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Why seek therapy?

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There are many reasons, as well as possibilities for seeking therapy, life can throw up many kinds of challenges. Carrying the weight of unresolved issues, challenging dynamics or moving through significant life transitions can be burdensome. If this is the case, you may be feeling overloaded, stuck, overwhelmed, lost, or disconnected with a limited capacity to engage with life. Therapy can be an opportunity to be deeply seen and felt, to process difficult feelings, develop new understandings, as well as, to find new ways of being in the world, that cultivate a sense of ease and fulfilment, to name just a few. 

 

I bring a lifelong passion and a deep care for understanding how our life experiences shape the way we see ourselves and relate to the world around us. Over many years of academic study, personal development, and therapeutic practice, I’ve come to understand how deeply our painful past experiences can lead to a diminished sense of who we are. I have also come to understand and witness the profound changes that are possible, with the right conditions, alongside willingness and openness to the therapeutic journey.  

 

I see therapy as an opportunity to explore and move through anything that may be holding you back from a life that is meaningful to you. From a compassionate view, it can be seen that we adapt to survive challenging circumstances, and these adaptations or coping strategies that once helped, can come to inhibit us, resulting in feelings of stuckness and disconnection. When deep emotions like fear, grief, anger, shame, or despair are neglected and not processed, we become split off from ourselves and our bodies, and therefore, our inner guidance system. Attempts to keep such emotions at bay can manifest in many different kinds of psychological and physical symptoms. These attempts drain our energy and sense of self, while impacting our relationships, health, and potential to thrive. ​On top of this, we live in a culture that advocates that we “live our best life”, placing value on success, happiness and productivity, whilst often overriding our core human needs for tenderness, depth, rest, and connection to ourselves, others, and the present moment.  

 

​Therapy can be a space to pause, to listen inwardly, and to explore the wisdom of the psyche with care, presence, and understanding, as well as a space to experience being supported in the process of real change; to rediscover agency, meaning and a sense of grounded aliveness.​ 

 

Whether you’re facing something specific or just feel like something isn’t quite right, these are some of the issues that I can support you with - 

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• Anxiety

• Depression

• Inhibited self-expression

• Life transitions

• Relationship dynamics

• Co-dependency or hyper-independence

• Hyperactivity

• Family issues 

• Workplace issues

• Grief and loss

• Self-doubt, confusion,

• Shame

• Perfectionism

• People-pleasing

• Emotional overwhelm

• Addiction

• Dissociation

• Complex or developmental trauma

• Fertility issues

• Intrusive thoughts

• OCD

• Thought loops

• Intergenerational trauma

• Identity issues

• Emotional, sexual or physical abuse

• PTSD

• C-PTSD

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