Alexander Wong

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Alexander Wong

I work with individuals, usually on an open-ended basis, either in North London (Archway) or at the Guild of Psychotherapists in South London (near Southwark Station). My psychotherapy practice is based on principles drawn from various traditions of psychoanalytic thought.

I approach the work on an understanding that there are many ways to live a life, and that the psychotherapist’s role is not to believe they know, or even to seek to know, what constitutes a ‘good’ or ‘healthy’ lifestyle, or ‘right’ choices, for the people they work with. These things can be decided only by each of us for ourselves. My role is to listen carefully to what people bring to the sessions, including what they may be bringing unconsciously, and to help them explore the concerns, conflicts, narratives and desires that seem to emerge.

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy, in my conception of it, allows the individual to feel that they are heard by another person, and to hear themselves, in new and different ways. This may help to loosen, or transform, some of the impasses in which they may feel themselves to be stuck, or to shift their position in relation to the difficulties they experience.

Accordingly, I do not offer advice or diagnosis. I listen, and I respond to what I think I may be hearing. The work is largely about an open attentiveness to the complexity of our inner and outer lives, our habits and patterns, our modes of relating to ourselves, others and the world. Its basic hypothesis is that there are aspects of our experience that may be more or less unknown to us usually (though they may affect us in important ways), but which can emerge helpfully in a therapeutic setting when we are able to speak freely, without taboos, in a safe, private and unjudgmental space.

Languages

 English 

Email

 alexwong.n10@gmail.com 

Types of therapy offered:

Individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy, once, twice or three times weekly, in person. (Online or by telephone when appropriate.)

Areas of interest:

I welcome people from all backgrounds and am open to all enquiries. I have particular experience, however, of working with younger adults and with those whose occupations (or preoccupations) are, in broad senses, artistic or academic.

Session types:

In Person, Online, Telephone

I work with:

Individuals

Qualifications and experience:

I am a trainee member of the Guild of Psychotherapists and abide by the Guild’s Code of Ethics.

ADDRESS

Fairbridge Rd, Archway, London N19 3EW, UK

ADDRESS

Nelson Square, London SE1 0QA, UK

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