“We must learn to let the mute parts of our body speak” D. Whyte

Psychotherapy is a practice; a practice of sitting with your life, of naming and welcoming all the parts of you and your experience. Perhaps at first psychotherapy is primarily a practice of naming together where you have felt pain and shame.

We need others to help us enter into and remain in places of our lives containing deep hurt and shame. With others to help us, we can learn to name these parts of our experience, learn to listen to what these shamed and hurt parts have to tell us and begin to speak in reply. To give voice to harm is to begin to heal.

We begin psychotherapy by noticing; what is happening in your body, feelings and thoughts as we sit together for 50 minutes? Noticing the present leads us into the necessary work of telling the story of how you’ve arrived here. What about the present has echos of the past? What patterns in relationships feel familiar in your story? To connect with what has been is often to connect with grief. Grief work is the story-telling of how pain and shame came to reside in our bodies. Through grief, we create space for us to re-connect with desire. And it is from this re-connection with desire we move into imagination together, to envision what is possible for the future, what your desire is revealing of your longing for your life.