Lally Freeborn - Systemic Psychotherapy in Lewes
A compassionate approach to understanding, connection and acceptance
“There is no end to relationship. There may be the end of a particular relationship, but relationship can never end; to be is to be related”
Why can our relationships sometimes be so distressing?
Relationships, are so fundamental to our lives and yet they can cause us the most distress and at times feel incredibly complicated and difficult. I will support you to work through these difficulties and offer new ways of understanding the patterns and dynamics that so frequently keep being repeated. This will enable you to improve and strengthen the relationships that you want to keep and cherish and on the other side help you to distance and separate yourself from the ones you would rather leave behind. This can be achieved on your own or in collaboration with those important others with whom you are in a relationship.
Any change that you make will automatically impact on those around you, so individual therapy can be just as effective as joint or family work.
I am an experienced systemic family therapist who has trained and worked in a wide variety of specialist areas. I work with young people, parents, couples and families and treat each individual with the respect and thoughtfulness they deserve.
My approach
In order to meet a multitude of human needs, psychotherapy comes in all shapes and sizes, and finding the right fit for you can feel overwhelming. I take the view that if therapy, whatever its theoretical origin, allows you to feel heard, accepted, validated and understood then it is likely to be helpful.
Much will depend on the quality of the therapeutic relationship and how comfortable you feel within that relationship. Everyone is an expert on their own life, and my role as therapist is to facilitate conversations that will allow for new ways of understanding to emerge. Feeling undervalued, criticized or stuck in an unhappy relationship can dampen your mood; affect your overall sense of health and well-being; and impact on all areas of life.
What is psychotherapy?
“Psychotherapy is not making clever and apt interpretations; by and large it is a long-term giving the patient back what the patient brings. It is a complex derivative of the face that reflects what is there to be seen. I like to think of my work this way, and to think that if I do this well enough the patient will find his or her own self, and will be able to exist and to feel real.”
