Innes Meek
Individual Therapy
Innes Meek
Professional Profile:
I work with adults who want to gain a better understanding of themselves and their relationships, with a particular focus on navigating questions of intimacy, confidence, and identity. You might feel stuck in familiar patterns, unsure how to change them, or dissatisfied with how things are.
My way of working is relational, in that I will seek to build a relationship with you (which I hope isn't as contrived as it may sound: it’s based on a premise that all people are capable of forging and maintaining meaningful relationships) and use this relationship to model and explore some of the most challenging aspects of your life (even, at times, the most ostensibly mundane!). I will encourage you to reflect on your past - your childhood, parents, early friendships, wider family - as this is often a helpful way to understand the present.
My practice is primarily psychodynamic, informed by existential ideas about identity, responsibility, and meaning. I’ll also often seek to delve into our shared cultural influences to try to bring clarity to what can be complex emotions and feelings.
I see adults of all genders and backgrounds, and have particular experience working with men around the pressures and expectations that shape emotional life — including ideas about success, self-reliance, sex, and masculinity.
Some of the issues I work with include:
Men, identity, and expectations
Many men grow up with strong ideas about how they should be — confident, capable, in control — while having little space to consider their struggles or fallibilities. Looking at what it means for you to “be a man”, reflecting on your place in in the patriarchy, or even considering how much you differ from - or align with - your dad and other male role models, can be fertile ground to explore some of the most pertinent and deepest challenges you may be facing.
Confidence, stress & anxiety
Pressure at work, in family life, or from self-criticism can build over time. Rather than trying to “fix” these feelings, I will seek to work with you to help you understand what your stresses are and how they manifest. It can often be the case that awareness and, perhaps, tolerance of the things that affect you most deeply can be hugely liberating.
Parenting & family life
Becoming a parent often brings major changes to identity and relationships. Alongside commitment and care, there may be exhaustion, resentment, or a sense of being sidelined. I will encourage you to think about these experiences, perhaps in way that there is not much space for at home.
Relationships & intimacy
Difficulties in dating, long-term relationships, or sexual intimacy evoke all kinds of difficult and even painful emotions. I will encourage you to look at the pain and consider it, confront it. The subjects we explore may be painful, taboo even, but discussing them can provide enormous benefits to you.
Training and Qualifications:
- MA - Psychotherapy and Counselling, Regent’s University London
- PgDip - Psychotherapy, Regent’s University London
- Certificate - Psychotherapy and Counselling, Regent’s University London
Professional Bodies:
BACP Registered Member
UKCP Accredited
Fees
Individual Sessions: £90
