Please contact me if you are interested in pursuing Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy or would like to know more this type of treatment.
I am a BACP registered and accredited Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist working in London (Bloomsbury - WC1), with over 14 years' experience practicing psychotherapy with clients coming from a wide range of backgrounds and presenting the most diverse of issues.
I have experience working both in Private Practice and in the NHS. Throughout my career I have also worked with different institutions and organisations, providing psychotherapy services to individuals and groups. My experience has helped me to develop a non-judgmental, empathic and flexible approach, learning from each client and adapting with each therapy.
I can also provide therapy in Portuguese and Spanish.
I have worked in psychotherapy with clients and patients coming from many different countries and cultures, in different stages and circumstances of life and presenting a great variety of issues. Some of the difficulties I have helped clients with are:
I am part of the South London Psychotherapy and Counselling Service (SLPCS).
I am fully qualified, accredited and insured to practice psychotherapy in the UK.
I am registered with the following Health Insurance Providers:
*Please note that the fees for Health Insurance Providers may be higher.
*Please consult your provider in regards to your cover, policy and procedure to receive treatment.
Contact me for an initial consultation, or if you have any queries about how psychoanalytic psychotherapy could help you. My quiet and discreet psychotherapy consulting room in London is located in Bloomsbury, very near Kings Cross Station.
