Psychotherapist
Patsy McGill
MSc, MBACP Accredited
Intensive Short-term Psychodynamic Psychotherapist (ISTDP)
About Patsy
Patsy is a psychotherapist and Accredited Member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She works within the attachment-based ISTDP (Intensive Short-term Psychodynamic Therapy) framework, having seen the positive impact its interventions can have on interpersonal, health, and psychological difficulties.
Training and experience
After completing the three-year Core Training in ISTDP in 2018, Patsy extended her learning through Advanced training courses. Her commitment to the model then led her to work as a shadower to Core Training groups - a further six years of close study, supporting trainees within those groups.
She has 14 years of experience as a psychotherapist in adult mental health, working across an IAPT service, Employee Assistance Programmes, and is currently in private practice. As well as offering ISTDP therapy, Patsy is also available as an ISTDP supervisor.
Her approach
Sometimes we unconsciously respond to life experiences - such as bereavement, work stress, or relationship difficulties - with anxiety, low mood, or self-sabotaging behaviours. As a psychodynamic psychotherapist, Patsy is particularly curious and experienced in exploring how unconscious processes may be contributing to these distressing symptoms.
She offers a warm and compassionate approach whilst identifying unconscious beliefs and processes which contribute to distress, low mood, and anxiety. She invites curiosity, precision, and rejection of unhelpful and self-sabotaging dynamics - while promoting self-compassion, self-care, and self-acceptance.
If you are seeking a deeper self-understanding - one that is curious, non-judgemental, precise, and self-compassionate - this approach may be suitable for you.
What Patsy can help with
Patsy works with adults aged 16 and over on a wide range of difficulties including bereavement, work-related stress, depression, anxiety, relationship problems, low self-esteem, and the impact of past attachment trauma on current life and relationships.