Imagination, Nature & the Inner Life
This page offers a sense of the wider landscape that informs my work.
If you are looking for information about therapy sessions (including fees, or how to begin), you can find this on my psychotherapy welcome page, or read more about the therapeutic process and relationship elsewhere on the site.
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Alongside my clinical training and professional experience, my work is shaped by a longstanding engagement with imagination, creativity, nature, and questions of meaning. These are not separate from psychotherapy, but part of the way I listen, reflect, and work with others.
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They offer a broader context for understanding how inner life can be experienced, explored, and articulated. Sometimes through words, and sometimes through images, memories, or a sense of connection to the wider world.
Imagination and image​
Imagination is not simply a form of fantasy, but a way in which experience takes shape. Thoughts, memories, dreams, and images can all carry meaning, even when they are not immediately clear or easy to explain.
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As a practising artist, this is something I continue to explore in my own work. You can view a selection of my paintings on my artwork page.
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In therapy, we may take time to reflect on what emerges in this way, whether through conversation or image-making, allowing space for associations, feelings, and insights to unfold gradually. You can read more about how this is approached in practice on my art psychotherapy page.
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If you are interested in exploring this further, I have written about imagination in more depth on my blog, including reflections on the work of James Hillman, Gary Lachman and Patrick Harpur, who approach imagination as something more than fantasy or invention.
Nature and the wider world
Our inner lives do not exist in isolation. Experiences of place, landscape, and the natural world can have a subtle but significant influence on how we feel and understand ourselves.
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For some people, a sense of connection to nature can provide grounding, perspective, or a different way of relating to difficulty. For others, it may emerge more indirectly, through memory, imagination, or a sense of atmosphere.
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I explore these themes in my writing, which you can find on the blog.
Spirituality and meaning
Questions of meaning, purpose, and connection to something beyond the individual self can be an important part of psychological life. This might be understood in spiritual terms, or simply as a sense that experience has depth and significance beyond what can be easily explained.
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In therapy, there is space for these questions where they are relevant, without the need to define them in a particular way. The focus remains on your own experience, and what feels meaningful or true for you.
These perspectives are not separate from therapy, but part of the way I approach the work. You can read more about this on my depth psychology page, or explore the therapeutic process and relationship in more detail.