Transform your well-being through therapy
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 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.
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 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.
Therapy can help with a range of difficulties
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Anxiety and Depression |
Relationship Difficulties |
Social Role Dysfunction |
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Traumatic Experience |
Attachment- Related Issues |
Self-esteem, Self-criticism |
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Responding to Oppression |
Grieving and Loss |
Compulsivity and Addiction |
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Life Goals, Life Changes |
Dealing with Conflict |
Men's Work - Reconnection |
The ultimate purpose of therapy
Whatever the problem that brings you to therapy, I believe that the ultimate purpose of this work 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
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.
It's 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.
It’s my job as a therapist, as I see it, to enable your sharing of what is conscious, and your exploration of what is not, balancing these two, keeping you in connection with your growing edge, and walking alongside you on that journey toward your therapeutic purpose.
