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Relational Therapy for Individuals and Couples

When I first hear from people, the conversation might start with the shorthand we use to talk about our suffering - trauma, depression, anxiety, bereavement. Sometimes people use more heart-spoken words. Overwhelmed, disillusioned, stuck. Lost, confused, angry.

There is something universal in all of these descriptions. An experience of separation. The sense of being out of step with life and relationship. The often painful balancing act between distinction and belonging.

I have come to describe the way I work as Relational Therapy, because my life and my work have taught me that relationship is the primary ground of human experience.

Relationship is where we become who we are, it’s also where we get hurt and where we get healed; it’s where we find both pain and joy.

The therapy relationship - the way I approach it - invites you to explore all the realms of your relationships - your relationship with your self, with others, with your history and your here and now. With life.

My part in the work - through curiosity, compassion, sometimes through challenge, always through being truly interested in you - is to invite you into a renewed encounter with yourself.

Through this encounter, we throw light on habits and beliefs that might be ripe for change. We notice ways of coping and ways of being that no longer serve you well. We give attention to aspects of your nature that are calling for recognition, care and cultivation. We explore the dreams you’ve set aside. We acknowledge the fears and frustrations that too often become self-fulfilling, selfdefeating. And we get to pay patient, honest respect to the the experiences that have shaped you.

Through this therapeutic, collaborative relationship, we can find the potential for movement in your life and your relationships - opening up the possibility of a more contactful, authentic and enlivened experience of being.