My approach to psychotherapy draws upon the philosophy of existential thinkers such as Kierkegaard and Jaspers and utilises a methodology drawn from the phenomenology of authors such as Husserl, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty.

In times of difficulty, stress, distress, psychological or emotional concerns, this approach to therapy aims to provide a safe, secure environment in which to consider life’s difficulties and to recover or re-discover a sense of meaning and purpose.

Therapy begins as an inquiry into the breadth of a client’s experience of themselves, of others and of the world or worlds in which they live by inquiring into the values, attitudes, assumptions and beliefs to which a person adheres to subscribes.

This helps in seeking to develop an understanding into the ‘stuck-ness’ or problems being experienced from the position of the client, with a view to becoming more aware of how difficulties occur.

In the therapeutic space we then consider this awareness as a way of being more able to recognise the position or positions that the person might find themselves in or be stuck with.

When understanding these positions this therapy does not suggest that there is a right or wrong way to be or to choose but rather promotes agency and choice through understanding. By being able to take ownership of one’s difficulties the client becomes open to the possibilities of making choices.

With choice comes freedom or with freedom comes choice and the opportunity to find new or renewed engagement with life in a less stressful, distressing or disturbing manner, as well as the revival of hope and the possibility of construing new meaning or renewed purpose.