Sarah Reilly is an integrative psychotherapist using approaches which include psychodynamic, relational, somatic awareness and movement, processing through metaphor, image and the imagination.
Sarah can work with clients on:
• Low self-esteem and low confidence, self-doubt
• Life needs to change but person is unsure what needs to change
• Understanding and processing difficult family histories
• Childhood and adult trauma, including violence and sexual abuse
• Bereavement and loss
• Anxiety and depression; self-harm, suicidal ideation, intrusive thoughts and obsessive ruminations
• LGBTQ+ issues – shame and self-acceptance
• Gender confusion and/or gender dysphoria
• Confusion around sexual identity and/or orientation
• Relationship difficulties (not couples)
• Shame, understanding and reducing its affects
• Autism, understanding how it is personally expressed, and what it means for the individual
Sarah has worked as a creative for most of her life, across the modalities of music, drama and performance, writing, and visual arts, both professionally and within community based groups.
"Research shows that there needs to be identification and connection between client and therapist, it makes sense that creative clients will benefit from working with creative therapists. As a psychotherapist I feel I often do my best work with creative people, as I am able to offer my full range of capacities, experience, and insight. I have personal experience of creative processes: I understand the excitement of discovery and self-expression, as well as the blocks and the fear. I understand the challenges of working alone and often without structure – the isolation and difficulty to self-motivate, as well as the financial insecurity that often accompanies being a creative. I enjoy the colour and individuality that creative people often bring to psychotherapy – the quirkiness and imagination. I appreciate difference and celebrate humanity in all our diversity".