Joel Levy

I offer regular daytime/early evening sessions, face-to-face in south west London.

鈥淭he past influences everything and dictates nothing.鈥�  (Adam Phillips)                

I am a fully qualified and accredited psychodynamic counsellor and psychotherapist. I work in private practice and in the NHS across a wide range of issues and with people from many different backgrounds.

I offer a confidential and thoughtful space in which we can explore your feelings, thoughts and relationships.  Psychodynamic psychotherapy is based on the idea that our present difficulties are often shaped by earlier experiences and by patterns that operate outside our immediate awareness.  Together, we would seek to understand these patterns 鈥� including how they may emerge within the therapeutic relationship itself.

This work is not only about symptom reduction, though that may occur.  It is about developing a deeper understanding of yourself and your recurring ways of relating, so that the past need not unconsciously organise your future.

I work with adults of all ages, backgrounds and identities.

People come to see me for many different reasons, including depression, anxiety and stress; low self-esteem and self-sabotaging thoughts and behaviours; loss, grief and bereavement; persistent feelings of sadness, emptiness, emotional numbness or stuckness; guilt, anger, hate, envy and jealousy; obsessive or intrusive thoughts and compulsive behaviours; difficulties in forming and sustaining satisfying relationships; challenging work or life transitions; and questions about identity 鈥� including experiences of feeling misunderstood, projected upon, masked, or disconnected from others.

Often these difficulties are complex and deeply personal.  Our work would unfold at a pace that allows them to be thought about rather than managed away.

I offer regular sessions between one and three times weekly, typically on an open-ended basis.

Fees are 拢80 per session/consultation.

Once you get in touch by email, text or phone message, we will arrange a brief conversation to clarify what you are looking for and whether it is something I can offer.

If we decide to proceed, we will meet for a 50-minute consultation. This provides an opportunity for you to experience how I work and for us to consider together whether ongoing psychotherapy is likely to be helpful.  Reaching that view may take more than one meeting.