Working together

I won't hand you a set of tools for managing your symptoms and send you on your way. I'm interested in what's actually going on for you underneath the coping, underneath the version of yourself you usually show.

In the room, mostly we'll talk. But I also draw on creative and body-based ways of working, when they open up something that talking alone doesn't reach. Sometimes I'll share what I notice happening between us, because how we relate to each other often says as much as what you describe happening outside.

Change can't be rushed, and I won't pretend to make it happen faster than it does. But over time, many clients find that as they get more access to what they actually feel and what instinctively feels right, things start to shift, sometimes without having to force anything. Part of that can involve grief: for what happened, or what didn't get to happen. Grief isn't the opposite of feeling alive. It's often the way back to it.

My training has included person-centred, relational, body-based and ecological approaches, and all of them shape how I work. But mostly what I bring is attention, patience, kindness and curiosity.