About Therapy
My aim as a therapist is to work with you to help you feel better and enjoy your own life more. In our sessions, we'll start from whatever brings you to therapy. We'll go at whatever pace is safe for you. We'll keep working together for as long as you like: I work both short- and long-term, though therapy often works best if we can develop a good relationship over time.
Issues You Might Bring
Among the issues you might bring are
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problems with loss and grieving
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problems with anger
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anxiety or depression
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trauma from childhood or later relationships
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questions about gender or sexuality
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problems with sex or eating
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intrusive thoughts or voices
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experiences of dissociation from yourself or others
and many others. Therapy often begins with an issue that has become a crisis: overwhelming, unbearable, or a real problem in your work or relationships. Where it unfolds from there is something we will discover together. ​
About Integration
Integrative therapy brings together several different traditions. Part of it is grounded in person-centred and Gestalt therapies, which focus on the healing relationship. This means I'll work with you to express the thoughts and feelings that come up in our sessions. The other part is grounded in psychodynamic therapies, which focus on parts of our minds of which we're not usually conscious. This means we'll try to become curious about words, images, or even bodily sensations that seem to come up spontaneously. We may also talk about your dreams. If you have a religious or spiritual side, that too can play a role. The goal is to change the way you feel about yourself and the world around you and create new possibilities for action and experience.
