Eileen Toibin MA Psychotherapist

Psychotherapy in Crouch End, North London

My name is Eileen Toibin and I have been working as a psychotherapist for fifteen years. I am based in Crouch End, very close to the Clock Tower. I offer psychotherapy and a counselling service in this part of North London.

I am trained as a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist. This means I offer an approach that seeks to understand how present day problems can have their origin in thoughts and feelings that are unconscious. I specialise in four areas:

Work with Relationship Difficulties. Do you feel overwhelmed in your relationship or claustrophobic? These are examples of uncomfortable feelings which threaten successful relationships. Or, are you struggling with complex feelings when parenting your children? Do you ever feel that you are behaving in the same was as your mother or father did and it was something you never wished to do?

Work with creative people e.g. writers who have writers’ block and actors and musicians who experience performance anxiety.

Work with people who have a difficulty in their sexual life e.g. if you are unsure about your sexual orientation, or you are unable to stop using Internet Pornography, or you feel unable to consummate a sexual relationship. I was, for eight years, part of a seminar group at the Portman Clinic which specializes in understanding sexual 'acting out'. (Portman and Tavistock NHS Trust)

Work with people who have suffered from a traumatic experience i.e. sexual, physical and emotional abuse. This includes people who may have self-harmed and who experience a great deal of anxiety or who can feel very frightened in everyday life.

Psychotherapy in Crouch End: Why should you choose a psychoanalytic psychotherapy?

Because it is not a superficial fix. The pain caused by emotional conflicts is real and the states of mind associated with mental pain are often debilitating.

Because it looks at your problems in great depth and offers a different understanding of, and definition of personality, by acknowledging internal mental struggles with issues like mortality and the containment of extreme emotions, e.g., rage, sadness, jealous and loss. This approach takes time and care before coming to any formulation of a problem.

Because when you gain an insight into feelings and thoughts you had been unaware of it often brings a sense of profound relief and gives you a stronger sense of who you are. This is usually the first step towards living a life that is truly one’s own.

I work in private practice and as a Senior Adult Psychotherapist in the NHS. I was the Assessment Therapist at The British Performing Arts Medicine Trust from 1998-2007 and I still carry out assessments for BAPAM. This means I undertake the initial assessment when a performer contacts BAPAM with an emotional problem that may be affecting their professional performance.

I have supervised CBT practioners in the NHS and I sometimes refer performers who come to BAPAM to cognitive therapists: and I can, in my private practice, occasionally offer a cognitive approach if there is a specific focused problem that is of concern to the person who comes to see me.

How to find me?. (www.crouchendpsychotherapy.co.uk)
Crouch End is a short bus ride from three tube stations: Finsbury Park (Victoria and Piccadilly line) and from Archway (Northern line) and Turnpike Lane (Piccadilly line). I am a 5-minute walk from Hornsey BR and a two-stop bus ride from Crouch End BR. I am very close to a number of areas in North London: Holloway, Archway and Highgate.