The Work
What actually happens in the room?
You arrive. You sit down. And for fifty minutes, nobody needs anything from you. That is where it starts.
How sessions run
Unhurried, relational, real.
We meet weekly, in person in East London. There's no agenda you have to prepare and no homework you'll be marked on. You bring what's alive: a decision, a dream, a flat Tuesday, a sentence someone said that you can't stop turning over.
I listen closely, to the words, to what sits underneath them, and to what your body is doing while you speak. Sometimes we talk. Sometimes we use imagery, or give a part of you its own voice. Always, the relationship between us is part of the work. It is human, not a technique applied to you.
Psychosynthesis in plain English
A psychology with room for soul.
Psychosynthesis was founded in 1911 by the Italian psychiatrist Roberto Assagioli, a contemporary of Freud and Jung. Where much of psychology asks what went wrong, Assagioli asked a further question: what is trying to grow? His answer was a psychology that includes soul and purpose as well as the past.
A few words you might hear, in ordinary language:
- Subpersonalities
- The different parts of you, such as the achiever, the pleaser or the critic, each with its own voice and its own idea of what keeps you safe.
- Disidentification
- Stepping back far enough from a feeling, thought or role to notice: I have this, but I am more than this.
- The "I"
- The steady centre in you that can observe all those parts, and choose.
- The Self
- The deeper source of meaning and direction in a life: what you might call your purpose, or the part of you that keeps asking the question.
Past and emerging
Where you've come from. Where you're heading.
Your history matters. The patterns you learned, the roles that served you, the voice that still says "not yet, not good enough": we'll meet them with respect. They got you here.
But we won't stop there. The emphasis of this work is on direction: what is emerging, what you value, and what you will actually do next. Insight, then choice, then action.
A quiet room
Somewhere to stand at the threshold.
Times of change are disorientating. The old shape of your life no longer fits and the new one hasn't arrived yet. Most of us try to rush through that doorway. Therapy offers a safe, unhurried space in which to pause on the threshold and look honestly, without performing, without deciding too soon.
Psychospiritual
Spiritual, in the broad sense.
By spiritual I mean values, meaning and what matters most to you. The questions underneath the questions. No religion required, no belief system assumed. If you have a faith, you're welcome to bring it. If you have none, you're equally welcome. All you need is a willingness to be curious about your own life.