Mel Perks

Name: Mel Perks
Address: Lower Reen Farm, Truro, England, TR60AL, United Kingdom
Telephone: 07816976751

Therapist Directory Listing Category: Online Therapy

About the Therapist

About the therapist:

My name is Mel Perks (They/She). I am a nonbinary queer psychoanalytic psychotherapist based in Cornwall.

I love surfing of all kinds and am a proud founding member of the Queer Surf Club. I am very passionate about exploring the ways in which we as individuals connect, affect, and are affected by nature.

My experience in psychoanalysis has been concentrated on viewing theory through a queer and feminist lens with an active commitment to the decolonisation of ideas produced within the field. I am ever learning about how and in what way we can use contemporary writings in psychoanalysis to open up conversations between ourselves and what is possible when we have such a space to roam around in. I am interested in the everyday experiences of people and how we end up in the binds that we do, what keeps us where we are, where possible, what moves us from these spaces and where it isn’t possible, how we carve out a space to live within it. These interests combined affect the kind of conversation and therefore therapeutic space that I offer people.

I am not only offer talking sessions but also walking whilst talking sessions and I am also trained in an Eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing (EMDR) approach.

Sexual identity:

Queer

Gender identity: Non-binary

Gender history: Not as assigned at birth

Non-monogamy: No

Intersex: No

Neurodivergent: Unsure

Personal pronouns: They/Them/She/Her

Qualifications - Links to websites:

I am an Applied Psychologist (BSc) who did further postgraduate training with The Society for Social Critical Psychoanalysis: https://www.sscp.uk/ I am now a UKCP registered Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist: https://www.psychotherapy.org.uk/therapist/Mel-Perks-F7ULAAA3#:~:text=My%20Approach&text=I%20offer%20both%20short%20term,will%20really%20listen%20to%20us. I have also completed the three part training in EMDR: https://www.emdr-training.com/ This is my current website: https://psychotherapy-by-the-sea.com/

Qualifications - Additional:

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Experience and approach:

I offer both short and long term psychoanalytic psychotherapy sessions. The sessions aim to help you to look more closely at yourself, your experiences with others and the social context which you find yourself within. Over time as a relationship develops, so does the conversation and patterns of being in the world are brought to the foreground. It is through this process that a different way of thinking and feeling about yourself and your life develops. I have experience working with the following areas: