Ioana Morpurgo, MA
UKCP registered member, UKATA, EATA
Psychotherapy & Counselling
''I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.''
C. Jung
Experiencing distress, uncertainty, loss, fear or a sense of disconnection can make daily life difficult to navigate. Through a compassionate and collaborative therapeutic process, we will work together to understand your experience, regain confidence & strength and support meaningful, lasting change.
The Practice
Grounded in Transactional Analysis and integrating theory and praxis from Existential Psychotherapy, Jungian Psychoanalysis and Attachment Theory, my therapeutic approach offers a confidential, focused, reflective and safe space to explore the patterns shaping your thoughts, emotions, and relationships. I work with adults over 18 years old.
I am a social justice - minded, environmentally aware, culturally sensitive psychotherapist, with a strong understanding of the different identity parts at play in our psyche: personal upbringing and experiences, neurodiversity, race, pluri-culturalism, faith, gender, sexuality, class, etc. I am passionate about supporting my clients on their exciting journey to integrate past experiences, challenge inauthentic self-constructs and discover new ways of being in the world.
I comply with the UKCP Code of Ethics and Professional Practice & the EATA Ethical Code.
Therapy Sessions & Fees
C. Brancusi
Individual Psychotherapy
50 minutes
£50 (sliding scale)
C. Brancusi
Couples Counselling
1 hour 10minutes
£65 (sliding scale)
S. Aiyesan
Family counselling
1 hour 10minutes
£65 (sliding scale)
R. Mambor
Group Therapy
2 hours
£15 per participant
(4-10 participants)
- In person sessions (Bridport & Poole, Dorset) and online.
- Open-ended explorative analytical therapy or agreed fixed number of counselling sessions, focussing on a specific issue.
- Ecotherapy (in person outdoor sessions) available in West Dorset, UK.
- Weekly sessions (unless otherwise agreed).
- Spoken languages: English & Romanian
Contact for Booking
Reach out for a confidential conversation regarding your therapeutic needs and to schedule an initial consultation.
im-psychotherapy@outlook.com
+44 (0) 7704 995903
Phone
Focus Areas
Personal development
Relationship difficulties
Intrusive thoughts
Depression
Addiction
Trauma
Abuse
Bereavement
Gender dysphoria
Body dysmorphia
Eating disorders
Identity issues
Anxiety/Panic attacks
Emotional hypersensitivity
Cognitive overwhelm
Low self-esteem
Suicidal thoughts
Unwanted behaviours
Anger management
Relating & Communication problems
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Adverse Childhood Experiences
Sexual/intimacy issues
Jörgen Hansson (image only)
personalised support for your therapeutic journey
Relationship loss
Displacement trauma
Disenfranchisement
Cultural fluency
Dream Interpretation
UKCP registered member, UKATA, EATA
Ioana Morpurgo, MA
Ioana is a psychotherapist in advanced training in Transactional Analysis, a widely recognised analytic and psychotherapeutic framework devised by Eric Berne throughout the 1960s and 70s to adapt the outdated Freudian psychoanalytic model to contemporary dynamics.
Transactional Analysis bases its practice in the model of a three-part psyche: the Parent Ego State (social norms and authority figures introjects), Adult Ego State (our present proportionately engaged self) & Child Ego State (the seat of our 'shadow' self, where we store false beliefs, rigid representations, unconscious drives and desires, unprocessed memories, unexplored fears but also the potential for better, deeper, happier versions of ourselves.)
Ioana offers a protective, empowering, reflective and confidential environment for her clients on their journey to self-awareness, freedom and interpersonal well-being. Her clinical work combines scientific methodology with a relational humanistic approach to encourage sustainable change. Her framework incorporates radical and existential perspectives.
She holds a Master's Degree in Cultural Anthropology & Political Sciences and is working towards completion of Level 7 (MSc) advanced training in Transactional Analysis. She is a Registered Member of UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), UK Association for Transactional Analysis (UKATA) and European Association for Transactional Analysis (EATA) and of PEN (Writers for Freedom of Expression)
She occasionally publishes academic essays on culture, politics and psychotherapy, plays the piano and lives with her family in West Dorset, UK.