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I believe many people spend their lives performing, surviving, striving, or adapting themselves to meet other people’s expectations. Counselling offers a space to step outside of that pressure and ask more honest questions:
What do I want? What do I need? Is that deep-held belief about myself actually true?
I am a counsellor who helps people slow down enough to hear themselves clearly.
Personal Touch
I don't believe meaningful change begins with self-criticism.
I believe people change when they feel safe enough to stop performing and start listening to themselves more honestly.
For many of my clients, one of the first signs of growth is not becoming calmer or happier - it's becoming more able to disagree, challenge, or speak openly. I love it when a client says: "No, that's not quite right."
That tells me they are beginning to trust themselves.
I believe that acceptance is foundational. Many people grow up learning that love, safety, or belonging depend on becoming someone else. Counselling can offer a different experience: being accepted as you are, without needing to earn it first.
Client Focus
I work particularly well with people who are trying to reconnect with themselves.
Often these are people who have spent years:
- striving and achieving without feeling fulfilled
- adapting themselves to meet others' expectations, perhaps as part of the LGBTQ+ community
- surviving difficult childhoods, relationships, or environments
- finishing education
- reaching long-held goals and wondering "what now?"
- recovering from emotionally difficult relationships
- beginning to question the roles they've always played
Background
Therapy Approach
I hope you will leave counselling with a kinder relationship to yourself.
Not necessarily with all the answers, but with a greater ability to notice when you are being harsh, dismissive, or unkind to yourself - and to pause long enough to ask:
What do I want? What do I need?
Therapy explained
Person-Centered Therapy
Person-Centered Therapy uses a non-authoritative approach that allows clients to take more of a lead in discussions so that, in the process, they will discover their own solutions.
