Patricia Connolly is a psychotherapist working within a psychodynamic approach. She focuses on early life experience and relationships to help you understand how they shape who you are in the present. When you begin to more fully explore your emotions and attitudes you can find a deeper self–knowledge, which can also transform the way you relate to others.
Patricia has worked with clients in the creative industries to explore diverse issues including: social anxiety, sexuality, self-esteem, identity and relationships, shame, relationship difficulties, disordered eating, and problems in making emotional connections. She has a Masters degree in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and is an Accredited member of the BACP. She is also an experienced educator and trainer. Before becoming a therapist, Patricia was a film-maker and freelance journalist.
As someone who has spent a long time in the creative industries I feel I have some insight into the satisfactions and the precariousness of this kind of work. Engaging with the arts - in particular music, film and theatre - has always been hugely important to me as a means of understanding how human beings relate to the world and the sense we make of it. I think of psychotherapy as a creative act for both client and therapist and I would like to be able to help performers find ways to manage the pressures of their work while exploring their own psychological and emotional worlds.