My Services
Psychotherapy offers a space where you are invited to pause and turn your attention inward. In the midst of everyday demands, expectations and roles, it can be difficult to notice what you are actually feeling or needing. Therapy offers a quiet, confidential place to slow down and become more attentive to your inner life. It gives you an opportunity to reflect on your own experience.
From a Transactional Analysis and systemic perspective, emotional struggles are not only personal, but are shaped by the relationships, contexts and stories we are part of. Feelings such as anxiety, sadness, emptiness or restlessness can be understood as meaningful responses to your life circumstances, rather than problems to be fixed. This approach invites compassion and understanding for all parts of your experience.
In psychotherapy, these experiences are explored with openness and curiosity, paying attention to how patterns develop in relation to others and to the world around you. Through conversation and reflection, new meanings can emerge. Over time, psychotherapy can support a deeper sense of connection to yourself and others, greater emotional freedom and a more flexible and authentic way of being in your life.
Whether you are seeking therapy for anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties or personal growth, my goal is to offer a calm, supportive space where insight and change can take root. Psychotherapy can provide a steady grounding allowing you to rediscover balance and begin shaping a life that feels more aligned with who you truly are.
The best way out is always through.
- Robert Frost
I work with couples using two complementary approaches: the Developmental Model and Transactional Analysis.
The Developmental Model looks at relationships like human growth — a series of natural stages, each with its own challenges. Couples usually start out feeling completely in sync, then hit a stage where real differences surface, which can feel unsettling but is actually a normal part of growing closer. From there, most couples move through periods of wanting more independence before finding their way back to each other, eventually settling into a steadier, more honest kind of closeness. Many couples arrive in therapy right at that point where differences are surfacing, worried something's gone wrong when really, they've hit a normal growing point.
Alongside this, I use Transactional Analysis to help couples notice how they're talking to each other in the moment, for example, when a conversation slips into one partner sounding like a scolding parent and the other reacting like a told-off child, instead of two equal adults working things out together.
Combined these approaches can help improve communication in different ways: understanding your stage explains why certain conversations keep going wrong, while spotting old patterns as they happen makes it easier to slow down, say what you mean and really hear each other, leading to fewer circular arguments and more of a sense of being heard.
Not every couple seeking couples therapy is trying to stay together at all costs, and that's alright. It can be useful to have a space to work out, clearly and without pressure, whether staying together or separating is right. If separating is the answer, I can help you do that as kindly and respectfully as possible, especially where children or an ongoing family relationship will remain part of both your lives.