Mel Perks

Therapist Directory Listing Category: Online Therapy

About the Therapist

About the therapist:

Hello, my name is Mel Perks.

I am a psychoanalytic psychotherapist based in Cornwall.

My training in psychoanalysis has been concentrated on viewing theory through a social and critical lens, drawing into question some of the more traditional views of psychoanalysis without throwing out the useful ideas that it has contributed to in the attempts to make sense of our suffering.

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

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:

Award	Awarding body	Year of award

Experience and approach:

I offer both short and long term psychoanalytic psychotherapy sessions.

Using free association, conversational and embodied approaches 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 in but not exclusively with: