Caryl Bagshawe trained as a psychotherapist at Regent’s College in London, and qualified there with a Postgraduate Diploma in Psychotherapy in 2000.

She has undertaken further training with couples at the Tavistock Clinic, and is very interested in how the impact of childhood experiences and patterns affect our closest relationships.

Caryl has worked as a psychotherapist in NHS hospitals in London and Southampton, and also in private practice. She sees people with varying degrees of psychological distress from moderate to severe. Although her approach is broadly psychoanalytic, her training also includes Existential Therapy which focuses on free will and the need for personal responsibility, action and authenticity. Her work is also informed by the ideas of Carl Jung, who expanded Freud’s view of the unconscious to include the collective unconscious and the shadow side of the personality.

Most people have experienced their difficulties for many years, and value a longer-term approach to understanding them. Sometimes people come to sessions more than once a week.

Above all, her aim as a therapist is to provide a safe and secure setting in which an exploration of the patient’s feelings, defences and unhelpful patterns of behaviour can take place. A clearer understanding can lead to feeling in control of feelings rather than being overwhelmed by them.

She works with young adults, adults and couples.Caryl Bagshawe is based in Belsize Park, London