Depth Relational Therapy

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It only doesn’t change if we refuse to look at it. But when we look at it, when we take it in our hands, when we can just be with it and keep breathing, then it turns. It turns to reveal its other face and the other face of our pain… is our love… our absolutely inseparable connectedness with all life.

— Joanna Macy

Disconnection from self, others, and life itself can manifest in a myriad of painful ways:

A sense of emptiness and stuckness. A perpetual underlying fear. Criticism and shame, looming over the shoulder. Feeling fragmented and conflicted. Strained relationship with sources of pleasure. Unsatisfying or hurtful relationships. Deep longings for love, seenness, expansion, coherence, and meaning that feel more like burdens. A sense of an overwhelming disparateness of the world.

These symptoms are not errors. They are calling for your attention. Calling you home.

When we truly pay attention, things start to shift.

Together, we will listen deeply to what is true for you. We will follow the thread of your symptoms and difficulties back to their origins – the existential sense — and further to what they lead towards. Because the question is not only 'why?', but 'what for?'. The future, as much as the present and the past. Soul-making, rather than wound-treatment.

Approach

The therapeutic container is what allows us to safely go deep into the muck and the light within. To explore, illuminate, and let things shift and transform. It is where I hold you and the process with deep attunement, fierce compassion, honesty, and humour.

While rooted in relational psychodynamics, the attachment-based approach, and depth psychological perspectives, I draw from different modalities to meet your needs at a particular point in time.

We will focus on exploring and shifting the patterns and perceptions through:

exploring past experiences, particularly early attachments and significant events
staying with the arising bodily sensations, mental imagery, metaphors, and dreams
using processing and reparative techniques, such as EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, image re-scripting, IFS/parts work, nervous system regulation, and compassion
bringing awareness to how we relate to each other and how this may represent relational patterns in your life.
using the therapeutic space as an opportunity to test new ways of relating and expressing yourself

Areas of Focus

Developmental / Attachment Trauma
Abandonment & Engulfment Wounds
Relational Difficulties
Sex & Intimacy
Depression
Anxiety & Fear
Stress
Binge Eating
High Sensitivity & Intensity (HSP)
Loss & Grief

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Death & Dying
Life Transitions
Psychedelic Integration (& integration of other non-ordinary states of consciousness)
Spirituality
Relationship with Femininity & Masculinity as Psychic Poles
Existential Anxiety & Crisis
Self-Actualisation

I welcome diverse forms of relating and sexuality, including LGBTQ+, ethical non-monogamy (ENM)/polyamory, and kink.

I also offer therapy in Russian and Ukrainian.

Work with Me

I offer weekly therapy sessions, EMDR, and psychedelic integration in East London and online across the UK & worldwide.

For details and bookings

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