Melanie Clews is a group analytic psychotherapist, offering group and individual psychotherapy, in London and online.
MA (Academic), MSc (Group Analysis), Member IGA, UKCP Reg, Supervisor (IGA)
With around 20 years of experience working in the area of mental health, my approach as a psychotherapist has evolved to work flexibly with people’s differing therapeutic needs, with the focus on each person’s specific needs remaining at the core.
Welcome
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I offer psychotherapy for individuals and in groups.
The groups I facilitate take place either once or twice weekly.
Individual sessions are once weekly.
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I offer supervision individually and in groups.
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Group Psychotherapy with a Training Group Analyst.
I offer group psychotherapy for people who are preparing and training to qualify as a group therapist or group analyst.
This is also open to those just wishing to explore, within the space of group psychotherapy, this aspect of their interest in groups.
I offer individual consultations to anyone wishing to have a space to consider and explore their thoughts and plans for future psychotherapy training.
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About psychotherapy
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Psychotherapy / psychodynamic psychotherapy is among many talking therapies that offer the possibility of a deeper insight into ourselves, our difficulties and our relationships. These insights, developed over time within a safe therapeutic space, can enable the emotional changes people may want to make; to understand themselves better, leading to changes within themselves and in their lives.
People come to therapy for a variety of reasons, sometimes these are quite clear, and can include:
° past and present relationship difficulties °loss and bereavement ° depression and anxiety ° feelings of emptiness °traumatic experiences ° body image concerns ° issues relating to intimacy and/or gender, sexual identity and sexuality
Often people come for help with family or work related problems. For others seeking therapy, the reasons are less clear - just a sense that life and relationships don’t feel ok.
People look for help to understand negative thought patterns, compulsive behavioural patterns, and problems in relating to others. These may be causing feelings of distress and may be having a negative impact on mental health, everyday life or feelings about the future.
For some, emotional and mental health difficulties and isolation link to feelings of difference and exclusion, and social and/or cultural dislocation.
Such issues can be present in family, social and work groups whereby people feel a sense of uncertainty about where they belong.
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I work with people who live diverse lives and are from a range of backgrounds. This requires sensitivity within group and individual psychotherapy to specific issues relating to themes of difference.
Talking to a psychotherapist over time can help start to make sense of how past experiences might link to current psychological and emotional patterns of relating. These patterns are likely to have developed over time.
My approach, whether working with individuals and/or groups, is psychodynamic (see next sections) in basis. This is an established and well regarded approach within the public and private sectors, and can be applied and adapted to suit differing needs for people struggling with different problems.
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To establish what type of therapy you are looking for and that may be the most beneficial, we would arrange an initial consultation. This provides a space to think about and explore the type of therapy that most fits your needs.
Group Psychotherapy
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Group Psychotherapy is a well established talking therapy that takes place in confidential small groups of about or up to eight people.
Group members are carefully selected and taken through a process of preliminary individual consultations with the group therapist before joining a group.
This type of group therapy is usually considered a longer term therapy, allowing for the development of trust within the group. This can lead, through getting to know each other and through exploration, to the deepening of relationships within the group – and potentially to an improvement in people’s mental health, lives and relationships outside of the group.
The group psychotherapy I offer can sometimes be referred to ‘Group Analytic Therapy’. This is a specialised form of group therapy (or Group Analysis).
Offering this type of therapy requires an extensive training rooted in clinical experience.
This type of group therapy is grounded in ideas and therapeutic practice developed from psychoanalysis, social psychology, and the study of group dynamics.
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Becoming or losing ourselves through the way we relate to others:
We become ourselves through the way we relate to other people. And through the way others relate to us. For many who are considering group therapy, connections with others may have left them feeling isolated and have caused some anxiety or distress. This specific form of group therapy explores both how we see ourselves and our experiences, and also how others see us. Over time in a group, when enough trust has developed - in a safe and confidential space - group members listen to each other and find ways to talk about what they feel is important, and to make the changes in their lives that feel important.
Individual Psychotherapy
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