David Rayner · Counselling in the City
Psychodynamic psychotherapy · Singapore

A quiet garden room in the middle of the city

Face to face near Dhoby Ghaut, or online. A place to say what has been hard to say — and to be heard without hurry.

the smoke moves as you do
The Approach

Depth, with practicality

David Rayner
David Rayner, MA · UKCP & BACP registered

I am a British psychodynamic psychotherapist, in practice for seventeen years — the last sixteen of them in Singapore. Psychodynamic work differs from many talking therapies in that it aims at deep-seated change in personality and emotional development, alongside relieving the symptoms that brought you.

Where it helps, I combine this with cognitive behavioural therapy — practical, evidence-based strategies for unhelpful patterns of thought and behaviour. Understanding what moves beneath the surface, and having something workable to do about it, are not rivals. They belong together.

Registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) and the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).


What I Work With

The things people bring

Life changes

Relocation, career endings and beginnings, separation, retirement — the transitions that unsettle more than expected.

Sadness & loss

Grief with a name, and the quieter kind without one — general feelings of sadness, loss and dissatisfaction with life.

Anxiety & stress

Worry that has outgrown its causes; the pressures of working life in an intense city.

Relationships

Patterns that repeat across partners, families and workplaces — and what they are trying to say.


Practicalities

Plainly stated

Session50 minutes · SG$350
WhereHandy Road, near Dhoby Ghaut MRT — or online
DaysMonday to Friday
LanguageEnglish

A first session is a conversation, not a commitment — a chance to see whether the work, and the fit, feel right.


About

One inquiry, different registers

Alongside the consulting room I keep a visual art practice — paintings, smoke works, folded forms — concerned with the same question from the other side: how form emerges from what is formless. The smoke drifting on this page is made the way my fumage works are made.

The art practice lives at davidrayner.art ↗


Contact

Begin with a message

A line or two about what brings you is enough. I reply personally, usually within a day or two.

Phone / WhatsApp+65 8498 4358