Elisabeth Auer Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Counselling in Twickenham

Professional Background

I am a UKCP accredited psychoanalytic psychotherapist (IPSS) and have been working as a psychotherapist for the past 8 years.

My professional background is in teaching and education. After my Matura (A-levels) in Austria I qualified as a teacher for Secondary School in the subjects German and Art. I taught in schools and NGOs, later specializing in German as a Foreign Language.

I always enjoyed working with people. When I became a mother, I decided to re-train as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, partly inspired by my own psychotherapy and a developing interest in understanding in what ways our earliest relationships may shape the way we think, feel and behave in adult years.

During my training course in psychoanalytic psychotherapy I have undergone placements in a Therapeutic Community in Richmond (RPFI) and at Richmond Borough Mind. I also worked as a volunteer counsellor in the low cost clinic of the Guild of Psychotherapists.

Since 2013 I have been a member of the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. My work is deeply influenced by the literature on relational psychoanalysis and findings from neuroscience and attachment theory. From my own experience of migrating, I am also keen to understand in what way our political and social environment, and that of our parents and ancestors, shape our internalized models.

In 2018 I completed the Foundation for Infant Loss Training Course.