Talk Therapy

Psychotherapist in Rushden, Northamptonshire, NN10 0SX

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About the Business

Donna Coupland is a BACP accredited counsellor and psychotherapist. She has an MSc in Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy from Birkbeck College, University of London. Donna also has three academic degrees, from De Montfort University (BA First Class Honours, 1999) University of Oxford (MSt, 2000) and the University of Leicester (PhD, 2004).

Donna works in private practice and is also an Associate Tutor and Supervisor on the MA in Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy at the University of Leicester. She is a counsellor for a number of Employment Assistance Programmes, including Health Assured and CIC and is a registered therapist with the private insurance provider Aviva.

Donna has worked in the NHS as a Senior Psychotherapist and was Clinical Manager at Rushden Mind for many years. She has a wealth of experience in working with mental health and psychological issues, having worked full-time in the field since 2009. She has served as a therapist in a number of agency settings, including Luton Sixth Form College, Milton Keynes Mind, Northampton Counselling Service and the NHS Psychotherapy Service in Northampton.

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What is Psychodynamic Psychotherapy?

The aim of psychodynamic psychotherapy is to help you to bring about positive change in your life, by enabling you to be more aware of your underlying, often unconscious, thoughts and feelings. This is a gradual process in which your therapist listens attentively and non-judgementally to what you bring to the session.

They aim to help you connect with your feelings, and will be alongside you in trying to make sense of your experiences. This may involve making links between your past and present: our early experiences - our childhood, our family relationships, traumatic experiences we may have undergone - are very important in forming who we are and how we interact with others.This can leave us repeating patterns that we might want to break.

Therapy tends to be longer-term, over several months. Issues that may be complex and longstanding, will take time to unravel, and make sense of. The idea of long-term therapy can be daunting, but once you start, it becomes a valued part of your week.

Sessions are at the same time each week, as it is helpful to set aside a regular space for thinking about yourself and will help to manage the emotions that are brought up by therapy.