Maybe suffering of some kind has brought you to look for a psychotherapist? If so, it could be that your problems are ones you can easily name and define: depression, anxiety, relationship issues… Or it may be something less tangible… Life can be difficult! Whatever brings you, my experience tells me that speaking about it, feeling into it and finding words for it in the process of personal therapy can be be immensely helpful. The space of psychotherapy is particular – offering a different kind of connection and intimacy to that provided by friends or partners. As brilliant as AI can be at expert knowledge, pattern recognition and even something that resembles empathy, our human presence with and for each other, flawed as it may be, offers a unique and irreplaceable kind of meeting.

If suffering is part of every human life, what makes the difference is how we are with it. Can we bring acceptance and self-compassion to what cannot be changed? Make creative changes that move our lives in the right direction for ourselves?

Key to this is our inner relationship – our relationship with our own experience. When we can bring an accepting, compassionate presence to ourselves, we gain the skills to find a path through our suffering and to develop as individuals. What might get in the way? Inner critics, shame, defences against feeling that were put in place for survival… We can work to understand all of that and develop a more welcoming space for all aspects of our inner life.

I have worked with all kinds of people in my time as a psychotherapist and I remain fascinated by people and their stories and ways of living. Some of my particular interests now include how to support ourselves in a turbulent world, late life transitions, inter-generational trauma and integrating psychedelic experiences.

Core Process Psychotherapy