Online Depth Psychotherapy
Across the UK
A soul-oriented approach to life's difficulties and possibilities
MA, registered with the HCPC
Welcome
Based in Newport, South Wales, I work online with adults across the UK.
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Depth psychotherapy offers an opportunity to explore your life as a whole, giving us time to make sense of your experience and how it has taken shape over time. This work is informed by an understanding that our personal experience is influenced by the wider cultural, social and environmental life in which we all participate.
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In a welcoming therapeutic relationship with clear boundaries, we can make space for what feels painful or limiting, alongside what brings vitality, meaning and connection. Creativity and spiritual experience can have a place when they are important to you, and there is room for lightness and humour as well as serious work.
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This broader view shapes how I meet you as a whole person, rather than a problem to be solved. I describe my practice in terms of the approach I offer, rather than a list of diagnoses or difficulties. Words such as depression or anxiety can be important ways of describing what you are experiencing, but they don't tell the whole story. Your longings and the possibilities you sense matter too, even if they are not yet clear.
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I qualified in 2013 and am registered with the HCPC as an Art Psychotherapist. I bring more than 18 years of professional experience across mental health, social care and private practice, alongside a longstanding engagement with art, psychological life and spiritual enquiry.
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How to contact me and begin therapy
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I currently have availability for new clients.
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Contacting a therapist can feel like a significant first step, and I appreciate the courage this can require.
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In your message, all you need to include is a brief outline of what has led you to consider therapy and what you hope to explore or change. There is no need to mention personal or sensitive details at this stage.
You are welcome to contact me using the form at the foot of the website, or email me directly at APhillipsPsychotherapy@gmail.com to make an enquiry or ask any questions.
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Following an exchange of emails, if it seems that my approach may be suitable, we can arrange a 75-minute initial meeting, charged at the usual session fee. This gives us time to talk about your circumstances, answer any questions you may have, and consider whether beginning therapy with me might be helpful.
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I usually respond within 48 hours unless I am away from the practice.
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If you do not see my reply, please check your spam folder, as messages are sometimes filtered.​​​​​
What brings you to therapy?
There are many reasons to begin therapy. You may be facing a particular difficulty or transition, wanting to understand something that keeps recurring, or simply looking for a space to explore your life and what matters to you. You don't need to arrive with a clearly defined problem or goal.
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The questions bringing you to therapy might sound something like:
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Why do I feel held back from living in a way that feels more fully my own?
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Why do certain emotional or relational patterns keep returning?
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What matters enough to shape the way I live?
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What place might creativity or spiritual experience have within my life?
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How is my relationship with the natural world affecting the way I feel and live?
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What is changing in my life, and how might I want to respond?
What might become possible through therapy?
The direction of therapy cannot always be known at the beginning. You may arrive with particular hopes for change, while discovering other possibilities through the work itself.
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Over time, therapy may help you to:
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Live with a stronger sense that your life is your own, while remaining connected to the people and responsibilities that matter to you.
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Respond differently to patterns that have previously felt difficult to change.
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Develop a more trusting relationship with your inner experience, including parts of yourself that may feel conflicted or difficult to understand.
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Give greater place to imagination and to the forms of inspiration that bring life or direction.
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Explore spirituality as a living part of your experience while remaining grounded in everyday life.
Online psychotherapy in the UK
I work online with adults across the UK. Meeting remotely makes regular psychotherapy possible wherever you live, without the time or practical demands of travelling to a consulting room.
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Although we meet through a screen, the work can still develop continuity and psychological depth when you have a private space in which to give the session your full attention.
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👉 Further information about how online therapy works can be found on this page.
The value of soul-oriented psychotherapy
By soul-oriented, I don't mean that you need to hold particular spiritual beliefs or share a fixed understanding of what the soul is. I use the word to describe an interest in what makes your life feel alive, meaningful and deeply your own, and in what can become lost when you feel disconnected from what matters.
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This includes attention to the qualities that make a person, a relationship, a place or a work of art feel soulful. For some people, it also includes spiritual experience or a sense of connection with something beyond the individual self.
