About Maria FalzonAs a psychodynamic practitioner, my understanding is that you might approach me for help when you have experienced something as very painful, and you find yourself unable to resolve it; you might be aware that you are trying to ignore it. Sometimes you might bury something so well that you lose sight of it – it is unconscious. Difficult past experiences can end up affecting you in the present without your conscious awareness – you feel stuff, you do things, but you don’t know why.If this approach is suitable for your needs, I would work with you to encourage you to talk freely and to look deeper into your difficulties, to understand what might be causing these problems within yourself.I draw on more than thirty years' experience of working in Mental Health, including 17 years as a Consultant in General Adult Psychiatry. I am a founder member of Mentalisation-Based Treatment (MBT) Scotland; from 2009, I co-delivered 11 mentalisation skills courses across Scotland. I applied and was accepted as a BPC registrant in 2015. I completed the Advanced Practitioner training in MBT in 2013 and was accredited as a Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy practitioner in 2019.