What brought me here

I had some painful experiences in my teenage years that I was ill-equipped to handle on my own. The message I kept receiving was that no one understood and no one could help. Eventually things became too loud to ignore, and I sought out a therapist. It was the first time in my life I felt understood and heard by someone.

That experience is what brought me to the work.

I started out studying psychology. In the very first lecture, the teacher talked about jobs in advertising. It felt completely out of alignment with my values and why I was there. When I came across psychotherapy, with its different philosophical grounding, I was curious, and I transitioned across to study psychotherapy and counselling instead. Early on, one of my teachers spoke about the deep respect for our clients and of what happens in the room, about how fully present you have to be with someone who is bearing their soul to you. It put words to something I already felt: my first therapist had genuinely cared for me, and that care was part of what made the work possible.

How I see the work

I came from a place of being closed off relationally, of assuming I had to do things alone. I discovered that a therapist isn't an expert who can fix you, it's someone who is genuinely invested in going on the journey with you. That's where I learned that therapy is, at its core, a relationship.

We live in a culture that doesn't have much space for our emotions. Through my journey, I have learned to hold emotions with reverence. Not having a relationship with your emotions doesn't mean you don't have them. It means losing access to parts of yourself. When we can truly feel them, they are able to move through us instead of getting stuck.

This work is about the possibility of feeling more comfortable in your own skin, finding your own voice and standing more proudly in the freedom to express yourself wholeheartedly. Our problems might still be there, but the aim is more clarity and confidence in handling what life brings, and the sense that you're not doing it alone. Therapy, at its best, opens up more choice in how you respond, rather than being reactive and helpless in the face of what you feel.

I try to show up in a way that helps people feel held, and responded to appropriately. Our sessions aim to implement lasting change, one step at a time. I'm someone who is still learning. Part of this work, for me, has been about becoming a better person, not a good one, but someone more reverent, more honest, and more real. Someone who can be of service.

Investing in therapy is investing in yourself. Facing ourselves can be scary and painful, but also deeply relieving and freeing. It allows us to let go of the weights of the past, move forward into new stages of life and to meet ourselves and the world anew.