What can I expect from therapy?

People often come to me when they are tired of repeating the same emotional patterns.

You may cognitively know that you are not broken but you may still feel broken in your body. You may understand why you react the way you do, but still find yourself becoming defensive, shut down, anxious, ashamed or overwhelmed.

Therapy with me isn’t about forcing you to think positively or rushing into painful memories before you are ready. It’s about creating enough safety to understand what is happening underneath and then working carefully with the parts of you that have been carrying fear, hurt and/or anger.

The aim is NOT to become a different person. It is to become more able to meet yourself honestly and respond rather than react, and live with more choice and more freedom.

A woman with long dark hair and a white shirt has tangled yarn inside her head, while a small girl pulls a ball of yarn attached to her head, symbolizing a mental health or stress concept.
Two human profiles facing each other with open heads revealing a rainbow and a sun inside.

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson