Therapy for Psychosis, Schizophrenia & Bipolar Disorder

Living with psychosis, schizophrenia, or bipolar disorder involves more than symptoms alone. Individual experiences are unique and understanding each person’s history and context is a central part of psychotherapy.

People may find themselves feeling uncertain in relationships or struggling to hold onto a sense of meaning, confidence, or connection. These experiences can affect relationships, work, study, day-to-day life, and a sense of possibility for the future.

Therapy can provide a space to think together about what has happened, what matters now, and how these experiences affect your sense of self, relationships, and recovery more broadly.

Therapy Approach

My approach is informed by Metacognitive Reflection and Insight Therapy (MERIT) and relational psychodynamic therapy. This means I aim to offer a collaborative space to reflect on your experiences, relationships, identity, and the meanings you make of yourself, others, and your place in the world. Therapy is interested not only in symptoms and difficulties, but also in getting to know you more fully as a person.

I am interested in the person beyond symptoms or diagnosis, including strengths, struggles, hopes, fears, relationships, and sense of self. Recovery can look different for each person. It may involve rebuilding a sense of self, agency, meaning, connection, and possibility. We can think about this together.

Please get in touch if this sounds like a good fit for you.

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Yes. Therapy can work alongside psychiatric care and other supports to complement broader treatment.

  • Yes. Ongoing involvement from a psychiatrist and broader supports is an important part of your care team while seeing a psychologist in private practice. Therapy often works best collaboratively to support both psychological and medical care.

  • My work integrates relational psychodynamic therapy, supportive psychotherapy, trauma-informed approaches, and metacognitive approaches informed by MERIT (Metacognitive Reflection and Insight Therapy). Therapy focuses on supporting reflection, emotional understanding, identity, relationships, and making sense of experiences within a collaborative and non-judgemental space.

  • Therapy is often longer term in order to better understand recurring difficulties, emotional experiences, relationships, and the ongoing impacts of your difficulties.

  • You are welcome to get in touch to discuss your needs and whether the practice may be a suitable fit or whether another type of support may be more appropriate.

  • Therapy for psychosis, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and related experiences is usually most helpful when sessions are regular and there is enough time to build trust, understand your experiences, and support meaningful recovery.

    I generally recommend weekly sessions. This work is often longer-term, particularly when therapy is focused on sense of self, relationships, coping, identity, confidence, and making meaning of your experiences.

    We can discuss frequency in more depth during the assessment process.