Associates
For over 25 years, John Beveridge has worked with people in recovery from addiction, trained as an attachment - based psychoanalytic psychotherapist and has studied at the Institute of Group Analysis.
Although people strive to find happiness, there exist, below the level of consciousness, compulsions to repeat the dynamics we experienced in childhood relationships, which often become unhelpful and self-destructive.
John believes that in life, "we create, promote and allow everything that happens to us".
The stories we tell ourselves about our lives are often based on core beliefs, which were formed in early experiences of trauma and loss, leaving the feeling that we have little choice in what happens to us. Psychotherapy can help us to identify harmful patterns in order to recognize and mourn losses, which have arisen from the choices we have made. Over time, the therapeutic relationship can release creative energy to help us to change our lives for the better, by making healthy decisions from an increasingly solid sense of Self.
John teaches psychotherapists-in-training at various institutes in the areas of; addiction, dissociation, sexuality and gender, object relations and attachment theory. He supervises psychotherapists, counsellors and leaders of therapeutic groups, is registered with the UKCP, which operates a code of ethics and is a member of the Forum of Independent Psychotherapists (FIP).
Deborah Davies BA, MA, UKCP registered integrative psychotherapist with a private practice in central and north London.
She has years of experience working with addiction and has a special interest in issues around loss and grief.