The Downs Psychotherapy
The Downs Psychotherapy
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Bristol
A dedicated space for psychotherapy in a beautiful location
Clinical expertise met with a deep, compassionate understanding
What is psychodynamic psychotherapy?
An explorative, psychotherapy that helps people understand their underlying thoughts, feelings and relationship patterns. These develop from life experiences and unconscious processes. Psychodynamic psychotherapy helps to make sense of current difficulties through reflective, collaborative conversations in the context of a safe, trusting therapeutic relationship.
Who is it helpful for?
This type of therapy is suitable for those who are curious about their inner world and would like to explore how their past experiences affect their current life, with a view that there may be deep-seated causes for their distress. In psychodynamic psychotherapy we recognise that this exploration can take time and a longer commitment may be required to work through difficulties.
Psychodynamic psychotherapy can help with anxiety, depression, relationship problems, grief, complex or childhood trauma, feelings of "being stuck" or loss of meaning in life, stress from life transitions or work, struggles with identity, physical symptoms with a psychological cause.
About me
My name is Dr Abi Manjunath
I am both a psychotherapist and a psychiatrist.
In private practice I work as a psychotherapist.
I have over twenty years of experience in the NHS, where I continue to work as a Consultant Psychiatrist in Medical Psychotherapy.
Qualifications
I have undergraduate bachelor’s degrees in Psychology (2003) and Medicine (2005) and I became a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2011. I have postgraduate master’s degrees in both Psychiatry (2012) and Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic Therapy (2020). I completed my training as a
Consultant Psychiatrist in Medical Psychotherapy in 2022. I have been UKCP registered since this time. In 2025 I completed training in DIT (Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy).
Other experience
Additionally I have training and experience in delivering supervision and in practicing Mentalisation Based Treatment (MBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and Narrative Therapy.