What kind of therapy do I offer?

Existential therapy helps you explore what it means to live a life that feels true to you. It looks at meaning, choice, responsibility, relationships, and how you meet the realities of being human. Within this, existential analysis offers a more structured way of looking at your inner consent, your values, and the ways you relate to yourself and others. This approach isn’t about diagnosing or fixing you. It’s about understanding what’s happening beneath the surface and strengthening your ability to choose freely and live with intention.

Existential analysis often includes questions like:
What do you actually want?
What feels right for you, not for others?
Where do you feel pulled, conflicted, or disconnected?

Together we slow down, turn inward, and make space for honesty, clarity, and meaning so you can live in a way that aligns with who you truly are. This work tends to be reflective, relational, and grounded in curiosity about your lived experience.

Dream work invites you to explore the symbolic language of your dreams and the unconscious patterns they reveal. We look at images, themes, and emotions to understand what your inner world may be trying to express. Jungian-oriented work often involves archetypes, personal myths, and looking at how your dreams interact with your daily life. It’s not about “correct” interpretations, but about finding meaning that resonates with you.

Narrative therapy helps you examine the stories you’ve been living by.  These stories are shaped by family, culture, trauma, and past experiences. Together we look at the narratives that limit you and open space for new understandings of who you are. This approach sees you as separate from your problems and highlights your strengths, values, and preferred direction in life.

Psychodynamic therapy explores how past experiences and unconscious patterns influence the way you feel, react, and relate today. It’s about understanding your emotional world more deeply, especially patterns that keep repeating. This work helps bring clarity, insight, and choice to areas that may feel stuck or confusing.

Using Gottman Method principles, couples therapy focuses on strengthening connection, communication, and emotional safety. We look at patterns between you and your partner, build practical skills, and work toward reducing conflict and increasing closeness. This approach is structured, supportive, and grounded in decades of relationship research.

To be clear about my scope and style, there are several approaches I don’t use as therapeutic frameworks. I don’t provide CBT or DBT as full structured treatments. While I may draw on the occasional skill when it’s genuinely useful—such as a basic distress tolerance strategy—I don’t work from these models as the foundation of therapy.

I also don’t offer substance-use counselling, sex therapy, or child therapy. These areas require a dedicated, specialized approach, and they fall outside of my practice. If you’re looking for support in any of these specialties, I’m always happy to help connect you with a practitioner whose work aligns with what you need.