Aishling Partridge

I work collaboratively with adults experiencing a range of mental health challenges including anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, eating disorders, self-harm tendencies and feelings of isolation. By developing awareness and understanding of challenges to personal and workplace relationships like conflict, impasse and rupture, the potential for progress and growth can emerge.

As a Psychodynamic Psychotherapist registered with the British Psychoanalytic Council and the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, I offer adults in-depth and short-term psychotherapeutic treatment. 

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy is rooted in the concept of exploring unconscious mental processes and recurring patterns of behaving and relating which may be causing emotional and physical symptoms. It is a talking therapy aimed at bringing into awareness unknown aspects of the self which feel vulnerable and which need care and expression.

Most difficulties were, at one time, adaptive solutions to life challenges which over time and changes in circumstances have become self-defeating. I work with you to develop an understanding of the relationship between your early developmental experiences in the context of current life mental health challenges.

Habits of relating might be repeated in the therapeutic relationship and this can be thought about together. This is known as transference. Experiencing and reflecting on transference patterns in the therapy allows increasing awareness to open up and brings a ‘here and now’ dimension to the experience of therapy and the search for self-awareness and acceptance.

We would work together to create a relationship that enables you to experience being understood which, in itself, generates a sense of security from which to explore your emotions more freely and confidently – freeing up the bonds to past experiences helps you to live more fully in the present and move towards a more satisfying, contented and fulfilling life.

Embarking on a therapeutic relationship is an important step towards self care. As a therapist, I abide by a professional code of ethics to act with honesty and integrity to protect you and your boundaries. I provide a confidential, safe environment, listening with tolerance and empathy and providing challenge when it’s needed.

My practice is located in London Bridge, in close proximity to the mainline and underground station. and nearby Borough Market In Fitzrovia, the practice is located a short walk from Goodge St and Oxford Circus tube stations.

Therapy sessions last for 50 minutes and take place at the same time each week.

I have a policy of charging for missed sessions both as a recognition of the value of my time but also the importance of engagement in order for therapy to happen and to afford it the best opportunity to be a transformative and helpful process.

Before beginning therapeutic treatment, there is an initial consultation. The time allowed for this consultation is 90 minutes with normal weekly therapy sessions lasting for 50 minutes thereafter. The experience of the consultation should give you a better understanding of whether the psychodynamic approach is suited to your current needs, how I work and how we might work together.

It is useful to consider why you are seeking therapy before attending the initial consultation, which areas of your life you are grappling with and what your desired outcome for therapy would be - how things can be different from how they have been.

Towards the end of the consultation we will discuss how to move forward. If we find that this type of therapy is not best suited to your present needs, I will endeavour to recommend alternative routes to seeking help if these seem more appropriate (including group therapy, CBT, CBT-E and addiction-focused therapy).