Andreia Jennings

Andreia is an existential psychotherapist and integrates her approach with a phenomenological perspective, to gain an understanding of a client’s experience of being in their world, and specialises in lack of purpose, meaning, trauma and eating disorders.

I have gained an MA in Existential Psychotherapy. As a psychotherapist I draw upon my existential training and on the phenomenological method, which allows my clients and I to gain an understanding of their way of ‘being-in-the-world’.

While growing up we develop various coping mechanisms, which allow us to function and get on with our lives. However, our life circumstances change and we ourselves also keep changing, but sometimes we continue to use the same coping mechanisms, which instead of helping us, hinder our development and self-fulfilment. Our inner discourse may become stuck in rigid views of ourselves, we can repeat unhelpful patterns of behaviour and become unable to escape our daily mental confinements.

Therapy opens our inner conversation to a dialogue with an-other in a safe and non-judgmental environment, so we can gain new perspectives on our private and social lives, and see that are other ways of addressing ourselves and the world. It helps us to become self-aware and more honest with ourselves giving us balance and assurance to step more courageously into the unknown.

Following my training, I have attended and continue to attend many other short courses, e.g. working with trauma, abuse, anxiety disorders, substance addiction, eating disorders, depression, psychotic states, postnatal depression, gay & lesbian issues, personality disorders.

• 2017
• Gut-Brain Axis, The Hungry Brain – WeightMatters Training Academy
• Working with suicidal clients – Woman’s Trust
• Introduction to autism – The National Autistic Society
• Autism and communication – The National Autistic Society
• Keeping safe: vulnerable clients, courts and evidence – Woman’s Trust
• Obesity Management & Food Addiction – WeightMatters Training Academy
• 2016
• Understanding drugs and addiction course – King’s College
• Integrating the Psychiatric Diagnosis and Treatment of Eating Disorders – WeightMatters Training Academy
• Essential Nutrition When Working With Eating Disorders – WeightMatters Training Academy
• 2015
• Therapeutic work with severely disturbed children – nscience
• C.G.Jung’s quest for Aurora Consurgens – The Guild of Pastoral Psychology
• Body-mindful presence: practical contemporary applications from integrative body psychotherapy – nscience
• Working with personality disorders – Greenwich MIND
• Marion Milner – Her work on creativity and its blocks – WPF therapy
• 2014
• Attachment theory & close relationships – nscience
• Perversion: a psychoanalytic approach – nscience
• The psychodynamics of body dysmorphia – nscience
• Living and working with dissociation – PODS (Positive Outcomes for Dissociative Survivors)
• 2013
• Thinking about gender and sexual diversity – Greenwich MIND
• Reflections on betrayal – The Guild of Pastoral Psychology
• Psychosis – TCCR
• Unconscious psychological trauma – nscience
• Female creativity and the narcissistic wound – C.G. Jung club
• 2012
• Chronic trauma and neglect – Greenwich MIND
• Exploring existential conscience in therapeutic practice – Authentica
• The intellectual plague of biologism – Inner Circle Seminars
• From stress to psychosis: how to prevent people having breakdowns – Human Givens College
• 2011
• Bipolar disorder – Greenwich MIND
• Applied suicide intervention skills training – ASIST
• Dissociative states and child abuse – WPF therapy
• When mummy wants you to die: the role of infanticidal wishes in the genesis of psychosis – WPF therapy
• 2010
• MA Existential psychotherapy & counselling
• De-mystifying postnatal depression- Greenwich MIND
• Hearing voices – Greenwich MIND
• PTSD and mental health workshop – Greenwich MIND
• The heart of phenomenology – Society for Existential Analysis
• Effects of postnatal depression on child development – Greenwich Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services
• 2009
• Domestic violence/forced marriage awareness training – MIND in Tower Hamlets
• Existential perspectives on supervision – Society for Existential Analysis
• Catharsis in Antiquity- Association of Jungian Analysts
• 2008
• Working with depression – MIND in Tower Hamlets
• 2007
• Family transitions: learning from research and intervention studies- TCCR
• 2006
• Training in Bereavement counselling – Lewisham Bereavement Counselling
• 2006
• Community drug education project: Drug awareness training course