Celia Hayes

Specialist in intensive, open-ended and long-term psychoanalytic therapy

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What to expect

If you decide you want to begin therapy, we will make an agreement to meet at the same time and on the same day or days each week for the ongoing work, which is open-ended.

These ongoing sessions last for 50 minutes each.

The therapy may be on a once-weekly basis, but it is also possible to meet more frequently (two or more times per week) for more in-depth psychotherapy or psychoanalysis if this seems appropriate.

Psychoanalytic Therapy

Psychoanalytic therapy can help with difficulties that have an emotional or psychological cause. All people experience emotional problems at some point in their lives, and these can often be dealt with without outside help. However, sometimes the problems remain hidden in our unconscious, and are repeated because current issues stir up feelings from the past and affect our ability to cope.

This sort of therapy is based on the idea that what we experience as a conscious difficulty may be a solution to an unconscious problem. Although we may sometimes try to get rid of these problems by keeping them out of our minds, these unconscious problems can make us behave in ways which are contrary to what is best for us, and even make us distressed or ill.

These unhelpful patterns of behaviour usually have their roots in relationships and events experienced in early infancy and childhood that may be re-activated by later trauma or stressful situations.

Psychoanalytic therapy provides an opportunity to explore and work through these unhelpful patterns by means of the relationship that develops between the client and the therapist. Unresolved feelings and patterns of our inner world can be expressed, played out, understood and worked through in the safe, private and confidential place offered by the therapist. In this safe setting emotional conflicts can be relived and new solutions found to old problems.

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Talk on the phone

We can arrange a convenient time to talk on the phone, to answer any questions you may have.

Book Appointment

I can offer some appointments in the early morning or evening, as well as in the daytime from Monday to Friday.

Send an email

I will usually respond within 24 hours

Beginning Therapy

You may have questions and concerns about beginning therapy, and so we begin with an initial consultation which provides an opportunity for you to talk through your reasons for seeking therapy at this time, and to enable us to think about whether psychoanalytic therapy can be of help to you. In order allow enough time to explore things in enough depth, this consultation will be longer than the usual session, or we may decide to have two 50 minute sessions which allows more time for reflection before you make a decision about whether to go ahead.

If you decide you want to begin therapy, we will make an agreement to meet at the same time and on the same day or days each week for the ongoing work, which is open-ended. These ongoing sessions last for 50 minutes each.
The therapy may be on a once-weekly basis, but for more in-depth psychotherapy or psychoanalysis we would meet more frequently (two or more times per week).

FEES
Fees are determined by the frequency of the therapy sessions per week and will be discussed at the initial meeting.

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Talk on the phone

We can arrange a convenient time to talk on the phone, to answer any questions you may have.

Book Appointment

I can offer some appointments in the early morning or evening, as well as in the daytime from Monday to Friday.

Send an email

Send me a message and I will usually respond within 24 hours

Contact Me

Ask a question or book an appointment below. 

07852 803667

Reading, Berkshire

celia.hayes@googlemail.com