How I work

My approach

Therapy with me usually begins by slowing down enough to understand what is happening now. What brought you here, what has been hurting or repeating, what you have already tried, and what you hope may become different.

I do not expect you to arrive with a perfectly named problem. Some people come with a clear focus. Others come with a sense that something is too much, too numb, too familiar, or no longer possible to carry in the same way. We can start there.

As the work develops, we pay attention to patterns: how you relate to others, how you protect yourself, what your body seems to remember, what emotions become hard to feel, and what parts of you had to adapt in order to get through.

Focused & flexible

We name what you want the therapy to help with and keep checking whether the work is useful. The focus matters, but it can also change as we understand more. Sometimes the first problem is only the doorway into the real one.

Psychodynamic & integrative

My thinking is mainly psychodynamic: I am interested in patterns, defences, attachment, early experiences, unconscious meanings, and what happens between us in the therapeutic relationship. I also draw from trauma-sensitive practice, EMDR, emotional regulation work, and current professional knowledge when they are relevant.

Working with intensity

Some things cannot be understood properly while you are flooded, shut down, or trying to push through. When needed, we slow down and work with regulation, grounding, pacing, and the body, so that difficult material can become possible to approach.

Affirming & nuanced

Identity, culture, sexuality, gender, neurodivergence, migration, class, family systems, and social context can all shape psychic life. I will not treat these parts of you as side notes. I will also not reduce everything to identity, because people are more complicated than any single lens.