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Angela Bridge
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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
Profile
- Race related transference dyad
- Black focus therapy
- Internalised racism
- Colonalism and imperialism affects on Black beauty aesthetics
Biography
I am a professional doctorate student within the Psychoanalytic-Psychosocial Department and also run a private practice as a psychodynamic therapist. While I am open to working with clients from all backgrounds, my clinical focus is primarily with Black women and female-identifying clients. I specialise in supporting the development and consolidation of the self through a relational, trauma-informed, and culturally attuned psychodynamic approach. My work emphasises exploring identity, intersubjective patterns, and the effects of systemic and socially constructed stereotypes to dismantle oppressive narratives and foster authentic, empowered selfhood.
Qualifications
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Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling and Therapy The Manor House Centre for Psychotherapy and Counselling (2023)
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Master of Arts in Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy University of Essex (2025)
Research and professional activities
Thesis
Afro Hair as a Transferential Object: The Black Adolescent Female Client and Black Female Therapist Dyad, in the School Setting Psychodynamic Therapy Consulting Room
The Project entails using the past therapy notes (prior to 3 months before the date of the ethical approval being granted) of up to four patients (research participants) taken during the course of Counselling/Psychotherapy with me. These notes which I made during the patient work constitute the data/material for this research. Any notes from 3 months prior to the date of the ethical approval being granted onwards, including the present and future notes relating to the therapy, will not be part o
Supervisor: Dr Deborah Wright