Miriam Berry

Miriam Berry is a BACP-registered psychotherapist and counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and feelings of isolation and loneliness. She also supports those dealing with relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, eating issues and major life changes. Miriam aims to make the first step into therapy less daunting and practical from the start.

Miriam works in a psychodynamic way. That means she looks at how current behaviours and relationships can be shaped by earlier life experiences. Conversations will focus on patterns that repeat in relationships and on how a person sees themselves in the world.

In sessions she helps people notice recurring reactions, make sense of difficult feelings and decide whether to keep acting in the same way or try something different. She often discusses family of origin issues, attachment and abandonment themes, and how neurodiversity or gender questions can affect how someone feels about themselves.

Miriam also offers support around fertility and end-of-life concerns, chronic illness and pain, and issues such as codependency, control and communication difficulties. Her work includes LGBT-related and gender dysphoria matters alongside coping with separation and divorce.

She brings four years of clinical experience and says the quality of the relationship matters most. To start, she suggests meeting to see if the therapeutic connection feels like a good fit.

How psychodynamic work can fit into online therapy

Miriam uses psychodynamic ideas to help people understand how past experiences shape current feelings and relationships. Psychodynamic therapy looks at repeating patterns - for example in intimacy, attachment and self-view - and helps make those patterns clearer so people can choose different ways of relating.

That approach can be useful for worries such as loneliness, grief, identity questions and repeated relationship difficulties. Working this way online means conversations can still explore thoughts, dreams and feelings about early experiences and current life events in depth.

Finding the right approach is part of the work itself. Miriam treats this as collaborative and will help you decide if psychodynamic work is a good fit for your needs and goals. She aims to tailor sessions to what you want to address and how you prefer to work.

Specific session formats are not listed in the profile, so confirm the available options before booking. Online therapy can make sessions easier to fit around daily life, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Registered or accredited professionals often find that remote sessions help maintain continuity of care when life is busy.