My Approach

Being able to speak freely is not always the same as feeling able to be fully yourself with another person. For me, something important can happen when a relationship develops in which there is less need to perform, accommodate or have everything worked out.
The relationship we create together is at the heart of my approach. It offers a space where different parts of your experience can be present. It can consider what feels certain alongside what feels contradictory, the things that make sense and those that are much harder to understand.
Over time, the familiar can begin to look a little different. Things that have always seemed simply to be part of who you are may become more interesting to wonder about.
There is also something particular about exploring these things within a relationship rather than entirely on your own. What is experienced between us can sometimes bring another dimension to what we are trying to understand. Not really something to be interpreted from a distance, but as something we can become curious about together.
My approach is integrative and relational, informed by person-centred, psychodynamic, attachment. These perspectives provide different ways of thinking about experience, but they sit in the background.

About Me

Life can look entirely together from the outside and feel very different from within. We can become remarkably good at functioning, achieving and meeting the needs of others while losing sight of what is happening in ourselves. Sometimes it is only when there is space to look more closely that different questions begin to emerge. People come to therapy for many different reasons, including times when the reason itself can be difficult to find. I am interested in what it is like to be you, rather than beginning with an assumption about what needs to change. That may mean exploring experiences that feel challenging, or becoming curious about patterns, relationships and ways of being that have developed over time. What appears straightforward on the surface sometimes becomes more complex and more understandable when there is space to explore it without judgement or expectation. What emerges in therapy is not always what we expect to find. As we begin to understand your experiences more fully, we may notice connections that were previously difficult to see, or find new ways of thinking about things that have felt familiar or fixed for a long time. Therapy can create a different kind of conversation, one in which there is time to stay with uncertainty, notice what might ordinarily be passed over and allow understanding to develop rather than forcing an answer.

Types of Therapies Offered

• Integrative Psychotherapist