About Sue Tupling - Online/Virtual & Face-to-face Therapy

I am a UKCP Registered Clinical Psychotherapist qualified since 2013. My current clinical practice is predominantly psychoanalytic, and I am undertaking further specialist training in intensive psychoanalytic psychotherapy. In addition, I have long-standing background in experiential and embodied psychotherapies. I work within Staffordshire and the West Midlands as well as further afield.

My work today is psychoanalytic. However, it has developed through more than fifteen years of training and clinical practice in different forms of psychotherapy, particularly experiential and embodied approaches. There is an underlying thread connecting these different stages of my development as a therapist: an interest in aspects of ourselves that are not immediately available to conscious thought, but which nevertheless shape how we experience ourselves, our relationships and the world around us.

My earlier training in Neurolinguistic Psychotherapy developed my interest in unconscious patterns of experience and the ways these can be expressed through language, imagery, memory and bodily experience. My subsequent training in Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor Psychotherapy took this further into embodied and developmental experience, including the symbolic expression of unmet needs and early relational patterns.

My training, work experience and any achievement

I have a postgraduate diploma in psychotherapy (masters level) and am a UKCP registered clinical psychotherapist. I have trained at postgraduate level in Neurolinguistic Psychotherapy and completed additional trainings in Pesso Boyden System Psychotherapy and Couples Psychotherapy. Since 2020 I have been undertaking training in intensive psychoanalytic psychotherapy. I undertake over 100 hours CPD each year for my own personal development.

Further Information

The mode of psychotherapy I utilise is psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The evidence base for the effectiveness of this method is growing, and it is strongest for long-term complex cases. The main theoretical framework is that unconscious processes, internal conflicts, transference and early relationships shape current difficulties. By working this way it can help you to increase insight into unconscious dynamics within yourself and make internal changes that help to increase ego strength and robustness and resolve deep-rooted conflicts.

The main ways that I work are by enabling you to talk in a freely associated way, without censorship or judgement; bring dreams that might help with understanding the unconscious as they are interpreted in the session; by you being able to take in the insights that I will offer, that may at times be surprising (as you will be finding out things that you don’t yet know about yourself): and by working through difficult experiences in a supported and contained way as they come up in the work.