What is Psychotherapy?

Psychotherapy is a talk therapy for treatment of mental and emotional pain and suffering. It is guided by the principle that dialogue with a skilled practitioner encourages self-awareness, emotion regulation, growth and psychological health.

Verbalising your story in the presence of another human being can be a powerful and transformative encounter.

Psychotherapy is an active, collaborative process that helps you explore your thoughts, feelings, behaviours, and experiences with greater awareness.

Psychotherapy with me aims to be a simultaneously respectful, collaborative, and explorative process where I accompany and support you to process your past and present experiences and live more fully.

Psychotherapy can support you through a range of personal, emotional and relationship challenges. Explore some of the common presenting issues below.

    • Abuse

    • Addiction

    • ADHD

    • Anxiety and worry

    • Autism

    • Childless not by choice

    • Depression

    • Eating and body issues

    • Emotional distress

    • Emotional regulation

    • Estrangement

    • Fear or phobia

    • Feeling numb

    • Gambling

    • Grief and loss

    • Immigration and cultural adjustments

    • Loneliness

    • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

    • Panic attacks

    • Parenting

    • Perfectionism

    • Postnatal depression and anxiety

    • Purpose and meaning

    • Relationship issues

    • Self-esteem and self-worth

    • Sex

    • Sexuality

    • Social anxiety

    • Spirituality

    • Stress

    • Suicidal ideation

    • Transitions

    • Trauma

    • Work related issues

How does psychotherapy work?

A key part of the process is the therapeutic relationship. A psychotherapist is not a friend, colleague, or family member. A trained therapist provides a safe, respectful and non-judgemental space to explore your inner world.

Together, we may explore:

  • What is happening now?

    Slowing things down can help you organise your thoughts, recognise your emotions, and notice habitual responses.

  • What's happening beneath the surface?

    Psychotherapy can bring unconscious patterns, beliefs and adaptations into conscious awareness so they can be understood and explored.

  • How your past may be shaping your present

    Past experiences can influence how we relate to ourselves and others. Psychotherapy provides space to process these experiences and reconsider beliefs and patterns that may no longer serve you.

  • New ways of experiencing yourself and others

    Through reflection, emotional processing and practical therapeutic tools, you can develop greater choice, resilience and more fulfilling ways of relating.

How can psychotherapy help?

Psychotherapy considers you as a whole person, including your body, feelings, mind and relationships. Every person's experience is different, but psychotherapy may support you to:

  • Understand yourself more deeply

  • Process difficult or traumatic experiences

  • Change unhelpful relationship patterns

  • Develop confidence and agency

  • Feel more regulated and develop nervous system flexibility

  • Build resilience and capacity to cope

  • Reconnect with yourself, your values, and your interests

  • Create more fulfilling ways of being

Your willingness to engage with the process and practice what you discover is an important part of meaningful and lasting change.

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