Psychotherapy
Imaginal Therapist
A sense of failure or feeling lost at certain stages in our lives is what brings most of us into therapy.
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Influxes of depression, panic, addictive behaviour, divorce, death, illness, betrayal or loss.
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Where to from here, and how to navigate the accompanying emotions.
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"Imaginal thinking clears the blocked channels of energy that flow between creatures and things. In certain parts of the world when people feel creativity is blocked - when a conversation doesn't go anywhere or when an animal cannot give birth - they will say "the goddess sits before the door with her arms and legs crossed, we must change her attitude". Her crossed limbs bind up the life force the way a restricted imagination cripples the psyche, leaving little energy available for ripening one's world in Rilke's sense" writes Nor Hall in The Moon and The Virgin
About Me
I've been curious about the mysteries of life since I was little. Growing up in a complex family gave me insights into the many and varied wounds we carry around with us. This nurtured in me a love and curiosity about our fragile yet strangely robust human condition - what we long for and how often we feel at the mercy of the emotions that run through our lives.
My own dark night of the soul is what lead me out of a dense forest and into a clearing. Here, my understanding of therapy was shaped through the guidance of my teachers as I slowly came to realise that not much had changed in my life other than my attitude towards it.
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I also feel that the environment in which we live is just as important as the treatment we choose. Through working with people over many years I've felt how music, theatre, gardening, decorating, working, cooking, surfing, art, animals can all be forms of therapy. Being in the world is therapy for a soul so within itself, it forgets to look up and around, offering something out.
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To discover what we can offer out into the world we need to find what is inside, longing to be revealed. Therapy is discovering what that is.
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What brings us into therapy:
Panic & Anxiety
Couples Therapy
Depression
Illness, Trauma and Loss
Relationships
Addictions
There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.