I specialise in the kind of work that is explorative, with adults and children, as a way to reach deeper issues. The work is to regulate, contain, and symbolize —through words or through play — fragments of deep loss and pain, desires and narratives that have been stifled, emotions that have been muted over time and to then integrate it into one’s awareness. 

In the work with adults, by thinking together and working through the roots of one’s emotional pain comes greater capacity to wield choice in one’s life, and engage with one’s partner, family, friends and one’s child(ren) in a richer and meaningful way.

How does a session go?

You will share what is coming into your mind. As the therapy space deepens, links will start to form; your words and gestures, your raised questions, habits, behaviours can start to be examined with curiosity, the meanings of it that are formed by you, underneath your conscious awareness. Over the course of time, we will understand how patterns from early years have been repeated, reinforced by systemic forces and ruptures from later years, that now make up the fabric of your world, your identity and relationships. Through that understanding, and your ability to articulate it for yourself, you will gain more emotional knowledge, transmuting the way you relate to yourself and others.

What might it be like working with you?

To facilitate change and healing, I will challenge you with honesty. At other times, with playfulness and humour. Trained psychodynamically, within a social-cultural framework, I step in to listen deeply for when certain experiences are beneficial to continue feeling and thinking and when to reel you back when what you’re thinking, reliving and feeling is too much, or simply not beneficial for you.