Philosophy

In our current culture, we are often pressured into a blinkered concentration on goals, targets, and matching ourselves to external influences that we can lose sight of who and how we actually are in ourselves.  Our pasts can be important because they help to shape our present, but a preoccupation with what has been can also prevent us from successfully navigating through current challenges.

Therapy can provide a safe space in which you can be empowered to locate your own voice amongst the cacophony of representations we all hold of others' thoughts, expectations and feelings.

Approach

I am not interested in pathologising or labelling people and their behaviours because we all, as humans, are unified in our attempts to find a way to live with the challenges that life presents to us. How we do this is a deeply personal experience: there are no 'one size fits all' solutions, and this is why I try to help my clients to find themselves amongst all the pressures and influences they may feel.

Though my training was explicitly informed by Existential theory, the way I practice also shares much common ground with Mindfulness and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. I believe that the precondition for genuine choices and decisions is to embrace the present: It is only through understanding and accepting ourselves in the here and now that we can instigate authentic change and foster personal well-being.

Motivation

I am endlessly curious about the human experience – the confrontations we face with the givens of existence – and how my own experience resonates with this. I want to foster this curiosity in my clients. There is a lot to see and hear if we make the effort and focus, and it can be so rewarding.