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Psychotherapy & Analysis

Understanding yourself and the life you’re living

Online and in-person psychotherapy in Glasgow, and online internationally.

Addressing the root causes driving your problems, so that you can develop the capacity to live with greater freedom, meaning, security, and authenticity.

  • Understand What is Happening

    Make sense of your difficulties before deciding what kind of help you need.

  • Go Beneath the Surface

    Understand the origins of experiences, and the root causes underlying present symptoms, habits, or difficulties.

  • Trauma & Complex Trauma

    Explore how difficult past experiences may continue to influence present emotions, relationships, and everyday life.

  • Relationships & Attachment

    Recognise recurring relationship patterns and discover different ways of relating.

  • Mind & Body

    Understand the important relationships between emotions, bodily responses, stress habits, lifestyle, self-care, and the nervous system.

  • Meaning & Authenticity

    Clarify what matters to you, who you are, who you want to be, and how you want to live.

  • A Way of Working That Fits You

    Whether focused, brief work, or longer-term, in-depth psychotherapy and analysis, all work is driven by your needs, choices, and aims.

  • Start With an Introductory Meeting

    Talk about what's happening in your life, what you hope to change, and whether working together is right for you.

Stephen Forrest, Psychotherapist | BA (Hons), MA (Psych), MA (Ex.Psych)

I’m a psychotherapist with 27 years of clinical experience in NHS and private practice, working with individual adults in Glasgow and online with English-speaking patients in the UK and abroad.

I work with people who may have been struggling for years with the effects of trauma, difficult relationships, loneliness, insecurity and anxiety, dread and shame, depression, overwhelm, an insecure or vulnerable sense of self, loss, or a persistent sense that something in their lives is not quite right.

You may have already tried therapy. Perhaps you have received a diagnosis or different forms of treatment. You may even have learned to function remarkably well while carrying inner pain or struggles that have never really been resolved.

Or, you may simply want a deeper understanding of yourself and your life.

My approach is to look beyond symptoms and understand the deeper causes and patterns underlying your difficulties. My aim is to understand the person and their circumstances as fully as possible, rather than simply apply a particular technique or fit your difficulties into a predetermined explanation.

This also means recognising that our difficulties do not arise in isolation. Human suffering is not simply the consequence of so-called mental illness. It is also an expression of the difficulties people experience in adapting to the conditions of their lives: their families, workplaces, social groups and relationships; their societies and cultures; and, sometimes, their own sense of existence and the meanings that derive from it.

Our starting point is to start examining what is happening in your life: how you came to be where you are, what experiences and habits continue to shape or trouble you, and what keeps your difficulties going. We can then explore not only what you want to change, but also what you may need to examine and understand of your way of being, what truly matters to you, and whether the way you are living feels like your own.

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