Adrift Psychotherapy

There's profound suffering in being human. There's also joy and beauty in being alive. I hope to help people explore what living really means for them, through both the ups and the downs.

Adrift Psychotherapy is the digital practice of psychotherapist Ruth-Anne Sammes

Training and Experience

I have varied experience having worked in private clinics, correctional facilities, and university settings with a diverse range of clients. While I am now UK based and work with people around the world, I did my initial trainings in New Zealand.

My training is in interpersonal psychodynamic psychotherapy, which draws upon both your past and present experiences and often utlises the relationship that the two of us will build while working together.

• Master of Psychotherapy with Honours (First Class)
  

• Graduate Diploma in Psychotherapy Studies
  

• Registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherpay (MBACP)

My Approach

Life isn't easy. Whether you're experiencing anxiety, depression, overwhelm, loneliness, self-hatred, the effects of trauma, upheaval, loss, the weight of the world on your shoulders, or something you just can't find a name for, I endeavour to offer a reliable, compassionate, and thoughtful place for you to explore these things.

As well as learning about your life as it currently is, my way of working will often mean looking at the relationships and events that got you to this point so that we can get to the root cause of things together. The ways of being that cause us suffering often start off as necessary or helpful before they become a source of pain. In exploring the patterns in our life and coming to understand them, we can then make choices and have more freedom and wholeness in the way we live.

If this is something you are curious about, I offer a free first session so that we can get a sense of each other and assess what it might be like to work together.