Deeply suspicious of easy answers?
Strange times
call for strange therapy.
Existential and relational psychotherapy for people tired of being managed and ready to seek meaning.
WHO THIS IS FOR
You've done the work.
Something is still missing.
You know how to hold it together. What you’re less sure about is what you’re holding it together for. Some of what brings people here isn’t personal. The systems we move through have real weight — and you’re tired of being told otherwise.
WHAT WE DO HERE
A liminal approach for liminal times.
In existential psychotherapy, we start with a different premise: anxiety, dread, and the sense that something is fundamentally unresolved aren’t malfunctions – they’re an honest encounter with what it costs to be alive, conscious, and paying attention. Existential work tends to spiral rather than progress in a straight line – the same territory comes up again, but you’re never quite in the same position when it does. Framing that as failure is an assumption I don't find useful.
Some of what we’re attending to has been a long time in the making, and it tends to take a while to shift. Early on, we might focus on stability – depth work requires a foundation, and building one is part of what we do. Over time, we turn more toward what happens in the longer term – within you, between us, and across sessions. We’ll also explore where your values come from, and whether they're ones you’d choose again. No forcing or performing insight. No treating you like a problem that needs solving.
ABOUT
I came to therapy
by a strange route.
Before I was a therapist I was a historian – a medievalist, specifically – who spent years in university writing centres helping people find and keep their voice inside systems that wanted to flatten it. Becoming a therapist lets me pursue that conviction, just through a different door.
I think in references, read tarot, play D&D and spent a decade in mediæval archives – the ADHD diagnosis came later, but it explained a lot. The through-line is a deep investment in how humans make meaning. I’m an academic by formation and I can’t turn that off, but I have no interest in lecturing anyone. I’m genuinely invested in the idea that the weirdest parts of you are usually the most important ones.
I work with individuals, dyads, and groups – online, across Ontario.
Questions?
Consultations are free, twenty minutes, and genuinely no obligation. If you’re wondering whether this is the right fit, a free consultation is the place to ask all your questions. We’ll meet by video call – no preparation needed.