What working together looks like
The first step is usually a brief initial conversation.
This is a chance for you to say what has brought you to therapy and for us both to get a sense of whether working together feels like a good fit.
Fit matters. Not every therapeutic relationship is the right one, and part of the work is simply noticing whether there is enough ease, clarity, and trust to begin.
The first sessions
Early sessions are about getting a sense of what you’re carrying and how you’ve been trying to manage it.
We don’t need to arrive anywhere quickly.
It’s often more useful to slow things down — to begin noticing patterns, themes, and the ways certain experiences organise themselves in your life.
Over time, a clearer picture usually begins to form, but it rarely starts there.
The ongoing work
As therapy develops, we begin to pay closer attention to the patterns that repeat — in relationships, in thinking, in emotional responses, and in how you relate to yourself.
Some of this may already be familiar to you on an intellectual level. The work often involves getting closer to what it actually feels like, rather than just what it means.
There is no fixed agenda beyond this. The work follows what becomes important in the room.
A note on pace
Therapy is not linear.
There may be periods where things feel clearer and more connected, and periods where things feel uncertain or even stuck.
This is not a failure of the process — it is often part of how deeper patterns begin to loosen.
We work at a pace that allows experience to be integrated rather than overwhelmed.
Ending therapy
Therapy doesn’t have to be open-ended.
When the time comes to end, we can think about that together in a way that feels considered rather than abrupt.