George Teare

A time that is yours, where you can say what you think and feel, and where there will be no judgment, but where you can challenge yourself and think through whatever it is you need to explore.

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Therapy with George Teare

I am a Certified Transactional Analyst (CTA) and UKCP registered Psychotherapist. I offer individual, couples and relationships therapy.

I work with issues such as anxiety, depression, anger, trauma, confidence and self-esteem, relationship issues, eating-related issues, existential issues, male stereotyping, body image issues, and work with people from all communities and backgrounds.

I feel passionately about the role of shame and how the effects of this can impact our development, confidence and self-esteem.

Who do I work with?

I work with individuals and couples, and enjoy working with the wide variety of personalities and challenges that people face.

Although not limited to just these, the following are some themes that clients bring to therapy.

Relationships therapy: Working with individuals and couples

Relationships come in all shapes and sizes, those with your intimate partner, those with your family, those with your friends, acquaintances and work colleagues and perhaps most importantly the relationship you have with yourself.

Individual Relationship Therapy:

Individual relationship therapy is about exploring your side of the relationship and how you are responding or being responded to. In our therapy sessions we will look at whatever challenges you are experiencing in your relationships.

Couples Therapy:

Alongside being nourishing, being in a couple or intimate relationship can provide its challenges too. Frequent arguments, communication breakdown, intimacy, power dynamics are just some issues couples seek counselling for.

Often couples seek therapy because they are unable to communicate their wants and needs. Couples therapy is about helping you both ‘hear’ the other person and be ‘heard’ by them.

In couples therapy, you can develop insight and awareness and find new ways of communicating to one another. You can build an understanding of your role in the relationship and grow your ability to understand and work with the issues you seek to address.

Working with gender, sexuality and the LGBTQIA+ community:

Do you have questions around your sexuality or gender identity? Do you feel unsure of where you belong or feel alone? You may have experienced shame related issues, which may be a result of your cultural or religious upbringing or the culture of your workplace or organisation.

Increased levels of anxiety and depression have been reported in people who are LGBTQIA+ and evidence has shown there are higher rates for seeking therapy within this community.

I work with women, men and non-binary individuals. In therapy, we can explore any questions you have around gender or sexual orientation, where you can voice your feelings in a supportive, non-judgmental space and work at your own pace to make sense of these.

Working with men in therapy:

Are you familiar with cultural messages on how to behave as a man? Is it easier to avoid things, go silent or perhaps show feelings of anger, rather than to express vulnerability and try and communicate your needs? Or perhaps you have a great social group yet there is something missing on an emotional level?

Even though men and women experience the same emotional challenges, such as anxiety and depression, women are far more likely to seek support when experiencing life’s difficulties.

Too often men stay silent about what they are thinking and feeling. The power of therapy, being able to ‘say it out loud’ and hear yourself can really help you to unpick the issues and find new ways to see yourself and how you want to be seen.

Working together we can explore what is going on for you, where your life is now and where you would like to be.

In our sessions we may look at ‘where’ your current thoughts or views have developed and I may challenge you to question if those ways of thinking are still serving you positively.

Working with boarding school experiences and trauma

Are you an ex-boarder? Did you spend all or some of your educational years at boarding school? Perhaps you have some good and some not so good memories of your time at school.

For many, boarding school was fine, it was just what happened, for some boarding school was great, and the memories of being there are positive, but there are also some people for whom boarding school was hard, lonely, even a time they felt abandoned and vulnerable.

Our early years, especially those school years when we are learning to navigate relationships outside of home life, are when we form many of our emotional responses to others. For some children, the boarding school system did not feel caring or safe and they learned coping mechanisms in response to feeling alone, abandoned, or from experiences of bullying or shame.

These coping mechanisms can get carried into our adult life and, long after boarding school years are over can still come into play in our adult relationships.

Both men and women can feel the impact of boarding, and I feel passionately working with those that have boarded, where therapy can support you in speaking about your experiences, whatever they may be or how they show up in your life.

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About me

I am a Certified Transactional Analyst and have undergone a rigorous psychotherapy training, ensuring I work to high ethical standards with insight and efficiency.

I previously worked within the broadcast industry since 2007 and wanted a career change where I could work closely with people and their psychology. Through my own experiences of personal development and therapy it felt natural to embark on a career where I can assist others with their growth and development.

Since 2018 I have worked with adults and couples in private practice based in London and at a variety of therapy placements across the city. I have also been the in-house counsellor at a residence and institution for men who have been recently homeless, were seafarers, or veterans of war.

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Areas I work with:

• Anger & conflict
• Anxiety
• Bereavement, & loss
• Boarding school experiences & trauma
• Career problems & changes
• Depression
• Existential crisis
• Gender & sexuality
• Health-related issues
• Identity
• LGBTQIA+
• Neurodivergence
• Relationships
• Self-esteem
• Stress & overwhelm

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Training and modalities:

My specialist training is in Transactional Analysis (TA) which can be applied in both individual, couples therapy, or group environments.

What is TA?

What is TA? I love TA since I find it a powerful theory of psychology with helpful tools on how we relate to the world around us and our place within it. It can be used to understand human behaviour by looking inwardly at ourselves or externally to others.

Its roots are founded in psychoanalytic concepts and establishes an individual’s social interactions by analysing three ego states of Parent (behaviour copied from others), Adult (here-and-now) and Child (feelings and beliefs from past experiences).

TA concepts are very useful breaking down the psyche into a structure, understand unconscious processes and how they influence the here-and-now (Adult ego state).

I also work from an integrative approach and combine methods of psychology such as Jungian analysis and incorporate dreams or visualisation techniques. Additionally, I am interested in a holistic approach and consider the mind-body connection and the impacts of diet and exercise on physical and mental health.

Qualifications:

Training, qualifications & experience

• Certified Transactional Analyst (CTA-P) (Level 7)
• Fully qualified psychotherapist and UKCP registered.
• Relationships Training (with Jonathan Lake)
• Emerging from Emergency – Trauma training (with Jonathan Lake)
• Working with Neurodiversity (Jonathan Lake and Crena Watson)
• ‘Trauma, Privilege and Abandonment – Boarding School Syndrome: An Introduction to Specialist Psychotherapy with Ex-Boarders
• Food and Psychotherapy training (Jonathan Lake)

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Contact:

Contact me in confidence on:

george@georgetearetherapy.co.uk
georgetearetherapy.co.uk

Rates:

Individual sessions are £90 for a 50-minute session.
Couples therapy sessions are £130 for a 60-minute session.

I am also registered with the following insurance providers: Aviva, Vitality, WPA.

Sessions:

Psychotherapy sessions at Barnsbury Therapy Space:
Monday
Directions to Barnsbury Therapy Space