Working Together

My Approach

I create a safe, non-judgemental space where you can bring your worries, share your thoughts and feelings, and be heard with empathy and compassion. Whatever you are going through, whether it’s anxiety, depression, questions about your relationships or your identity, difficult experiences in your past, or maybe just a general feeling that something isn’t right, you don’t have to deal with it alone.

If you are coming to therapy it is likely you are experiencing something pressing or difficult. My approach aims to support you with whatever you are currently facing, while also making space to explore and understand what’s underlying these experiences. This might include exploring your early life and upbringing, and how early patterns of relating might be subtly repeating with friends and partners. Gaining insight into how you are feeling right now, as well as what has contributed to this from your past experience, can offer you different choices going forward and give you the possibility for genuine and lasting change.

I work in a relational way, meaning I am present as another human being in our sessions, offering warmth and compassion as you navigate whatever waters you currently find yourself in. I won’t prescribe homework, set an agenda, or use worksheets. Instead, I want our work to feel like a collaboration. I’ll invite you to bring whatever feels most present for you and together we will explore how you think and feel about it, and the meaning you make out of it. Working in this way makes space for a deeper kind of work than is possible with more structured approaches.

I am an integrative therapist, which means I draw on a number of different theories and will adjust my approach to what feels right for our work together, creating sessions that are tailored and personal to you.

Beginning Therapy

It’s important that you find a therapist that you feel comfortable with. In order to get a sense of how it might be to work together I offer a few options before starting:

  • A free phone call. This is a chance to share what brings you to therapy, and to ask any questions you might have. The call can be useful but it isn’t essential so if you want to jump straight into a trial session you can.

  • A trial session. This is close to what a regular session with me would be like. It is 50 minutes long and charged at a reduced rate. In this session, I’ll likely invite you to share in greater depth what has brought you to seek therapy, what your hopes and goals are, and invite you to ask any questions about the process or the way that I work. I might offer questions or prompts if it feels important to explore specific areas. The goal here is not to cover everything but instead to give you a sense of what it would be like to work together and hopefully to provide a useful starting point.

  • Starting. If at this point you would like to continue into sessions together we would find a regular session time, either in person or online, that would work each week for you, I would reserve that time for you and we would begin working together.

If you’d like to get started, or have any other questions, then get in contact using the button below. Alternatively, you can head to the FAQs page where your question may have been answered.

What in your life is calling you,

When all the noise is silenced

The meetings adjourned

The lists laid aside

And the wild iris blooms

By itself

In the dark forest

What still pulls on your soul

- Rumi