When your head won't switch off
The replaying. The rehearsing. The endless inner commentary.
If your mind is constantly running — conversations on the drive home, tomorrow’s meeting at midnight, worst-case scenarios you know are unlikely but can’t stop building — we’d start by slowing that loop down. Not by arguing with it, but by understanding what it’s protecting.
A lot of overthinking is anxiety doing its job too well. We’d look at the thoughts themselves: where they come from, what they assume, what happens when you follow them versus when you don’t. You’d leave sessions with a clearer sense of which thoughts are worth listening to — and which ones are just noise.
draws on CBT · thought pattern work · behavioural experiments
When you can't stop running through tomorrow
The 4am window. Wide awake, running the same calculations.
Waking at 4am isn’t just a sleep problem — it’s usually the place where everything you’ve managed to push down during the day resurfaces with nowhere to go. What you’re carrying is real. The middle of the night just strips away the distractions.
We’d work on what’s underneath that: the low-grade tension you carry through the day, the things you haven’t said, the pressure you’re absorbing without naming it. Sometimes the goal isn’t to sleep better — it’s to carry less so that sleep stops being the only place the weight shows up.
draws on PCT · emotional safety · body awareness
When you sit down at the end of the day and feel nothing
Not sad, not fine. Just blank.
A lot of people arrive at therapy not in crisis — just quietly running on empty. You’ve been functioning. You’ve been managing. But somewhere along the way you lost the thread back to what you actually feel.
This is often where the most important work happens. We’d slow things down — slower than you can think — and create enough space for what’s been pushed aside to surface. Not dramatically. Often quietly. The goal isn’t to manufacture feeling; it’s to stop suppressing it so automatically. Most people find that the capacity was always there. It just needed somewhere safe to land.
draws on PCT · emotional release · relational depth work
The relationship between us
You don't need to perform being okay in here.
Most of my clients are articulate, self-aware, and very good at explaining their problems without actually feeling them. That’s not a criticism — it’s a skill. But it’s also what keeps people stuck.
I won’t interpret you or tell you what things mean. I’ll be present, honest, and genuinely curious about you. The relationship itself — the fact that you can show up as you are and be met without judgment — is part of what makes the work work.
The approaches I draw from
Person-Centred Therapy (PCT)
A humanistic approach that trusts your capacity for growth. You set the pace. The relationship is the container — non-directive, non-judgmental, and genuinely warm.
Letting go & emotional release
A guided process for acknowledging and releasing stored emotion — particularly useful when you've understood something intellectually but it hasn't moved yet.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
A practical approach for understanding how thoughts, feelings, and behaviours connect. Useful when you want to work with specific patterns and leave sessions with something concrete.
In practice
These aren't separate offerings. Most sessions blend more than one. I follow what's alive in the room — not a predetermined structure.
If any of this...
resonates or sounds familiar, a 15-minute consultation is a good place to start.