Laura Dee-Patachi

I work with children aged (7+), young people, adults, couples and families. I am uniquely skilled with an extensive degree of experience treating PTSD, Mood Disorders, Personality Disorders, Panic Disorders, Depression, Self-Harm, Suidical Ideation and Bipolar issues. I view my role as a therapist as a mirror to you, and our therapeutic relationship as an act of reflection that can only happen in the unique setting of therapy, which is private and dedicated entirely and insistently to you. During our time together, I will try to listen to you deeply and to reflect back to you the questions -and the answers- that you are formulating about your life and about your difficulties so that you can see yourself in new or more nuanced ways. I try to help you make contact with parts of yourself that have become disconnected or to illuminate patterns and obstacles that may be outside of your recognition. If you can take the chance to bring into our work the self-doubt, shame, stress, loneliness, or anguish that underscore your problems, the process of therapeutic reflection can help you find your way to a life that is more free, more engaged, and more meaningful to you. You can be free to bring anything you wish into therapy (including your thoughts and feelings about therapy itself) and expect to be helped to see yourself more clearly so that you can make decisions about what you seek to change. This process of self-understanding and choice-making ultimately leads to the amelioration of the symptoms of your distress. ​ If by learning about my work from this site you think I might be the right therapist for you, I look forward to hearing from you.