Mr Jay Dudley

Regions
Wales and West, Online Therapy

Address
Atlantic House
23 Silver Street
TAUNTON
Somerset
TA1 3DH
United Kingdom

Mobile
07807 652052

I am a Psychotherapist, Supervisor, and Trainer, in Year Two of the Qualifying Course in Group Analysis. I have many years experience working in mental health services in the NHS. Alongside my private practice, I currently work in a Specialist Eating Disorder Service in the NHS, and have extensive experience working in a Therapeutic Community for personality disorders. I work with both individuals and groups. I bring together ideas from CAT, Object Relations and Group Analysis to inform my practice and understanding of psychotherapy. We come into being, and our identity is ‘shaped’ – so to speak – through important early childhood relationships. But problematic experiences in our development can lead to patterns of relating that seem only to lead back into a repetition of the past, as well as limiting our growth and potential. Their familiarity makes it hard to detect since it is hard to see who we are from ‘outside’ ourselves. By paying close attention to the therapeutic relationship in the present, and working collaboratively with you, the past can slowly begin to emerge into conscious awareness, which in turn can bring choice and change closer to hand. The process of psychotherapy invites us to question and explore who we are and uncover what’s hidden. I believe it is through the rhythm, boundaries and containment of the psychotherapeutic relationship, that new meaning, beginnings and understandings can emerge. I offer both short and long-term psychotherapy, as well as CAT training therapies. I am also available for supervision (UKCP Registered) and consultation. My clinical experience and interests include treatment for personality disorders; complex trauma and dissociative processes; eating disorders; OCD; anxiety and depression. I run a weekly psychotherapy group for people to meet, explore and learn how being in a group can help to increase awareness of our interpersonal processes’ and relational identity. Groupwork can bring deep and lasting understanding and change. I have been Course Co-Director for CAT Practitioner Training in Somerset NHS; am visiting lecturer on Exeter University's D.Clin.Psychology; I have presented CAT in numerous settings. I have been Chair of ACAT (Association of Cognitive Analytic Therapy), and remain a Trustee.