For some of us, usually early in therapy, therapy is about listening, supporting, and feeling safe. This is especially important when we are facing our difficult histories. As we feel more stable we need help navigating the complications of life and help dealing with the turbulence that arises as we begin to take steps into more unknown territory.

Connecting the internal dots, finding ourselves opening to compassion, often to our own surprise can begin to shift us onto a healing journey.

This is the kind of therapy that is my strength. I've learned, through the process of my own psychological, and spiritual development, that I can't take my clients to places that I haven't been to before.

As a result, I often find my role as a therapist is to be that of a psychological mid-wife. I listen, trying to understand as deeply as I can the situations and patterns that confront you. Then together we craft a journey out of what no longer fits you and find the organic unfolding that leads you to the life you want to live.

Having someone there to listen to us and hear our concerns can be valuable. In therapy that listening invites us to notice, and compassionately witness, the fundamental patterns that have run our lives.

Most of us want to change but find it hard to let go of what is familiar, even if it's uncomfortable.