Anthony Macgregor King
One steps through a doorway and into therapy for a host of reasons. Away from the hustle-bustle of the world, the therapeutic process unfolds. Seated comfortably, elsewhere, one becomes aware that one has been granted – or has granted oneself – the possibility of exploring…
I help in the exploring process. In the sorting through and the shifting, of emotion, reminiscence, memory, pain, questioning, doubt, loss. Sometimes guiding. Frequently reassuring. On occasion suggesting. If not commenting, then prompting. At times challenging, gently. Always listening.
Out of a creative mixture of the shared work in the therapeutic dialogue, solutions emerge. In pragmatic terms, one learns to perceive and join up the dots that really matter – the essential ones, for they are so often found where one least expected them. And between what is felt and its articulation in words, a path emerges. A workable path. One that is, more often than not, wholly singular. The result of an exchange unlike any other, mutually engaged in the hope – and the quiet trust – that something will be rediscovered.
I am a French trained Clinical Psychologist. I hold a Masters in Clinical Psychology and Psychopathology. I have been practising for nearly twenty years. I consult in both English and French.