Counselling & Psychotherapy
I offer counselling and psychotherapy for individuals who are struggling with emotional reactivity, recurring patterns, and difficulties in relationships.
This includes concerns such as anger, anxiety, stress, emotional overwhelm, and low frustration tolerance—especially when reactions feel automatic or hard to control.
My approach focuses on helping you understand what is happening in those moments. Rather than only trying to manage or suppress reactions, we look at the underlying emotional patterns and how they have developed over time, particularly in the context of relationships.
At times, we may work with practical strategies to help you respond more effectively in high-intensity situations. At the same time, therapy also involves a deeper process of understanding how your emotional responses, sense of self, and ways of relating have been shaped through experience.
Many of the patterns that create difficulty are not random—they emerge in relationship and tend to repeat in predictable ways. As we begin to recognize these patterns as they occur, including within the therapy itself, new ways of responding and relating can begin to develop.
Over time, this often leads to less reactivity, greater emotional clarity, and a more stable sense of yourself in your relationships and daily life.
Some people come with a specific issue they want to work through, while others are interested in a broader process of change and inquiry. The focus can be adapted based on what you’re looking for.
What is Contemporary Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy?
Contemporary psychoanalytic psychotherapy is an approach that has evolved from the early work of Sigmund Freud and has been shaped by decades of developments in psychology, neuroscience, and relational theory.
At its core, this approach focuses on how our sense of self, emotions, and relationships are formed over time—particularly through early experiences—and how these patterns continue to shape our lives in the present. Rather than focusing only on symptoms or short-term solutions, it offers a space to explore the deeper emotional and relational patterns that underlie our sense of self and our current difficulties.
A central aspect of this work is the therapeutic relationship itself. Therapy becomes a collaborative process in which we make sense of your experience together, paying attention not only to your past, but also to what unfolds in the here-and-now between us. This allows patterns of relating, feeling, and understanding to become more visible and open to change.
Contemporary psychoanalytic psychotherapy is not about being told what is “true” about you. Instead, it emphasizes your unique, subjective experience and supports a deeper understanding of yourself in the context of your life, relationships, and environment.
Over time, this process can lead to meaningful and lasting change—supporting greater self awareness, deeper acceptance of life as it is in the here-and-now, and a stronger sense of connection to yourself and others.
If you're curious about how depth-oriented psychotherapy differs from short-term symptom-focused approaches, these articles offer a helpful introduction: