About Jim Hall
Since 1992, I have been working as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist.
Now based outside Ballyclare, I am committed to offering a caring, confidential, and effective professional service which supports others in working through complex issues.
Over the years I have gained considerable experience in working
with a range of issues including:
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Difficulties in forming and maintaining relationships
- Pastoral care
- Bereavement or emotional loss related to life changes
- Illness or disability
- Occupational stress or burn-out
- Mental health issues including, phobias, eating disorders, panic attacks or obsessions
- Life feeling empty or lacking in meaning
- Abuse related issues, sexual, physical, emotional & coercive control
- Post-trauma care
- Addictions
Services Offered
"Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is a process that helps individuals gain a deeper understanding of profound emotional difficulties. It is focused on engaging the individual in a secure therapeutic relationship that explores unconscious aspects of emotional life which are usually unknown to the person yet have a strong impact on how life is lived and experienced.
These unknown parts of the person can often get expressed in repeating patterns which are destructive or impair the person’s quality of life. Therapy aims to resolve these internal conflicts and develop new ways of living."
(Northern Ireland Institute of Human Relations)
Pastoral therapy is a means by which Christians can explore aspects of their life within a faith perspective.
It contains many of the elements of psychoanalytic psychotherapy but is rooted in the core belief that God is a loving Father who has always wanted His children to live in the reality and experience of that love.
Relationships are often our greatest sources of both joy and pain. Couple therapy offers a safe and neutral space to explore and understand difficult issues, in the hope that participants can find and develop new, mutually satisfying ways of relating to each other.
Supervision of our work has become increasingly professionalised in recent years and has become an essential element in establishing and maintaining safe, effective, ethical practice, thus promoting personal and professional development.
Since 1985, I have gained extensive experience in group and individual supervision in a variety of settings:
- Counselling
- Medicine
- Pastoral Care
- Psychotherapy
- Social Work
- Youth Work
- Hospice Care
- Education
