Welcome

exploring what it is to be human

I bring everything I have got to the work.

I want to help you to find out how to be more fully yourself and to be free.

EMPATHY, engagement, ENTHUSIASM, expertise, experience, ECCENTRICITY... DREAMS

1. Client Quote: "The personal connection and support you provided was meaningful to me, and made talking with you far easier and more natural than with previous therapists"

2. Client Quote: "To put it simply, Rick was an excellent counsellor, he listened to everything I had to say and always understood, and he helped me reach a point in my life where I feel better than ever."

3. Client Quote: "Dream work with Rick has been a game changer in my healing journey. As someone who’s been written off as 'too complex' in the past, it’s been pivotal in honing in on what is affecting me in the present moment. This has helped target key areas to work on rather than the traditional approach of going in chronological order of life events. Uncovering the symbols in dreams from the unconscious mind is such a wonderful way to focus on what really matters right now. Rick is wonderful to work with, as he makes you feel accepted and safe. He provides detailed analysis of dreams, and has such a broad knowledge of different facets of psychotherapy that go hand in hand for a truly holistic approach. Dream work is, in my opinion, the piece I have been missing despite doing talk therapy, shadow work, inner child healing on my own, and Rick’s knowledge has been key to unlocking parts of myself I had forgotten or didn’t even know existed. I would highly recommend everyone do it if they can, even if they’re sceptical at first."

4. Client Quote: "I really want counseling with you, you understand how I feel, and you unpick what I am thinking and feeling, I have had three consultations with them and they aren't unpicking anything"

5. Supervisor Quote: "Rick, you are much better than most counsellors."

Free 30-60 minute Introductory Call.

Weekly Sessions: £45 per 60 minute session

Fortnightly Sessions: £60 per 60 minutes session*

*The rate for fortnightly sessions is priced to reflect the fact that I am unable to book weekly sessions in those time slots that are booked fortnightly.

No pedantic cut off point at 60 minutes, we stop each session when it's the right time to stop.

All my clients tell me that I am remarkably different from other counsellors or psychotherapists that they have seen. I think this is because of the intensity of my engagement, my imagination, enthusiasm and knowledge and my expertise and experience working with dreams and the unconscious, which is rare to find, and that when blended with an understanding of attachment theory and complex trauma therapy, become extremely powerful tools for psychological healing and personal growth. I also use my knowledge of the The Power, Threat, Meaning Framework (from the British Psychological Society, Clinical Division), to understand how the misuse of power in peoples lives contributes to mental and emotional distress.

I use empathy and honesty to try my best to really understand who you are and what it feels like to be you.

This forms a basis of trust and understanding which are the foundations of our work together.

Together we can explore your past and present, your family, childhood and relationships, your dreams and your unconscious to better understand patterns of feeling, thinking and behaving, how they fit together in yourself and in others, how this can affect your life and what you can do about it.

I work with the whole person, and I bring the whole of who I am to the work too. Working with me will never feel like a box ticking exercise or a meeting with a distant other who fakes engagement with technique.

My three main ways of working are Jungian Dream Work and Depth Psychology, Attachment-Based Psychotherapy and Complex Trauma Therapy and I fuse those to provide a multifaceted but coherent picture of who you are and to help you to identify, strengthen, and draw on the resources you have both consciously and unconsciously. I also use The Power, Threat, Meaning Framework developed by the clinical division of the British Psychological Society to understand how the misuse of power contributes to mental and emotional distress.

As well as these core techniques and modalities, I use ideas and techniques from person-centred counselling, mentalization-based therapy, mindfulness and Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy which is a general and non-specific form of cognitive behavioural therapy that can be specifically tailored to you.

I work with all kinds of adults at all stages of life, from young adults just starting out on their journey to greater independence, to older people, nearer my own age, taking the time to heal old wounds, reclaim lost or forgotten parts of the self, release repressed energies, and find new meaning and purpose in life.

Jungian dream work is powerful and effective for a wide range of people and it is particularly suited to those in the second half of life, who have achieved what was expected of them, socially, family-wise and professionally, but nevertheless feel unfulfilled and lacking meaning and life purpose. Dreams, when skillfully interpreted in a collaborative effort between us, can identify lost parts of the self that were put aside, perhaps in childhood, perhaps later, and point the way to how they can be reclaimed. Integrating these lost parts of self is a process of discovery of deep personal meaning. By bringing these forgotten parts back from the unconscious into consciousness, you become more complete, more whole, more in control of yourself, more fulfilled and more in touch with your life's personal meaning and purpose.

