The Bridge Foundation

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The Bridge Foundation for Psychotherapy and the Arts, a registered charity established in 1984, provides a range of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and counselling services. We are a well established Bristol based organisation with a strong commitment to providing accessible, high quality clinical services to a wide range of individuals and families. Alongside our fee paying services, we are committed to delivering accessible free counselling services for parents previously underserved by such services.

We are interested in the application of psychoanalytic thinking and we also provide a programme of conferences throughout the year. Alongside clinical work, The Bridge Foundation has developed an interest in the healthy functioning of teams, groups and organisations and offers consultancy to public and independent organisations

Who is the service for?

We see children, young people, families & individuals. The children or young people may be in emotional difficulty, or in trouble. There may be problems in family relationships or at school. We try to help children, young people and families to get back onto a more ordinary track and to get on with their lives. Parents often need time on their own to discuss difficulties which may be impacting on the whole family. At other times we might see children on their own or the whole family together.

What we offer?

The help we offer involves talking and thinking together about the difficulties which caused you to come for help. We don’t just talk about the problem you are coming with. We aim to understand how the problem may have started. We try to help families look for new ways of getting on with and talking to each other. We try to help people recognise patterns of behaviour. We might look for things which have happened in the past and which might still give rise to a lot of feelings. This, in turn, helps in understanding the problem.