Psychotherapy offers a space to explore emotional and relational difficulties with care, curiosity, and depth. I offer psychotherapy that focuses on understanding emotional and relational patterns that have often developed over time — particularly those shaped by early relationships, trauma, or ongoing stress. Rather than focusing only on symptom management, the work aims to address underlying difficulties in a way that supports more durable change.
My approach is relational, meaning therapy pays attention to how patterns of relating and responding emerge — both in your life and within the therapy relationship itself. Change happens not only through insight, but through experiencing a thoughtful, reliable, and responsive therapeutic relationship, over time.
Some concerns can be addressed relatively quickly; others benefit from consistency and continuity, particularly when difficulties are long-standing or have been shaped by earlier experiences. The pace and focus of therapy are shaped collaboratively, with regular opportunities to reflect on how the work is progressing.
While the work is exploratory, it is not unstructured. Sessions have purpose and direction, while allowing space for what feels most important to emerge.
I primarily work from a psychotherapy perspective that allows time and continuity, particularly when supporting people with trauma and long-standing emotional or relational patterns. You can read more about this approach and what it involves here.
Schema Therapy helps identify and gently change long-standing patterns that often originate in childhood and continue into adult life. It offers a structured yet compassionate way of understanding how these patterns affect your relationships, emotions, and sense of self.
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) supports the processing of distressing or traumatic experiences that may continue to affect you in the present. It can help reduce the emotional intensity of memories so they feel more manageable and less intrusive over time.
This approach often suits people who are seeking a deeper understanding of themselves, who may have tried other forms of therapy, or who sense that their difficulties are connected to longer-standing patterns rather than a single issue — and who are open to working with depth, care, and collaboration.
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