In 1980 Liza Glenn became attached part-time to a West London General Practice, where for 8 years she ran an N.H.S. group for patients of that practice. After the group closed, she continued with what has since become widely recognised as a valuable provision within Primary Care, offering assessments, brief therapy, short-term therapy, very occasionally longer-term psychotherapy, or couple therapy, to a wide variety of N.H.S patients; Liza is currently attached to two General Practices, employed by a newly established Primary Care Trust. She is committed to providing first class counselling and psychotherapy within the N.H.S., alongside her private practice, and believes that the ‘talking therapies' are entirely complementary to and compatible with prescribed drugs which are often necessary at the beginning of treatment, or during an acute phase of illness.
Liza finds this model, in which the (G.P.) doctor, the counsellor and the patient may be thought of as working within a triangular relationship, particularly effective, stimulating, and rewarding; while the practice itself provides a virtual ‘secure base'
Supervised for a time by John Bowlby, Liza has found in his ‘Attachment Theory' a humane and compassionate foundation for her work as a psychotherapist, and the notion of a 'secure base' underpins her understanding of the therapeutic alliance in all settings.
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