Individual Session

A collaborative one-on-one process to explore emotional distress, identity, relationships, and life challenges while making connections between personal struggles and the broader systems that shape them.

Individual therapy involves more than active listening - it is a process of personal reflection that will both support you to feel safe to explore and unpack painful experiences in your life, and it will also challenge you in areas where you feel stuck, and where you may be engaging in harmful patterns of behaviour (to yourself and others).  With a focus on parts work, individual therapy will invite you to become curious about all the parts of your psyche, both conscious and unconscious, that are working behind the scenes motivating your behaviour, your thoughts and your feelings. 

People come to individual therapy for many reasons, all of which are valid and welcome. I have particular experience helping clients make sense of their gender and sexuality, including working through their experience of homophobia and transphobia. I also work with clients seeking to understand their patterns of attachment in relationships with others, as well as working through difficult childhoods and family dynamics. Many clients struggle with depression, anxiety, and existential questions of meaning and identity.  A therapy teacher of mine once taught that therapy isn’t about feeling better, it’s about getting better at feeling, and this has profoundly shaped the way I practice therapy ever since.