Relational integrative psychotherapy and counselling

My work is in service of you experiencing more agency in your inner world: we will notice, name, relate, and integrate your feelings with greater understanding and depth. By doing this, you can develop your responses to living and enjoy greater self-understanding — moving beyond previous ingrained reactions and perspectives that no longer feel alive.

Developing more choice, self-trust, and flexibility in how you meet yourself and others is what you have been seeking: to walk a path embracing the parts of you that carry pain, uncertainty, loss and shame, and to understand that these exiles bear gifts, is one of the key paradoxes that well-grounded psychotherapy works with.

Embracing the light and dark sides of a character and personality — facing the elaborate, complex and layered parts of ourselves. With a little bit of courage, a little bit of care, not just stopping at accepting who we are, but loving who we are becoming.

This is the process of individuation: a person becoming whole and unique.

Hiding or avoiding your core feelings leaves you tired, decreases your motivation, and leaves you bored and shut down. It eats your identity, sense of self, and purpose.

Therapy can change your life. It requires both you and I to invest in building trust together. We call this the therapeutic alliance — a developed trust and care that becomes the bedrock change is built on.

It is a process of care, which offers ongoing support, versus a cure, which can sometimes miss the person experiencing suffering.