About Open Mind Therapy
Clinical expertise. Human understanding.
I am Ricardo Dans, BSc, MSc, PgDip, a Registered Member MBACP, founder of the Open Mind Method and director of Open Mind Therapy.
I founded Open Mind Therapy for adults who often function well externally but find themselves repeatedly caught in anxiety, self-criticism, over-responsibility or difficult relationship patterns — including people who have understood a great deal about themselves already but still feel stuck.
Care without disappearing from yourself.
You may be highly attuned to other people’s needs, quick to take responsibility and uncomfortable disappointing others.
The aim is not to help you become less caring. It is to help care become less self-abandoning.
Depth, structure and room to think.
My work is integrative. It draws on psychodynamic thinking, DBT-informed skills, somatic-informed awareness and work that strengthens self-direction and adaptive action.
The work is paced and collaborative. There is room for depth, but also for structure.
I also work with identity, sexuality and GSRD concerns, including where these intersect with shame, belonging, relationships or self-expression.
Depth, present-moment awareness and deliberate action held within one coherent frame.
Calm
Therapy needs enough containment to think clearly.
Specialist
The work should be clinically thoughtful and grounded in recognised therapeutic traditions.
Human
Therapy should not feel cold, scripted or impersonal.
Precise
Vague reassurance is not the same as understanding.