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Suzanna Lopez | Therapist
Relational, depth psychotherapy for individuals, couples and families.

Exploring the relationship with ourselves and the relationships we create with others.

05/10/2026

There is a difference between changing your mind and losing confidence in your right to have one.

If your experience was often corrected when you were young, e.g."That didn't happen", "You're too sensitive", "You're making a fuss", "That's not what I meant", you may have learned to give other people's version of events more authority than your own.

That can follow us into adult relationships. You know a conversation upset you, but quickly start building the other person's case. You notice something feels wrong, then wonder whether you're being unfair. You rehearse what you want to say because you need to be certain you can justify it.

None of this means our perceptions are always accurate. Of course they aren't. Other people see things we miss, and being able to reconsider our position matters.

However, there is a difference between questioning ourselves and routinely overruling ourselves. The first allows new information in. The second can leave us knowing what everyone else thinks before we've worked out what we think ourselves.

04/10/2026

I offer psychotherapy for individuals, couples and family members, with a particular focus on the relationship you have with yourself and with others.

I work with relationship difficulties, childhood trauma, neurodivergence, self-esteem, loss, and recurring patterns that can feel difficult to understand or change.

📍 Scartho, Grimsby
💻 Online across the UK
🌿 UKCP-registered psychotherapist

If you’d like to enquire about availability, please send me a message.

03/10/2026

There is always interpretation in an encounter.
We notice a pause, a change in expression, a particular choice of words, a shift in someone's presence. Almost immediately, these observations acquire meaning. And because that meaning often feels self-evident to us, it can be difficult to recognise how much of ourselves is involved in making it.
This becomes particularly interesting in psychotherapy. A therapist doesn't observe from somewhere outside the relationship. We bring our histories, theoretical frameworks, sensitivities and expectations into the room too. What we notice in another person may tell us something important about them, but our response is also part of the relationship taking shape between us.
For me, this doesn't make interpretation less valuable. It makes certainty less interesting.
There is something important about being able to hold an understanding of another person without requiring them to fit inside it; to allow their experience to alter ours, and ours perhaps to alter theirs.
Meaning is not always something one person discovers about another. At times, it is something that emerges between us.

03/10/2026

Someone criticises us and it stays with us for days. Someone says something appreciative and we find a reason for it not to count.
That isn't because the criticism is more accurate. When something fits an existing belief about ourselves, it can be much easier to accept. Experiences that contradict that belief may be questioned, minimised or explained away. So, an old belief can survive despite quite a lot of evidence against it.
This is one of the things that can make change complicated. It isn't always enough to have different experiences. We also have to become able to recognise when we're filtering those experiences through what we already expect to be true.

02/10/2026

The relationship you have with yourself affects how you experience work, love, friendships, boundaries, rest and support.

If several of these slides resonated, you're not alone. Most of these ways of relating to ourselves developed for a reason. The good news is that relationships can change. Including the one you have with yourself.

Which slide felt most familiar?

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Grimsby
DN32 9TD

Opening Hours

Monday	1pm - 6pm
Tuesday	9am - 8pm
Wednesday	9am - 8pm
Thursday	9am - 8pm

Website

http://www.alma-psychotherapy.com/

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