My approach

I learned at a young age that we put up psychological barriers to protect ourselves. When we are young and vulnerable, we form protective barriers. These barriers can be thought of as 'spacesuits.' They are both life-sustaining and constraining. My role as a therapist is not to rip off the 'spacesuit.' My job is to respect these barriers and to investigate them with you.

Coming for therapy is a sign that the we are outgrowing this ‘spacesuit’. Also, there is a lot of anxiety in dropping this outgrown spacesuit. In therapy, we investigate when we need to put on these spacesuits and when we can take them off. We will explore how does an improved fitted 'spacesuit', to meet your current requirements, look like.

You must make the decision to change. I offer an opportunity to reconsider these barriers. You must decide whether these barriers still serve a purpose in your adult life. Our therapy session help you to re-negotiate within yourself so that you can live a different life - the life you have always desired.

My philosophy is to tailor the therapy to the needs of my clients; not fitting the client into a fixed psychological theory or framework. I prefer existential approach where we examine your life experience - which is a summation of your thoughts, emotions, decisions and actions (or non-actions). Just like life, we examine the totality of your experience.

I do not teach existentialism during therapy sessions. Existential philosophy is used to guide the therapy process. We examine your life in the context of existentialism - the struggles and fallible nature of human being, the wrestling with freedom, choice, responsibility versus stability, safety and security, and the human condition. You come to your own understanding of yourself life and its struggles.

I use EMDR to process difficult past memories for those who are experiencing physiological difficulties (anxiety or trauma).