Due to an increasing demand for our psychotherapy services, we are now inviting therapists to join The Brixton Practice. We have regular opportunities for counsellors, psychologists, psychotherapists and complimentary practitioners. We are looking for people interested in what we refer to as a radically relational approach, to join our growing team.

We see the radically relational approach as predominantly a two-person, ongoing, reflective process. It is an organic and non-directive approach to therapy, whereby we work towards trusting what needs to unfold and emerge.

As therapists at The Brixton Practice, we emphasise the importance of authenticity and congruence as first principles. First and foremost, we are two human beings in the room - professional and client. We are process-orientated in our approach. We support our clients in exploring their strengths and vulnerabilities, through creating a therapeutic space that allows them to deepen into and open up in their process. We see ourselves as both professionals and human beings in the therapeutic space. Through this, newness can surface as the client feels safe to explore their internal and external worlds.

Through the process of genuine, real contact, clients can discuss and explore what is emerging, as material from the unconscious begins to reveal itself. The therapists willingness to be real helps the client to notice what - from the unconscious - is emerging between client and therapist. Through this process, insight, healing and change is made possible. The therapeutic space needs boundaries, with flexibility - creating a secure container which allows for safe surprises. These are the beginnings of newness, where healing truly occurs when worked through successfully.

Therefore, we are proponents of the participant-observer way of working, acknowledging that psychotherapy is a two-person psychology. The client will re-enact their relational trauma with the therapist. As relational therapists, we consider these re-enactments safe surprises, which we can then use to learn more about what happened for the client in childhood and what is happening in significant current relationships. Safe surprises are ways to bring maladaptive patterns to the surface, to reflect upon, and then start to change.

At The Brixton Practice, we emphasise a trauma-based approach to understanding and recovering from psychological problems. Traumatic experiences can occur in any number of different ways. However, at its root, trauma is more often than not located in parent/primary caregiver complexities. We pay attention to traumas that happen in adulthood, but the response to adult traumas are very often rooted back to developmental trauma. If relationships with others cause damage, a healthy therapeutic relationship can help repair that damage.