One of the book's most compelling themes is that meaning cannot simply be adopted from someone else's life. Advice, traditions, and beliefs may all be valuable, but eventually each of us must discover what genuinely carries significance within our own experience.

Knowing how to find the right therapist can feel confusing, especially if you are new to therapy. Beginning therapy can feel like a significant step. For many people, the difficulty is not only in deciding to seek support, but in knowing how to find the right therapist in the first place. There are many different approaches, titles, and ways of working. It is not always obvious what the differences are, or what might suit you. If you are still at the stage of wondering whethe

A distinctive aspect of art psychotherapy is the use of materials such as drawing, painting, or collage. These offer another way of expressing and exploring experience, particularly where words feel limited or too direct. The process is not about producing a finished piece of art, and there is no expectation of skill or technique. The focus is on the act of making, and on what may begin to emerge through it.

Rather than focusing solely on symptom reduction or practical solutions, psychotherapy sessions with me offer a space in which thoughts, feelings, images, and patterns can be explored over time. It is a way of working that values reflection, imagination, and the gradual unfolding of meaning.

The fact that you know I am here to accept you just as you are, and listen carefully to whatever you tell me, doesn't mean I expect talking about your life to feel easy. It is usually not the case that a person in therapy feels they can simply 'tell me anything' at the beginning, in fact it is often not advisable to dive in too quickly. If something is difficult to talk about, we might turn our attention from the 'thing' or 'subject' you are trying to describe, towards why it

A personal reflection on how astrology and depth psychology meet within the shared language of symbolism, offering new ways to understand psyche, relationship, and meaning.

Last week I visited the west country, during a spell of unusually prolonged warm and sunny weather for the British Isles during spring. This journey was not planned as a guide, but as an encounter with the mythic and magical in Devon and Cornwall, following a sense of place rather than a fixed route. Entering the Landscape - The Power Of Dartmoor The granite Tors of Dartmoor. I found these places profoundly strange and powerful, with the unusual forms of rock that occupy the

The condition of this book tells a story, it has lived a life. A sign of its importance to me during the past decade, and no doubt beyond. In Crossing the Unknown Sea, David Whyte is drawing us towards a deeper and lasting shift in how we attend to our inner world of desires and dreams for a life well-lived, face the world and its demands, and truly engage in the conversational nature of reality. Pretending To Be Alive We may do the same work and do it well, but we may do it

There are certain books that feel less like something to be read from beginning to end, and more like something to return to, to open at any page and enter a particular world. Alchemy & Mysticism is one of those. I have returned to this Taschen volume many times. Each encounter offers something slightly different, not only in what is seen, but in how the images seem to work upon the imagination. The Opus as Image What strikes me most in these pages is that even where the mate

There are times in life when the sense of direction we once had begins to falter. What once felt clear may no longer feel like our own, and the question of how to move forward becomes less certain. At these points, it is not always a lack of options that troubles us, but a deeper uncertainty about which path, if any, truly belongs to us. Traveller there is no path. The path is made by walking. These lines from a poem by Antonio Machado are often encountered at moments when we

The First Encounter I discovered the work of Carl Jung during my mid-to-late teens, when I plucked this text from a shelf in a local bookshop. Having no idea at the time who this man was, or about psychoanalysis, I imagine I was attracted by the title. A Timely Passage in a Culture of Speed I find the following passage especially fascinating today, in a world where we are so often required to ‘know’ quickly. Alluding to a way of working that seeks not to impinge upon the...

Cecil Collins is an artist I have a great appreciation for. This book documents the thoughts and reflections of many of those who knew him, whether as a collector, curator, student of his unique teaching methods, or through other connections. Collins’ work carries a particular quality that is difficult to define, yet unmistakable when encountered. It speaks from a place that feels both ancient and immediate, personal and universal. Images arise from the fountainhead of human