Is therapy for me?
Are you facing difficulties or challenges that you either don't understand or that you feel powerless to do something about? Are there specific internal issues that you can identify that you want to resolve, like anxiety, or depression, or problems in relationship - whether that's with others, or with yourself? Do you find that you are self-critical, self-doubting, unable to respond to the events of your life with freedom, and instead trapped in patterns you cannot seem to overcome on your own?
Are you facing difficulties or challenges that you either don't understand or that you feel powerless to do something about? Are there specific internal issues that you can identify that you want to resolve, like anxiety, or depression, or problems in relationship - whether that's with others, or with yourself? Do you find that you are self-critical, self-doubting, unable to respond to the events of your life with freedom, and instead trapped in patterns you cannot seem to overcome on your own?
Transform your well-being through therapy
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Allowing yourself the resource of therapy equates to valuing yourself, but it’s a hard, oftentimes scary thing to do. We come to therapy because of something in our lives that we are having difficulty facing alone - but sharing this private difficulty with someone else is a major challenge in itself. You don’t have to do it alone. Whatever the difficulty, I’m committed to actively working alongside you from a place of great respect and encouragement – for your wounded parts, and for the self you were put here on this earth to be. |
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Therapy can help to address a range of issues
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Anxiety and Depression |
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Self-esteem, Self-criticism |
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Grieving and Loss |
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Life Goals, Life Changes |
The ultimate purpose of talk therapy
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Whatever the specific issues are that you want to overcome, I believe that the ultimate purpose of therapy is to learn about (and work gently around) what is keeping you from - what is in the way of - your experience of love for yourself, within your own body. This is no easy task; it has to be done carefully. It's no good pointing straight away at the clearing in the centre of the forest. We may well have to go tree by tree. |
The therapist's role
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I am not the one doing the going; you are the one in the forest - you are the one doing the travelling. It's your journey, and it’s my job as a therapist to watch and listen for information about which tree is blocking the path ahead, which roots are growing across the path and getting your feet all tangled up. It's my job as a therapist to watch for thresholds - the limitations of what you are willing, or able, or ready to engage with, the facts you are trying to share with me about where you are at right now, facts often only being communicated by the unconscious, and in whispers, my job to hold onto my intuitions until they might truly prove useful to you, to watch out for when you go over threshold, and to always be trying to maintain the working alliance between us. |
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Your therapeutic purpose
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As your therapist my job, as I see it, is to facilitate your sharing of what is conscious and your exploration of what is not, balancing these two, keeping you in connection with your growing edge, helping you to gain insight, and walking alongside you on that journey toward overcoming your problems and achieving your ultimate therapeutic purpose. |
