I’m Sue Tupling, the founder of Embodied Living, I am a UKCP Registered Clinical Psychotherapist qualified since 2013. My current clinical practice is psychoanalytic. 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 psychoanalytic orientation today 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.

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy has deepened this exploration through its particular attention to unconscious phantasy, internal conflict, early relationships, transference and countertransference, and to what emerges within the relationship between therapist and patient. These approaches are theoretically and technically distinct, and I do not attempt to combine them into a single method. Rather, my earlier experiential and embodied training continues to inform my sensitivity as a clinician, while psychoanalytic thinking provides the principal framework for my work. I am particularly interested in being able to think psychoanalytically while remaining alive to bodily experience, non-verbal communication and experiential processes that may be difficult to put into words.