Many people seek therapy when life feels heavy, confusing, or out of balance. You may have tried other approaches yet still felt unseen or unchanged. My humanistic counselling, grounded in existential and phenomenological philosophy, offers a space where your lived experience is met with depth, care, and genuine presence.

My practice is grounded in advanced therapeutic training, personal development, and ongoing academic research, helping us explore your experience with nuance, curiosity, and respect.

What makes this different?

It starts with your whole self.

I see you not as a problem or diagnosis, but as a whole person with strengths, hopes, fears, and capacity to grow. You are more than what has happened to you.

It honours your experience.

Phenomenological therapy explores life from your perspective, focusing on the emotions, sensations, memories, and meanings that shape your inner world.

It makes space for big questions.

Existential therapy recognises that struggles often arise from identity, freedom, responsibility, uncertainty, relationships, ageing, loss, and meaning. It sees suffering not only as a “problem to fix,” but as part of being human and pointing to what matters.

My academic work explores these themes, grounding me in understanding of what you may be moving through.

Existential thinking draws on the philosophy of what it means to be human: how we inhabit the world, experience life through the body, and face uncertainty, anxiety, suffering, freedom, and responsibility.

In therapy, these ideas help us explore self-deception, adaptation, avoidance, and the ways we distance ourselves from who we are. A key question becomes: where have you had to adapt, hide, or become someone other than yourself?

How this helps you

You may feel understood rather than assessed.

This approach meets you at your pace, in your language and emotional landscape. You won’t be rushed or judged. You hear yourself. I hear you.

You may gain clarity about what’s happening inside.

By exploring your experience gently and closely, you begin to understand why certain patterns repeat or why certain feelings feel overwhelming. Insight emerges slowly and naturally.  You notice.  I notice.

You may develop a stronger sense of self.

The work helps you reconnect with your values, boundaries, desires, and agency. You begin to feel more grounded and more able to make choices that align with who you are. You start to choose differently.

You will experience really relational support.

This therapy is deeply relational. Change happens through the quality of the therapeutic relationship — a space where you can be met with empathy, honesty, and attuned presence and sometimes challenge.

You may make meaning of your experiences.

Phenomenological exploration helps you understand not just what you feel, but why it matters. You begin to see your life with more coherence, compassion, and possibility.

Who this approach is for

People often choose this therapy when they:

• feel lost, stuck, or disconnected.
• are navigating transitions or identity shifts.
• want deeper understanding rather than quick fixes.
• have tried therapies that felt too structured, directed or impersonal.
• want philosophical insight and discussion that is deep rather than surface level.
• Want to move inwards and not merely forward with change.
• sense that their struggles are tied to relationships, meaning, or self‑worth.
• want a therapeutic relationship that feels real, warm, and human.

What sessions feel like?

Sessions are calm, spacious, and collaborative. You bring whatever feels important — a feeling, a memory, a situation, a question — and we explore it together.

You can expect:

• warmth and genuine presence
• curiosity rather than judgement
• space to slow down and breathe.
• careful listening to what matters beneath the surface.
• careful listening to the embodied self, what the body is telling you how you experience the world.
• support in making sense of your experience.
• a relationship built on trust, respect, and authenticity.

My research informs this process by helping us notice the subtle shifts, themes, and meanings that often shape a person’s inner world. It adds depth without ever taking over the session.

Why it works.

This therapy works because it aligns with how humans actually exist: adapted, defended and at odds with the inherited world.  When you feel seen, safe, and supported, new possibilities open.

If you’re ready for therapy that feels human, grounded, and deeply supportive.

You are welcome to reach out. We can explore what you are carrying, what you’re longing for, and what might help you move forward with more steadiness and meaning.