Simon Weber Counselling and Psychotherapy

In Couples Therapy

My core qualification is a Graduate Diploma in Couples Psychotherapy completed under the auspices of The University of New South Wales in Australia.

And in Counselling:

I have two Certificated Counselling qualifications also completed in Australia whilst working with a Relationship Counselling agency similar to Relate in the UK.

And my experience:

I have conducted in excess of 3750 sessions over the last seven years with couples and individuals.

In the three years prior to that I worked as a counsellor with survivors of torture and war trauma in an agency providing psychological rehabilitation to refugees, also in Australia. I am accustomed to working in the most difficult of circumstances.

My interests:

My professional interest rests mostly with psychodynamics -- the influence of the unconscious in our experience -- although I recognise the interplay between family systems theory and psychodynamics. In couples work it is essential to understand the dance between arising individual experience and the dynamics of separate interacting minds.

I also think a lot about the existential aspect of the human condition: how to answer in day to day living those profound questions about the meaning of life: Why am I here? What is my life for? What does it mean to live a good life?

As self-consciously aware beings there are times when these questions burn brightly, usually when a crisis arises or a major change takes place. Bringing this element to the work keeps it connected to those absolute fundamentals that underwrite almost everything that we do.