Edward Chatham
Psychodynamic counsellor exploring patterns and meaning
About Edward
Edward Chatham practises from a psychodynamic perspective and brings three years of hands-on experience to his work. He is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, often written as BACP. Edward offers calm, focused support for people feeling overwhelmed by mood or relationship pain.
He draws on psychoanalytic and Jungian ideas to help people make sense of repeated patterns in their life. Conversations look at how early experiences and unconscious behaviour affect current choices.
Background and approach
Sessions are an opportunity to notice themes that turn up again and again and to try different ways of responding. Edward works with common concerns such as stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression and attention difference challenges like ADHD. He also helps people cope with separation, abandonment issues, adoption and foster care topics, and the effects of family of origin problems.
Other areas he addresses include body image, addiction, eating issues and attachment difficulties. In practical terms he uses talking therapy to explore feelings, memories and relationships. The aim is to increase self-awareness and reduce patterns that cause distress.
Edward frames therapy as a steady process rather than a quick fix. Sessions take place in the United Kingdom and are carried out in English. He has experience with neurodivergent presentations and personality-related difficulties, and tailors the pace to each person’s needs.
What Edward works with
Sessions & fees
Psychodynamic approaches and online therapy options
Edward works from a psychodynamic foundation and draws on psychoanalytic and Jungian ideas to help people understand recurring patterns. Psychodynamic work focuses on how past experiences shape present feelings and behaviour, and it can help with anxiety, depression and relationship difficulties by encouraging insight and self-reflection.Psychoanalytic ideas look at unconscious patterns that influence choices and reactions. This approach is useful when repeated themes cause distress and someone wants to understand why they keep happening. Jungian concepts explore personal meaning, symbols and life narratives, which can help when someone feels a lack of direction or persistent emptiness.
Choosing an approach is collaborative. He will discuss options and adapt methods to match each person’s needs, goals and preferences. Together the client and therapist decide the pace and focus so the work feels manageable and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more accessible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and non-verbal cues, phone sessions can fit into a work break or require less bandwidth, live chat supports shorter real-time check-ins, and messaging lets clients reflect between contacts. These formats increase flexibility and help people fit therapy into busy lives.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Commitment issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
