Individual Therapy

Icon for Individual Therapy where work is focussed on helping to improve relationships

    • You need support with your friendships, romantic life, family, parenting, work.

    • You love your life partner, but you’re stuck in repetitive arguments that get swept under the rug.

    • You keep things to yourself, even though you want to trust more.

    • You want to be more assertive at work, but feel terrified. You hate that you can’t say ‘no’.

    • You want to end a friendship that no longer serves you but feel guilty about it.

    • You’re dealing with harmful management at work.

    • You’re in a confusing relationship that leaves you second-guessing yourself.

    • You become uncontactable when you’re down, frustrating your loved ones.

    • You want a life partner but struggle with dating.

    • You’ve changed, but your relationships haven’t evolved with you.

    • You want more emotional intimacy with your friends but don’t know how.

    • You’re terrified of being vulnerable.

    Relevant terms: assertiveness; assertive communication;  boundaries; bids for connection; repair ruptures; negotiating differences; conflict resolution; depression; loneliness; fear of vulnerability; workplace bullying; toxic management

Icon for Individual Therapy where work is focussed on helping to heal relational trauma

    • You want to move forward in life, but the pain of your unresolved relational wounds sits so deeply within you that it affects your mood, relationships, and self-perception.

    • These wounds were inflicted by significant figures in your life, such as parents or relatives during childhood; school mates and teachers who humiliated you; a harmful manager who destroyed your confidence; or friends and romantic partners who clouded your sense of reality.

    • You seek healing for these wounded parts, to find meaning, let go, and feel less trapped and burdened.

    • You desire joy and connection, to find like-minded people in this world who will help restore your confidence in yourself and in others, and to feel less scared.

    • You want to change the template of the world that you’ve inherited from these experiences.

    Relevant terms: relational wounds; complex trauma; attachment styles; early life experiences; post-traumatic stress disorder; family trauma; early childhood experiences; early childhood trauma; adverse childhood events; workplace injury

Icon for Individual Therapy where work is focussed on helping to improve anxiety

    • You seek more inner peace and to exist less in your thoughts.

    • You often experience a constant internal monologue, debating all sides and worrying about scenarios; trapped in uncertainty, indecision, and anxiety.

    • You want to speak confidently without cringing over past interactions.

    • You want to know your boundaries and rights, to feel less guilty, ‘bad’, and self-critical.

    • You always try to do the right thing and want others to see you as strong and competent.

    • You wish to stop worrying so often about others judging you negatively.

    • You find yourself lacking patience and constantly trying to keep busy, and want to enjoy your company more.

    • You notice you can obsess over making yourself and your work perfect or "just right", and feel unhappy in the process.

    • You’re feeling burnt out and you know something’s just not working in your life.

    Relevant terms: perfectionism; rumination; unrelenting standards; self-criticism; rejection sensitivity; self-worth; comparisonitis; anxiety; emotional avoidance; obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD); distraction coping; hustle culture; confidence

Icon for Individual Therapy where work is focussed on helping to improve personal growth

    • You feel generally ok, but you crave more meaning.

    • While you value productivity, the joy of your achievements is fleeting, and you question your purpose.

    • You want to explore existential ideas such as the meaning of life, but feel you can’t in your current social circles.

    • Though you have always solved problems on your own, some issues keep recurring.

    • You seek someone to help you overcome your blindspots and personal limitations, to provide you with further insight and clarity.

    • You want to be more in touch with your feelings, and be driven by excitement rather than fear.

    • You want to increase self-expression and creativity, and confidently take up space in the world.

    Relevant terms: authenticity; daring greatly; value driven; find your why; purpose; state of flow; shadow work; comfort zone; personal development; self-actualisation; confidence; contentment

Icon for Individual Therapy where work is focussed on helping to navigate cross cultural differences

    • Despite being a competent worker, you’re told or you feel you’re not 'assertive and confident' enough, leading to a lack of deserved recognition.

    • You argue with your parents over conflicting values and misunderstandings, and your values also clash with people you’ve known since childhood, making you worry about losing these relationships.

    • You hide parts of yourself depending on which social circle you are in, as you fear rejection.

    • You feel guilt often and that leads to self-silencing and associated indecisions or emotional turbulence.

    • You want to give yourself permission to feel your feelings, and do things differently to how they’ve always been done in your family.

    • You want to understand your heritage, hold the tension between different sides of you, harmonise your cultures, and define your identity.

    Relevant terms: intergenerational trauma; generational gap; cross-cultural issues; culture clash; cultural divide; cultural heritage; identity crisis; immigrant culture

Icon for Individual Therapy where work is focussed on helping to heal ambiguous losses or grief through life transitions

    • You experience profound sadness from losing something meaningful that you can't yet articulate.

    • Through migration, you've lost community, social structure, and identity.

    • You feel grief over changes in your relationships, like friendships that have grown apart with distance, break ups or the shifting dynamics with your aging parents.

    • These losses may not be well understood by others or by the majority culture you're in, making you feel like you no longer quite belong anywhere.

    • You’re navigating some major life transitions like career change, and you need help with managing the stress.

    Relevant terms: minority stress; ambiguous loss; unresolved grief; unmetabolised loss; third culture kid; cultural bereavement; cultural identity; major life events; life transitions; significant life decisions; loss of cultural and social capital; sense of belonging