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Sandalwood
Farnham Road Hospital
Guildford
GU2 7LX
United Kingdom

Telephone: 01483 443 683

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Consultant Psychiatrist: Dr Scott Ferris

Psychodynamic psychotherapy is a talking therapy which aims to help people understand what their past relationships and experiences mean to them and how they affect their lives now.

Difficult experiences throughout life can have lasting effects on how we think and feel, and the way we relate to other people around us. Some of these links may be easy to understand, but there may be others of which we are less well aware, and yet they lead us to feel and behave in ways we don’t understand, and seem unable to change.

Some of these difficulties are likely to emerge in the relationship with the therapist, who is trained to help people to identify and gain control over these feelings and behaviours.

We offer individual and group psychotherapy plus there is also an 18-month MBT (Mentalisation-Based Treatment) programme aimed specifically at those with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder. It is an intensive therapy programme, comprising an individual session and a talking therapy group.

Usually people will have had some brief intervention, either in primary care or CMHRS, before being referred to more specialist psychotherapy.

Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm

If you are over the age of 18 you may be referred for a psychotherapy assessment by either your GP, or other health and social care professionals.