A short, honest description of the areas people most often bring. Therapy with me is not promised as a cure — it is offered as a serious, considered place to look at what is happening.
Anxiety can have many shapes — racing thoughts, a felt sense of dread, avoidance, sleep that will not settle, or a quiet, constant alertness. Social anxiety can make ordinary contact with other people feel costly. Therapy is a place to slow down and look at what your anxiety is protecting and pointing toward.
Depression is not only sadness. It can show up as flatness, irritability, loss of meaning, or a feeling that life has gone quiet. We work to understand what your low mood is responding to, and what is being held under it.
For people carrying a lot at work — pace, responsibility, visibility, complex relationships — therapy can be a place to think honestly about what the work is costing you, and what is keeping you in patterns that no longer serve you.
I have a particular interest in working with men. Many men arrive in therapy without much practice in noticing or naming inner experience. The work is not to be made into someone else, but to find a fuller, more honest relationship with yourself.
Early separation and institutional life leave their marks. People who attended boarding school sometimes carry patterns of self-reliance, emotional distance, or strain in close relationships that are worth understanding in their own right.
Endings, beginnings, bereavement, parenthood, separation, retirement, illness — and the quieter losses that come with each. Therapy offers a place to grieve what needs grieving and to make room for what is next.
Recurring conflicts, distance, ambivalence, and the way old family dynamics show up in adult life. We look at the patterns you find yourself in, and at what becomes possible when they are understood.
When the inner relationship with yourself is harsher, smaller, or more fragile than your outside life suggests, therapy can be a place to look at how that relationship was formed — and to begin to change it.