Working together

I won’t be giving you tools to manage your symptoms and sending you on your way. What’s important is that we uncover your authentic experience and your needs.  

In the room, I use whatever helps us access more of yourself, usually talking, but it could be creative work such as using a sandtray, images, drawings or dreams.  Or perhaps I share what I’m experiencing, because what happens between us is the work. Patterns show up in how we relate to each other, not just in what you describe happening in the outside world. 

Change can’t be rushed, and I won't pretend I can make it happen faster than it does. Sometimes the medicine is simply being with someone who doesn't need you to be any different than you are right now.

What I do believe: that when we have less shame about who we are, and better access to what we actually feel, we start making different choices without having to force it. That grief is real pain about what happened, or what never got to happen. It's the door to feeling fully alive again. Grief is not the opposite of vitality. It is the way to it.  

My training has included person-centred therapy, relational therapy, body based therapy and ecological therapy, and all of these influence how I work. But mostly what I try to bring is attention, patience, kindness and curiosity to your experience.