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A soul-oriented approach takes suffering seriously, while also making room for creativity, longing, inspiration and the possibilities that may emerge through a fuller understanding of your life.
My approach to psychotherapy
As an Art Psychotherapist, I work with both verbal and image-based forms of expression.
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Our work may take place through conversation, image-making, or a movement between the two, depending on what feels most helpful and appropriate.
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There is no expectation that you use art materials, and no artistic experience is required. Equally, if you prefer to work primarily through images, you are very welcome to do so.
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My approach is informed by depth psychology, particularly Jungian and psychodynamic thought. I also draw on ecopsychology and remain open to spiritual perspectives where these are meaningful within your life.
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Theory informs how I think, but the work begins with the particular person in front of me. I believe psychotherapy is most valuable when it allows genuine exploration while remaining grounded in the realities of everyday life.​
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👉 Read about Depth Psychology and how it informs my practice.​​
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👉 Learn more about Art Psychotherapy and the use of images within sessions.
If you are feeling uncertain about beginning therapy...
It is understandable to have questions or reservations about beginning therapy.
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This may be your first experience of therapy, and the process might feel unfamiliar. Previous experiences may also have left you hesitant about meeting another therapist.
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Whatever your concerns, I encourage you to let me know about them. They do not necessarily mean that we cannot work together or that psychotherapy is not right for you. Conversations of this kind can become an important part of where the work begins.
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👉 In this article I address familiar concerns about beginning therapy.​​​​​
Will online depth psychotherapy be right for you?
Psychotherapy can be challenging as well as rewarding. Meaningful change rarely happens all at once, but develops through experience and reflection over time. There may be moments of clarity, followed by the slower work of allowing a new understanding to enter everyday life.
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The therapeutic relationship is central to this process. Rather than simply offering advice or solutions, we pay attention to what emerges through our conversations and within the relationship we develop, always within clear professional boundaries.
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Depth-oriented therapy is often most beneficial when you are willing to:
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Reflect on your experience with curiosity rather than immediate judgement.
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Remain with questions that may not yet have clear answers.
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Work through difficult periods rather than valuing only moments of insight.
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Attend consistently and communicate clearly about practical arrangements.​
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It is important that we are a good fit, although this does not mean sharing the same worldview. I have worked with people from a wide range of backgrounds, and welcome clients who are genuinely curious about the process.
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👉 You can learn more about what happens in sessions, how the therapeutic relationship supports the work.
Session options, fees, and beginning therapy
I offer weekly and fortnightly psychotherapy sessions lasting one hour. ​
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The fee for a therapy session is £65.
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We begin with a 75-minute initial meeting, also charged at £65. If we both feel that beginning therapy would be helpful, we can make arrangements for further sessions. Equally, you are welcome to take some time afterwards to reflect before deciding whether to continue.
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👉 View full details of psychotherapy appointment times, session options and how therapy begins.
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If you are interested in exploring depth psychology, art, spirituality, nature or questions of vocation outside an ongoing psychotherapy relationship, I also offer separate Creative Consultations for these interests.
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👉 Find out more about Creative Consultations.
My background as an HCPC-registered Art Psychotherapist
I completed the three-year MA in Art Psychotherapy at Goldsmiths, University of London, qualifying in 2013. The training was grounded in psychodynamic psychotherapy and placed strong emphasis on the therapeutic relationship.
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My path into psychotherapy developed through many years of personal and professional engagement with the inner life, including experiences of psychotherapy at different points, and my longstanding practice as a visual artist. Both continue to shape the way I work today.
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👉 Further details about my experience as a psychotherapist and artist.
Frequently asked questions
You're welcome to get in touch
I currently have availability for new clients.
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If you would like to make an enquiry or ask any questions, you are welcome to contact me using the form below, or email me directly at APhillipsPsychotherapy@gmail.com
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It is helpful to include a brief outline of what has led you to consider therapy and what you hope to explore or change. There is no need to include sensitive or personal details at this stage.
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I usually respond within 48 hours unless I am away from the practice.
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If you do not see my reply, please check your spam folder and contact me again if necessary.
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I am registered with the HCPC and listed on the Counselling Directory.
