My approach

I work with clients using an integrated therapeutic approach to psychotherapy. As far as I am concerned, there is no such thing as "one size fits all". Every person is unique with diverse circumstances, contexts, and challenges. I am neurodiversity-affirming and endeavour to de-stigmatize and de-pathologize difficulties that arise from living with a neurodivergent mind in a neurotypical world. 
Rather than utilising any specific "favourite" approach, I develop (in collaboration with my clients), a customised, personalised therapeutic intervention to address the specific presenting difficulty or current life challenge that brings the client to therapy. Therapy is aligned to my client's needs which really facilitates strategic and appropriate work done in therapy. This, in turn, significantly enhances the time- and cost-effectiveness of therapy sessions. 

Primary Therapeutic Interventions
Humanistic-Existential Psychotherapy - this is more a description of my approach to therapy rather than a specific intervention I employ. This paradigm allows me to make use of a wide range of different psychological approaches (primarily Jungian Therapy and Ego-state therapy as well as those listed below) to case conceptualization, therapeutic goals and intervention strategies. The basis of the paradigm is an understanding of human experience and a focus on the client rather than the symptom. Psychological problems are viewed as the result of a "blocked" ability to make authentic, meaningful, and self-directed choices about how to live. Consequently, interventions are aimed at increasing client self-awareness, and self-understanding.

Narrative Therapy - Narrative therapy is a collaborative and non-pathologizing approach to counselling that centres people as the experts of their own lives and the therapist as a partner in the therapeutic journey.

EFT, Gottman and Imago Therapy - I use an integrative approach when working with couples, drawing from the Imago, EFT (Emotionally-Focused-Therapy) and Gottman approaches to relationship work.




See Paris First
- M. Truman Cooper
Suppose what you fear
could be trapped
and held in Paris.

Then you would have the courage
to go everywhere in the world.
All the directions of the compass
open to you,
except the degrees east or west
of true north
that lead to Paris.

Still, you wouldn’t dare
to put your toes smack dab
on the city limit line.

And you’re not really willing to stand on a mountainside
miles away
and watch the Paris lights
come up at night.
And just to be on the safe side, you decide to stay completely
out of France.

But then danger
seems too close
even to those boundaries,
and you feel the timid part of you
covering the whole globe again.

You need the kind of friend
who learns your secret and says,
“See Paris first.”

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