Arran's Approach and Specialisms

Arran's approach is grounded in psychosynthesis, a holistic form of psychotherapy that explores both current difficulties and the wider development of the self. It can help clients understand different or conflicting parts of themselves, including those shaped by earlier experiences, while also exploring identity, relationships, values and the direction they want their lives to take.

His work also draws on attachment and relational approaches, particularly when working with couples and relationship difficulties. Rather than looking only at what is happening on the surface, therapy explores the emotional needs, experiences and patterns that may sit underneath conflict or disconnection.

Arran also has a strong interest in the relationship between body and mind. He supports clients in becoming more aware of how emotional experiences can be expressed through the body and how greater connection with bodily experience can support emotional awareness and integration.

Couples Therapy

Arran works with couples experiencing recurring conflict, communication difficulties, emotional distance or a loss of connection. He also supports couples navigating significant changes in their relationship or trying to understand why they repeatedly become caught in the same patterns with one another.

His couples work draws on specialist training in couples counselling alongside attachment, relational and psychosynthesis approaches. This allows therapy to move beyond the immediate argument and explore what may be happening underneath it. Earlier relationship experiences, emotional needs and different ways of responding to vulnerability can all influence how partners relate to one another in the present.

Arran helps couples recognise these patterns, understand one another more clearly and develop different ways of communicating and responding. The aim is to create a space where both partners can speak openly about their experience while developing a deeper understanding of the relationship they have created together.

Men's Mental Health

Arran has a particular specialism in men's mental health and extensive experience facilitating therapeutic work with men. He works with men exploring relationships, emotional expression, identity, fatherhood, loneliness and their experience of masculinity.

His work considers how men's early relationships can influence their adult emotional lives. This can include exploring relationships with fathers, experiences of emotional absence or disconnection, and the expectations men have absorbed about strength, vulnerability and expressing emotion.

Alongside individual therapy, Arran facilitates men's groups and dads' groups in Blackheath Village. He has undertaken specialist training in men's group facilitation and also trains other practitioners in this area.

Group work offers a different therapeutic experience from individual therapy. It gives men an opportunity to explore their experiences alongside other men, develop greater emotional openness and examine how they relate to themselves and others within a supportive and facilitated environment.

Infidelity and Betrayal Recovery

Arran works with couples dealing with the impact of infidelity and betrayal. An affair or other significant breach of trust can destabilise a relationship and raise difficult questions about trust, intimacy and whether the relationship can continue.

Therapy provides space for both partners to begin understanding what has happened and the impact it has had. Arran supports couples in working with the emotional consequences of betrayal while also exploring the relationship patterns and experiences that may need attention as they decide how they want to move forward.

His relational and attachment-informed approach is particularly relevant to this work. It allows therapy to explore both the immediate rupture in trust and the deeper emotional dynamics within the relationship, without losing sight of the different experiences of each partner.

For couples who decide they want to rebuild their relationship, therapy can support the gradual process of restoring trust, developing more open communication and creating a different relationship following the betrayal. Where there is uncertainty about staying together, therapy can also provide a structured space in which to explore that decision.

Men's Groups

Arran has extensive experience facilitating therapeutic men’s groups and has undertaken specialist training in men’s group work. He also trains other practitioners in this area and facilitates both an open-ended Men’s Process Group and a structured Dads’ Group in Blackheath Village.

The groups provide a facilitated space for men to explore experiences that can be difficult to talk about elsewhere.

Working alongside other men offers something different from individual therapy. The group provides an opportunity to hear other men’s experiences, recognise shared struggles and explore how men relate to one another. It can also offer a greater sense of connection and support for men who feel isolated or lack spaces where they can speak openly.

Arran’s approach to group work is informed by psychosynthesis and his specialist training in therapeutic men’s work. Rather than promoting a particular idea of what masculinity should be, the work gives men space to examine the expectations they have inherited and develop their own understanding of what being a man, partner or father means to them.

His Dads’ Group provides a dedicated space to explore fatherhood, including the emotional demands of being a parent, relationships with partners and children, and how men’s experiences of being fathered themselves can influence the kind of father they want to be.

Both groups run fortnightly on Wednesdays at 18:30 in Blackheath Village.

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Existential Issues and Life Transitions

Arran works with people facing periods of transition or questioning in their lives. This may include changes in relationships, becoming a parent, separation, career changes, ageing, loss or a broader sense of uncertainty about identity and direction.

His psychosynthesis approach is particularly suited to exploring questions of meaning, purpose and identity. Therapy can provide space to consider what feels important, what may have changed and how you want to live as you move into a different stage of life.

Arran also works with people who may not be facing a specific crisis but feel disconnected from themselves or uncertain about the direction their life has taken. His work explores the different parts of the self, the values that have shaped previous choices and what a more meaningful or authentic way of living might look like.

Rather than focusing only on reducing distress, psychosynthesis allows therapy to consider growth and future potential alongside the experiences that have shaped you.