Jimi Katsis

Working with me is a two way commitment. To successfully treat the outcome of an abusive childhood we work to truly understand who you are. What issues you are dealing with in your day to day life. How your childhood traumas have come to define you, your reactions and your emotional responses. We work to unpack the journey you have been on, to understand what happened to you and the resulting effect on you as an adult. Often these experiences are known as CPTSD, or complex Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. Complex because childhood trauma / abuse is rarely a singular event. It is usually many events over the course of years. Often, each one adding a different layer and an additional element of damage. There is no "quick fix" for these embedded ideas of how the world works, it's a process. Unpicking, discovering and learning. Safely exploring what those experiences did to you and how they impact your mental health today. I work at the same time to offer a range of refined tools that help to manage distress, anxiety and depression. The deeper the process the greater the use of the tool set. The ultimate goal is to create peace in a noisy and overwhelmed mind and to engage fully in a life of your choosing. One that allows you to develop a freedom to express and be fully engaged with you life. My practice is focused and committed to the best therapeutic standards. As an integrative therapist i am not focused on just one type or style of therapy. I use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic models. I also use a Schema therapeutic approach and family systems theory to name just some of the modals i have studied. My feeling is that complex problems need a whole range of approaches to be successful. No two people are the same, no two experiences are the same and although we can apply some general therapeutic principles, i have learned from over 30 years in practice that connecting to another human is not a single theory approach. More than that to offer a therapeutic process, being human is as important as clinical experience especially critical when working with people who have no good reason to trust anyone. If you'd like to meet me, i offer a free initial consult so we can work out if i can help.