About Us
55 Gower Street is home to a group of qualified and highly experienced psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, who between us offer a range of analytic therapies for adults, couples, adolescents and children.
Working from a centrally located and beautifully appointed town house in the heart of Bloomsbury, central London, each of us is registered with a PSA approved professional body (www.professionalstandards.org.uk): either the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) (www.bpc.org.uk), the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) (www.psychotherapy.org.uk) or the Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP) (www.childpsychotherapy.org.uk) and adheres to a robust code of ethics and professional standards.
At 55 Gower Street, we share a commitment to provide high quality, ethical, safe, and confidential therapy services. To find out more about how we can help, please contact individual practitioners directly to discuss what they offer or to arrange an initial consultation. Fees are discussed with the individual therapist.
About Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis is an intensive form of psychoanalytic work that involves attending sessions with a Psychoanalyst four or five times a week, usually over several years. This form of work suits people who want to understand themselves and their difficulties at a deeper level. The additional space and time provides the opportunity to reach this deeper and more complex understanding of yourself and your difficulties.
The therapist will provide a safe, reliable and comfortable space for you to talk about yourself and what troubles you. You will agree regular 50-minute times with your therapist that will be kept for you for as long as the therapy continues. The details of what you discuss will be kept strictly confidential.
People only enter Psychoanalytic therapy or Psychoanalysis after a detailed consultation. Many find the consultation itself to be helpful and illuminating. The consultation is also an opportunity for you to experience the process of working with the Psychotherapist or Analyst and decide whether you want to continue. It is advisable to find a Psychotherapist or Analyst with suitable vacancies who could then meet you first for a consultation.
Our Practice Psychoanalysts
About Psychotherapy
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy is a well evidenced treatment developed from Psychoanalysis. It has been shown to be effective in treating a range of mental health problems. Sessions are at a regular time every week and you may be in treatment for several months or years. As with Psychoanalysis it is a talking therapy based on saying whatever is going through your mind. By working in this way, in a developing relationship with a therapist, you will be helped to become aware of hidden meanings and patterns in what you do that contribute to your problems.
This modality of treatment has been shown to be effective with:
Depression
Anxiety disorders
Eating disorders
Psychosomatic problems
Phobias
Relationship difficulties
Sexual problems
Personality difficulties
Psychoanalytic therapy is not recommended for the treatment of psychotic illness or those with ongoing addictions: but can be helpful after these problems have ended.
Our Practice Members for Psychotherapy
Our Associates for Psychotherapy
About Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy
Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy is an evidence-based treatment for infants, children and young people up to the age of 25 and their families who are experiencing emotional and psychological difficulties. Children and young people struggling with mental health problems may express their distress through their behaviour. This in turn can impact their relationships and stall their ability to reach their potential. The key is to emotionally connect with the young person so that they can gain a better understanding of their inner world and over time uncover and work through the source(s) of their distress.
Areas that we frequently work with include separation anxiety, issues around challenging behaviour and dysregulation, sense of self, social anxiety, depression, school refusal, self-harm, suicidal thoughts/ideation.
We also work with families, carers and professional networks in order to best understand and support with the emotional difficulties experienced by young people.
Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists are able to offer the following services:
Consultation
State of Mind Assessments
Assessment for individual psychotherapy
Short and long-term psychotherapy
Intensive Psychotherapy
Work with parents/carers to help them better understand their child’s developmental needs
Our Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists
Our Child and Adolescen Psychotherapy Associates
About Couple Psychotherapy
Couple relationships sometimes put partners in touch with feelings which they struggle to express to each other in words. When this happens, each can behave in ways which are inexplicable and hurtful to the other, and the relationship can give rise to a great deal of pain.
Couple psychotherapy is an evidenced based treatment, which has been shown to reduce relationship distress. BPC registered couple psychoanalytic psychotherapists have lengthy specialist training and extensive experience in helping couples in conflict.
Couple psychotherapy can be long term or short term, and offers help to couples of all social and cultural backgrounds and sexual orientations. Issues which are commonly considered include:
Communication difficulties
Parenting concerns
Affairs
Navigating separation and divorce
Depression or anxiety in one or both partners
Sexual problems
Conflict about money
Distressing repetitive arguments
Alienation and loneliness
The focus of the therapy is the relationship itself, as well as the two individuals in it. Couple psychotherapy helps the partners to become more aware of what is happening between them, and, over time, often to move away from blame towards empathy with each other.
The first step towards couple therapy is to arrange an initial consultation with a couple psychotherapist. The consultation is an opportunity for you both to tell the therapist something about your concerns, and to have an experience of working with the therapist. Couples often find that the consultation is helpful in itself, and it also assists them in deciding whether to begin ongoing therapy.
Our Couple Psychotherapists
Our Associates for Couple Psychotherapy
Our Practice Members for Psychotherapy
Our Associates
Getting Here
55 Gower Street
London WC1E 6HJ
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Parking: Pay & Display on Chenies street
Bus 14, 24, 29, 73, 390
Tubes: Northern Line: Goodge Street (4 minutes), Euston (10-12 minutes), Victoria Line: Warren Street (10 minutes), Metropolitan Line, Hammersmith and Circle Lines: Euston Square (5 min), Piccadilly Line: Russell Square (10 minutes), Central and Elizabeth Line: Tottenham Court Road (12 minutes)
Lioness Overground and Trains: Euston (10-12 minutes)