You care for the world…
and as much as anyone, you yourself deserve your love
Pursuing Sustainable Development Goals is an exhausting emotional business. Perseverance will take you far but in the end your greatest resource is yourself and attending to that is often at the bottom of all your To Do lists. Disentangling the personal from the professional is fiendishly difficult. Demoralisation is a perpetual threat.
International development management is also stressful. A research study of stress among staff in financial institutions in the City of London chose an international human rights charity as their control group. To everyone’s surprise, the controls exhibited more stress than the intended study group. And that was at a time when the international order was respected.
What I can provide is informed integrative psychotherapy for those working in international development. It’s bespoke therapy uniting psychology with the SDGs and the Internal Development Goals in pursuit of your aims. You set the agenda. It’s personal to you.
I am an accredited psychotherapist and supervisor with a law degree from the University of Cambridge and a postgraduate diploma in International Development.
I understand the legal framework of public international law in which you work, and I have studied development management. For first hand experience I spent a summer volunteering in Sudan as a teacher of maths history, English and drama at the University of Khartoum. Another summer, I worked in Kuala Lumpur, researching charity fundraising.
My practice modality is integrative psychotherapy, which brings together your being, thinking, relating, collaborating and acting, i.e. the internal development goals. Integration grows self-awareness. It delivers self-care.
Cost
€100 per hour
My standard rate is €100 for 60-minutes by Skype (or a platform of your choosing). Concessionary rates are negotiable. If you’re in London or if I’m in Vienna I prefer to meet face to face for eco therapy, walking in a park.
Frequency
You decide
Weekly sessions are recommended because momentum is an important part of the therapeutic process but you might want to choose a frequency to suit you, including ad hoc sessions for those who travel often.
Duration
You’re in control
After the initial session, I advise a commitment of six weeks, to see if our relationship suits you. After that, I recommend open-ended therapy, with the absolute assurance that the way I see my job is…
… to make myself redundant as soon as possible.
Photo of Greta Thunberg by Ingmar Rentzhog in August, 2018
Greta, feeling it