Hello.
Are you looking for psychotherapy, mentoring or coaching?
My name is Andrew Enever, and I was trained as an attachment-focused psychoanalytic psychotherapist. at the Bowlby Centre in Lonon.
In my semi-retirement I now offer shorter term personal therapy, mentoring and coaching services. - that's online or in-person.
I live and work in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. These days, I do my work using Zoom and Whatsapp.
I can be contacted on 07957-295844 or by e-mail
I've nearly three decades of experience of being a psychotherapist. On the way, I've taken on some very different trainings; had a diverse range of clients. Inevitably, I developed my own very idiosyncratic style.
I’ve been a practising psychotherapist since 1997. I carried out an attachment focused psychoanalytic psychotherapy training at the Bowlby centre in London between 1995 and 1999.
Many of my clients wanted something less rigorous and more short term than a formal therapy, so I developed more informal skills around coaching and mentoring.
I’ve carried out further training in EMDR which I have studied at all three levels.
I completed a full Sensorimotor Psychotherapy training in 2015, and I’m now a certified Sensorimotor practitioner.
I practised for 13 years in London before moving to Sheffield in 2011 where I worked at the Royal Hallamshire hospital in the Neurology Psychotherapy service. That service specialised in the treatment of functional neurological disorders – non-epileptic seizures, chronic pain, functional dystonia, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, etc.
About Me
I welcome enquiries from anyone who seeks to improve the quality of their lives, regardless of their starting point.
I've worked with many people with body-based symptoms: chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, non-epileptic seizures, Crohn's disease, functional dystonia. I've also worked with neuro-divergence: autism, ADHD and dyslexia.
Just recently, I've been reading "The Immune Mind" by Dr. Monty Lyman - an extraordinary book which links immunology, neurology, psychology and biology, to give the most convincing explanation I've yet read of what is going on for those suffering these chronic conditions.
Current Interests
Work With Me
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Public speaking
I am a competent public speaker, and I welcome the opportunity to talk to groups, large or small, about my work.
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Reading and Study Groups
I am very interested in joining with other professionals and/or those suffering chronic illnesses, in forming reading and/or study groups.
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Availability
I am offering a free online consultation, to those seeking personal therapy. I offer a sliding scale of fees.
I invite my clients to look at the key relationships in their lives and examine together how those relationship have shaped them, paying particular attention to life-changing moments, when people’s beliefs about themselves became embedded, shattered, re-shaped.
I think of myself as belonging to the Interpersonal tradition of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, which is now called Relational Psychoanalysis The classical mode of psychoanalytic psychotherapy was a ‘one-person’ model, where the analyst mostly remained silent, and abstained from offering support, advice or information about his own moment-by-moment feelings.
This idea of ‘frustrating’ the client was designed to elicit emotional responses from the client which would draw out of them their deepest anxieties, thus enabling them to voice those fears and anxieties perhaps for the first time in their lives. This ‘blank screen’ approach enabled clients to ‘project’ their feelings, no matter how extreme, onto the analyst, and have them accepted.
However, many practitioners realised that this approach was not sufficient, and possibly even quite dangerous, particularly for those clients who had experienced severe trauma. As a result, there was a turn to a two-person psychology, where the analyst would feel free to disclose certain aspects of their feelings about the client.
Now, I integrate my understanding of these traditions, with techniques from the body-centred approach. So I’m always curious about my own and my clients’ bodily responses both inside and outside the therapy room.
For many people, the contents of their minds can be baffling, disturbing, contradictory. They can feed shame, worthlessness, and self-doubt. These feelings can be frequently tracked in body symptoms, in posture and in prosody.
Key influences:
This may sound glib, but my key learning has come from the multitude of clients I have seen over the years.
They have all helped me feel the relevance of John Bowlby, Donald Winnicott, Melanie Klein, Judith Herman, Janina Fisher, Stephen Mitchell, Sandor Ferenczi, Pierre Janet.