Talking helps, talking heals.
Talking in-depth about one's emotional life is often a very beneficial process, leading to discovering important truths about oneself and a range of noticeable positive effects in living life. It’s an opportunity to put unspoken things into words and not have them cause unnecessary silent suffering.
Therapy isn't just for those in a mental health crisis, it is for anyone willing to open up, look within and talk.

Get to know yourself better.
Psychotherapy is a place to think and feel, to ask questions, to share closely held feelings and experiences, to seek solace, comfort and courage, and to risk vulnerability. It is a place to say anything/everything. It isn’t always easy yet, emotional risk is often what precedes growth and self-knowing. Being in this process with your therapist has the power to transform core relational beliefs and patterns created in childhood and all through life. New ways of thinking and feeling often emerge.

Find the right fit.
Can you have a really good conversation with this person? Do they feel suited to help guide you through the most essential explorations? A sense of connection and resonance with a therapist and their approach is a core component of a good, effective therapy. Talking can help and heal, but it usually only happens if you are doing it with someone who has the capacity to understand you from your perspective in a meaningful way. It’s important to feel emotionally safe and comfortable (enough) with your therapist to be able to take honest risks and reap the benefits that psychotherapy can offer.


Coming to therapy

My clients

I work with a wide range of individuals, from very different backgrounds and with greatly different stories, experiences, questions and struggles. Here is an idea of what issues feature prominently in my practice:

  • Relational concerns and difficulties in all forms of relationships, understanding and negotiating them, establishing healthy boundaries in them, communication, attachment and intimacy, navigating relationship transitions, betrayals and losses, repair and resolution

  • Relational trauma in distant past, recent past and currently ongoing, and the resulting unhealed wounds

  • Unresolved childhood and family issues, including recovering from abuse and harmful early home environments, neglect and absence, significant ruptures, losses and stresses

  • Anxiety and depression, feeling stuck, shut down, overwhelmed, isolated, unable to feel at ease and at peace

  • Shame, in all the ways it both hides and reveals itself (sometimes through behaviours that feel unhealthy, self-harming, compulsive, addictive)

  • Grief and loss experiences of all kinds (loss of beloved humans, animals, places, activities and abilities)

  • Anger and the need to get to the root sources of it, as well as the feelings on the surface

  • Sexual life relating to intimacy/sexual dynamics and complexities with partner(s), sexual identity and LGBTQ+ contexts, sexual practices (including BDSM/kink and polyamory/non-monogamy)

  • Major life transitions/displacement through changes in health/body, relationship endings, career changes, geographical moves, new parenthood, care for elderly family members

  • Midlife issues and concerns, aging and its effects, taking stock of things in one's time of midlife or elder life

  • Existential concerns and crisis, death and mortality, general malaise and ennui (‘world-weariness’), finding/losing meaning in life, ethical dilemmas, freedom and responsibility, painful or impossible choices, grappling with life’s limitations, future of the planet/world

  • Work and the particular emotional impact of the relational dynamics and systemic context of the workplace

  • Creativity and both the blockages and paths to finding joy, fulfillment and empowerment through pursuits that engage one’s talents and passions

  • Men's issues and emotional well-being, offering men (across the sexuality and ‘gender norm’ spectrum) a supportive space to discuss their feelings in a way they normally might not with family, friends, co-workers (as boys and men are often still not socialized and supported to share deep emotions)