Bert-Jan Zuiderduin

I have over 12 years of experience working with a wide range of individuals, couples and groups in a warm, compassionate and confidential environment, helping to re-find confidence, creativity and connection with your authentic self, to make better choices and improve relationships.

Having an interest in unconscious meanings and processes, I integrate psychoanalytic and especially Jungian approaches in an open and creative way, for instance, when working with dreams, personal or interpersonal experiences. There is a wealth of evidence showing that the benefits of psychodynamic therapy increase with time and that they bring continued improvement even long after the therapy has ended, reaching beyond symptom relief.

In addition to work with the unconscious, external relationships and the influences from the past that shape our "internal world", I am particularly interested in the different "parts" (or sub-personalities) that each of us have within ourselves, born from identifications with important figures in our lives or as responses to powerful life events.

Key to my work is to "listen" with deep empathy to what different parts you are bringing up in our session and to help create some coherence, some dialogue between them.

I have undertaken group work training at the Institute of Group Analysis (IGA) and work as a group therapist at Room to Heal in Islington, supporting refugees and survivors of human rights violations. I work in an LGBTQ+ affirmative way.

I usually arrange for one or two initial sessions, as an opportunity for us to discuss in more detail the issues you would like to bring. This will help both of us form an idea of how I could help you and what the therapy will be like. We can then agree to meet for certain number of sessions or for an open-ended, longer period.

Sessions are offered in-person in Battersea or Chiswick, as well as online