Sam Briggs

My approach is warm, welcoming and collaborative, and centres on listening attentively to understanding you, your world and your experience as a unique individual. I aim to create a space where you can speak honestly, openly and without judgement. I believe that lasting change in therapy comes from you, and rarely from a quick or easy fix – but together we can try to make that change possible.

My psychodynamic training means I bring an interest in your past experiences, starting from those earlier in life and in childhood, as well as understanding the ways in which you might instinctively repeat patterns or certain ways of relating to yourself or others. By bringing these unconscious processes into the open and understanding them more clearly, we might find a new way of being for you.

I believe that therapy should be a place where everyone feels welcome. I hope to provide a space where you can explore some of the most private, honest & vulnerable parts of yourself, in a setting that you feel you can trust to be open-minded, non-judgemental and confidential. We can work with any labels that you might bring to the extent that they are meaningful for you, in the way that you define them.

I am committed to an ethical, inclusive and politically-minded practice. I will always be attentive to understanding your identity and experience in context. Our work will give space and respect to the ways that social, cultural and political contexts and systems have a very real impact in shaping or limiting our identity, and how we live in the world. This might include experiences of classism, racism or racialisation, queerphobia, transphobia, ableism or any kind of oppression, marginalisation or violence.

My work with queer and trans people is affirming. In working with gender, sexuality and relationship diversity, I recognise those identities and experiences as vital without assuming that they will form the core of our work.