Patricia Devlin, BACP

Patricia Devlin is a fully qualified psychodynamic counsellor and a registered member of the BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy), bringing a considered and collaborative approach to work with adults from diverse cultural backgrounds. She focuses on exploring a client's emotional life in depth, helping people address issues such as anxiety, low mood, relationship difficulties, identity concerns, or a general sense of feeling stuck.

Her practice emphasises psychodynamic principles - looking at how early experiences and unconscious patterns can continue to shape the way a person thinks, feels, and relates. Through reflective conversation, Patricia supports clients to uncover those deeper dynamics, develop insight, and begin to change unhelpful patterns so they can make more empowered choices in everyday life and in relationships.

A particular interest in attachment theory informs much of Patricia's work. She helps clients understand how early relationship templates influence later capacity for closeness, trust, and emotional safety, and how these patterns can appear in adulthood as difficulties with intimacy, fear of abandonment, emotional withdrawal, or people-pleasing. In therapy she pays close attention to how these attachment dynamics affect both relationships and a client's sense of self, using the therapeutic relationship itself as a space to explore and gradually shift those patterns.

Patricia's manner is warm, thoughtful, and attuned to each person's emotional world. She believes that increased understanding and self-awareness form the foundation for lasting change, supporting clients to build greater emotional resilience and more satisfying, authentic connections with others.