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will rule your life and you will call it fate." Carl Gustav Jung

"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind." Sigmund Freud

I work with individuals of all genders and sexuality.

I am especially happy to welcome neurodivergent people, including those with diagnoses of autism and ADHD and those with non-specific or undiagnosed neurodivergency and people with physical difference and/or disability.

I have moderate undiagnosed ADHD myself, and I especially welcome people with ADD and ADHD and I celebrate that personality style, which can be a superpower when it is understood and worked with.

I have an interest, some expertise and significant personal experience related to institutional discrimination and epistemic abuse (being silenced, excluded and having your perspective devalued, ignored or distorted), especially in social care and mental health care. I use the Power, Threat, Meaning Framework from the clinical division of the British Psychological Society to understand how the misuse of power creates and perpetuates mental distress of all kinds.

I have worked with many first and second-generation British people whose experience spans different cultural norms.

Perhaps you feel unable to be yourself with others? Feeling overwhelmed with emotions you don’t understand? Weighed down by past events? Locked into a cycle of toxic relationships? Unable to recover from an overwhelming loss? Struggling with patterns of feeling and behaviour related to childhood and family? Perhaps you are disabled, neurodivergent, on the autism spectrum and have found yourself in a world that does not seem to have been made with you in mind? Or maybe you've achieved what you thought you were striving for in life - family, career, success - but you find yourself still searching for meaning and purpose.

My aim is to empower you to be more fully yourself and to be free.

COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY FOR INDIVIDUALS

I AM NOT AN NPC:

Fed up with mediocrity, with cousellors and psychotherapists who are just 'running the program'. Who fill you with boredom. Who are thinking about their bank balance and where they will take their next holiday as they tell you your 50 minutes is up.

TIME FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT:

Don't put up with it anymore. I will give you two hours of my time for free and I guarantee you that you will encounter something different. A different level of engagement and extraordinary commitment. Insight and enthusiasm that you have not found with another therapist, because if you had you would not still be looking.

TIME FOR INSPIRATION:

i give each of my clients everything I have, I am not doing it for the money, I am not doing it for the power, I am doing it to celebrate life - your life and my life, and together we will go on an extraordinary journey and we will both learn about ourselves and about what it is to be more fully human. And in that process we will find psychological healing and growth.

FIND DEPTH AND MEANING IN LIFE:

"The smallest of things with meaning is with more than the greatest of things without" Carl Jung

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will rule your life and you will call it fate" Carl Jung

I have been broken too. I have the trauma and the pain, I have been only half myself and hijacked my own life over and over again. I am not better than you.

I am clever, imaginative with a broad knowledge of many modalities and a deep knowledge of some. I have my own dream journal of 150,000 words and I have struck out to find adventure and fulfillment and battled with my demons to find a life that is both extraordinary and deeply fulfilling and I will model that for you and give you all that I have to help you.

Together we will clear the way, find your unique path and begin the journey to psychological healing and growth.

07385 455241

rick@rkpsychotherpy.co.uk

Training, qualifications & experience

Qualifications

BSc Hons 2I

PgDip Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP Level 7)

Trained in The Dynamic Maturational Model of Attachment by Patricia Crittenden its Originator

Study

15 years of studying including Carl Jung (Dreams, Archetypes and the Unconscious), Carl Rogers (Person Centred Therapy), Aaron Beck et. al. (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy), Fonegy (Mentalization), Bowlby, Ainsworth and Crittenden (Attachment) and many others.

Dreams

Over 150,000 words of my own dreams, recorded, typed up and much of it analysed. This personal experience gives me an insight into the use of dreams that you can't get just from reading books (although I've got every book worth reading about dreams and dream therapy). I am currently developing a series of courses on dream interpretation, coming in late 2024. Find out more on my site rkdreamwork.co.uk.

Neurodivergence

I have personal experience of neurodivergence, I have been an unpaid full-time carer to a vulnerable adult who has mild autism and mild learning difficulties, and I have my own undiagnosed ADHD and complex trauma. I love difference, I thrive and do my best work with difference.

Welcome

exploring what it is to be human

EMPATHY, engagement, ENTHUSIASM, expertise, experience, ECCENTRICITY... DREAMS

COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY FOR INDIVIDUALS

Training, qualifications & experience

Qualifications

Study

Dreams

Neurodivergence

THERAPIES OFFERED

Attachment Theory and Complex Trauma

Jungian Depth Psychology, Psychodynamic Analysis and Dream Work

Difference, Discrimination and the Misuse of Power

Areas of counselling I deal with