Annie Rimmer

My philosophy and how I work

It’s difficult to put this in a nutshell, but here I have tried to get to the core of how I see my work. I hope it helps.!

As we grow up our personalities are formed and influenced by the way we are brought up; our parents' attitudes and behaviour towards us, siblings, teachers and other significant adults in our lives as well as the social and economic conditions we grew up in. when things go wrong and our needs are not well enough met, we struggle with difficult feelings and come to conclusions based on our limited experience and the limited information we have as children to explain what is happening. These conclusions and beliefs usually stay with us, often hidden and forgotten behind the pressure to conform. However we find them influencing, sometimes very powerfully our adult lives, though we are often no longer aware of the hidden cause of our current difficulties.

My work with you would centre around bringing those less conscious aspects of your personality to awareness. I do this mainly by encouraging you to bring childhood and past memories and experiences as well as talking with me about what is happening in your life currently, and making links between the two. Another focus of my attention will be how our relationship develops. What helps you to feel safe and to trust me enough, and what hinders that. What your expectations of me are and what you imagine mine are of you. what you find helpful from me and what you don’t like. I will also encourage you to bring dreams and daydreams and anything that your imagination comes up with as these too are very helpful in bringing to our attention things not yet fully conscious. In this way we begin to emerge those old experiences and feelings and to make sense of how your adult life and relationships are a reflection of your childhood..

These insights and understanding are crucial but not the whole story. Part of my work is also to help you feel safe enough to feel the emotions that go hand in hand with the insight. There is pain and sadness and sometimes fear and anger connected with childhood and past experiences, and they are feelings we have never felt safe enough to really feel or express.. reconnecting with AND MOVING THROUGH these feelings is part of the work of resolving things and moving on.

If you have more questions about how the work takes place please see FAQs or do contact me by e-mail or phone. You will be very welcome.

Telephone: 020 8291 4091
e-mail: info@annierimmer-psychotherapy.co.uk


Psychotherapy and Counselling in Forest Hill / Sydenham, South East London