Who I help
People come to therapy for all sorts of reasons — sometimes clearly named, sometimes just a sense that something isn't right. These are some of the areas I work with most often. If you don't see your difficulty here, that doesn't mean I can't help; you're welcome to ask.
Anxiety can be loud — panic, dread, a racing mind — or quiet: a constant low hum of unease, a body that never quite relaxes. Often it is trying to tell us something. In therapy we can listen to it together, understand what it's protecting you from, and gradually loosen its grip.
Depression often looks like nothing from the outside: getting up, going to work, replying to messages — while inside everything feels flat, heavy or pointless. Therapy offers a place where you don't have to pretend, and where we can begin to understand what the low mood might be about.
Perhaps you keep finding yourself in the same kind of relationship, or the same argument. Perhaps closeness feels dangerous, or distance feels worse. Our earliest relationships teach us what to expect from others — and those expectations quietly shape our adult ones. Therapy is a place to notice these patterns and try out new ways of being with someone.
Grief is not a problem to be solved; it's love with nowhere to go. Whether you've lost a person, a relationship, a hoped-for future or a version of yourself, therapy offers somewhere your grief is welcome — for as long as it takes, in whatever form it comes.
For some people, the harshest relationship in their life is the one with themselves: an inner critic that is never satisfied, a feeling of being not quite enough, or a fraud about to be found out. These voices usually have a history. Understanding where they came from is often the beginning of answering them back.
Becoming a parent. Children leaving home. A career that no longer fits. A diagnosis, a divorce, a milestone birthday. Even welcome changes can stir up unexpected feelings and questions about who we are. Therapy can be a steady place to stand while the ground shifts.
When work takes more than it gives — when you're running on empty, dreading Mondays, or wondering how you ended up here — it often touches deeper questions about worth, purpose and what's expected of you. We can explore all of that, not just the workload.
Sometimes there's no label: just a feeling of being stuck, of life happening at a distance, or of something missing. This is a perfectly good place to start. Finding the words for it can be part of the work itself.
It does. If it's troubling you, it's worth talking about. Get in touch and we can think about it together.
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