Patricia Higgs

Professional profile:

I am a Relationship Counsellor and Psychosexual Therapist for couples and individuals. I studied and worked at the world renowned ‘Tavistock Relationships’ in London. I now see clients at East London Relationship Therapy, and at my Practice in Kent. I work with clients from a wide range of ages, backgrounds and sexual orientations.

I also have nursing training, which I hope helps to put clients at ease when talking about difficult issues around sexuality.

Sometimes being in a relationship can feel lonely. Perhaps you have issues that feel too difficult to address with your partner, such as depression, significant life changes, or worries about your sexual relationship. If you are currently single you might want to explore relationship patterns, or be struggling with depression and anxiety, or wonder why you find intimacy difficult.

Relationships can become stuck, or there may be a downward spiral of miscommunication and negative assumptions that results in each partner feeling trapped by the expectations of the other. I aim to untangle these very complex threads and dynamics.

I work in a Psychodynamic way, which means we think together about how your past experience of life and relationships may be impacting on how you are living today. Issues I deal with include:

• Breakdown in communication Constant or escalating arguments Affairs and betrayals

• Difficult family dynamics
• Loss and grief

• Sexual issues such as performance anxiety, pain, differences in desire, confusion about your sexuality, and porn addiction.

Training and Qualifications

• MSc in Psychosexual and Relationship Therapy (University of East London)(Tavistock Relationships) 

• PGDip in Couple and Individual Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy (University of East London)(Tavistock Relationships) 

• Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling (Westminster Pastoral Foundation) 

• RN Adult Nursing (University of Greenwich)
• BA (Hons) English/Art History (University of Leeds)

Professional bodies

• BACP: British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

• BSCPC: British Society for Couples Psychotherapy and Counselling

• COSRT: College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists
• ATSAC: Association for the Treatment of Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity

Fees and Availability

Please contact me for fees and availability

Contact details

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01732 838913

07772112039

www.Trishahiggscounselling.org