It doesn’t have to be a crisis to be existential

Psychotherapy offers a path to explore and understand your life experiences with greater depth and meaning.

Similarly, philosophy emphasises the importance of authenticity, personal responsibility, and actively making sense of your existence.

You bring your experiences, curiosities and concerns, I’ll bring professional know-how and therapeutic interventions, and together we work to untangle the complexity of life.

Areas of Focus

  • Anxiety

  • Career and personal burnout

  • Depression

  • Adjustment, transitions and change

  • Existential questioning 

  • Loneliness and isolation

  • Philosophical framing for life orientation and decision making

  • Self actualisation/Individuation/ Growth and Self Discovery

  • Health psychology specifically Lyme Disease and other tick-borne illnesses

  • Communication and relationships

  • Sexuality and gender identity exploration

Therapeutic Approaches

  • Existential Psychotherapy

  • Humanistic / Person Centred

  • Solution Focused Brief Therapy

  • Philosophy, Virtue and Practical Ethics

  • Psychodynamic Brief Therapy

  • Gender, culture, and trauma informed practice

In session we draw upon your individual strengths, resources and values to facilitate understanding and changes in emotions, thoughts, actions, and behaviours.

My philosophical lens is rooted in Phenomenology as well as Existentialism, Stoicism, Virtue and Practical Ethics. Philosophy can create a structure to draw upon in how to approach life and problems, with the slight comfort that although a problem may be new to us, it is not new to humanity.

My psychotherapeutic perspective is Humanistic, and includes professional development in Existential Psychotherapy and Philosophy, Psychodynamic-Interpersonal Therapy, Solution Focused Brief Therapy and Jungian Therapy techniques.

On a more personal note

A therapist’s origin story can sometimes illuminate how they end up in this profession. For years I worked in corporate and agency marketing, with a clear trajectory up the corporate ladder. 

Becoming ill with Lyme Disease and Babesia in 2015 changed the direction of not only my personal life, but also my profession. Nine years later, with a Master’s degree in Counselling and Psychotherapy, the concept of Amor Fati is realised; the love of one’s fate, the unconditional acceptance of life and of all things that happen in our life’s journey.