Dr Robert Dawborn specialises in Complex PTSD

Longstanding & Severe Conditions & Longer Term Counselling

Dr Robert Dawborn

Dr Robert Dawborn specializes in the treatment of severe and longstanding mental health  issues. This includes people with longstanding depression, longstanding anxiety or longstanding low self esteem or self confidence, complex post-traumatic-stress-disorders including dissociative disorders  and the trauma of sexual abuse, as well as ‘personality disorders’. Other people may have had feelings of ‘emptiness’ or of being ‘lost’ [...]

The Therapeutic Relationship

In another blog on ‘experiences of therapy’ I have said that contemporary psychotherapy is based on relationship theory and trauma theory. The therapeutic relationship which has also been called an ‘intimate relationship’ (Russell Meares, 2000) is one in which we are free to be ourselves and from this position we are also free to explore [...]