Why might making an image have a place in psychotherapy? This article explores images as forms of psychological life, their ancient human history, and their role within therapeutic work.

Art Psychotherapy brings conversation and image-making together, but using art in sessions with me is always optional. This article explores what happens during a session, how images are approached, and why no artistic skill is required.

Depth psychotherapy explores the deeper and often unconscious dimensions of experience. This article considers how it works, what sessions may involve, and who might be drawn to this reflective approach.

What does it mean to play in psychotherapy? And what does it mean to become, especially in adolescence? Two books that have shaped my clinical thinking in profound ways are D.W. Winnicott’s Playing and Reality and Richard Frankel’s The Adolescent Psyche. Though written in different contexts, both works invite us to reconsider how we understand psychological growth, creativity, and transformation. At their heart is a shared concern with something alive in the psyche: the space

Beginning therapy can bring uncertainty alongside hope, curiosity, or apprehension. This article considers familiar concerns such as not knowing what to say, fearing judgement, and wondering what therapy may offer.

If explanation is the self-cure for curiosity, we have a lot of explaining to stop doing; if desire is the refuge from wide-angled attention, we have a lot of wanting to relinquish. In Attention Seeking, Adam Phillips offers a way of thinking about attention that moves beyond the obvious. Attention is something we give and receive, and is in turns needed, wanted, and feared in its various forms. In psychotherapy, we notice that a symptom, or a state of mind, is something that