Clare Urmston

My current availability is on Friday or weekday evenings. 

My office is located in central York on St Saviourgate.

I am an experienced psychodynamic psychotherapist registered with the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) and the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (Â鶹ԭ´´). I work with both individuals an couples from my office in central York and within a specialist psychoanalytic service in the NHS. I am a warm and supportive therapist however offer a challenging approach which aims to facilitate understanding and growth. 

If you are having emotional difficulties, relationship issues or perhaps don’t understand what might feel wrong, psychotherapy can offer a space to try and make sense of problems. The relationship with the therapist can illuminate long term patterns and dynamics that you might not be aware of and provide an opportunity to understand yourself in new ways. This can be very freeing and can offer real psychological change. Psychodynamic individual work is weekly or twice weekly and tends to be a longer-term approach however shorter term therapy is also possible. 

I work with couples using a psychodynamic approach to understand problems and dynamics that can become stuck within a relationship. If you are looking for shorter term help in your relationship perhaps going through a crisis or considering separation, or a long-term approach to address repeated patterns that are perhaps hard to understand, psychodynamic couple therapy can help. This is an approach that can help to make sense of the roles we might get stuck in, relationship patterns that might link to childhood experiences or how internal conflicts and unresolved issues can be lodged within our relationship dynamics. It can also be helpful in addressing why some couples find it impossible to separate but are unsatisfied in their relationship.

If you are interested in couple therapy, please see the link below for an opportunity for a low fee therapy.

https://www.britishpsychotherapyfoundation.org.uk/find-a-therapist/low-fee-couple-psychotherapy/

My approach aims to use the therapeutic relationship to address the underlying causes which might originate in the past but continue to impact on your life and relationships. This can be effective when there are repeated patterns or problems which you cannot make sense of. It is an exploratory approach which can feel unstructured but allows the opportunity for you to explore yourself in a way that is often not possible in other relationships. 

I offer psychodynamic supervision to professionals looking to develop their practice and explore psychodynamic ways of working. If you are a counsellor or psychotherapist with an interest in this, please contact me to discuss arrangements. This can be on a weekly, fortnightly or monthly basis. I also work with trainees completing psychology, psychotherapy or counselling training. Please contact me with any queries or to arrange an initial consultation so we can consider if this approach might be helpful.

Please email me if you have any further questions. 

Fees

Individual therapy £65

Couple therapy £75

Registrations

British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC)

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (Â鶹ԭ´´)

Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)

Qualifications

Couple Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (ongoing with the British Psychotherapy Foundation)

Intercultural Psychodynamic Clinical Training (Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust)

MSc Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic Research and Practice (University of Exeter)

Diploma in Mental Health Nursing (University of York)