Therapy for weird, wild and wayward humans.
Before it meant strange or uncanny, wyrd meant fate or destiny, but not how we understand the idea today. A person’s wyrd is their life purpose, something that unfolds and becomes as past threads and present encounters weave together over time. Wayward humans are people who deviate from established patterns to create their own.
Living an unconventional life requires immense courage and resilience. People in your life probably describe you as brave, driven and capable without fully understanding how exhausting it is to make things up as you go along.
Underneath that fierce, independent exterior are anxiety, insecurity, fatigue and burnout. These can start to make you feel unmoored or isolated.
Conventional supports and self-help advice often seek to pathologise, tame or erase the very things that make you you.
My therapy practice is a virtual hearth: a dedicated space for weird, wild and wayward humans to come in from the cold and trade their adventuring gear for a mug of tea by the fire.
As an existential psychotherapist and a former historian, I don’t offer straight paths or shortcuts. I use narrative deconstruction, philosophical inquiry, parts work and symbolism as portals to explore the deeper layers of your lived experience.
I cannot promise that healing from the adventure thus far is a gentle process, but I can promise that the choice of where to go from here is entirely yours.
Taking responsibility means that in the face of barriers we still have the capacity to invent our lives, to shape our destinies in ways that maximize our well-being.
— bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
My Approach
I practise existential psychotherapy, an inherently relational, experiential and philosophical kind of depth psychology. Don’t panic. We won’t be discussing dense philosophy (unless you find Kierkegaard quotes helpful). Existential therapy focuses on your lived experience as a human being: we normalise anxiety, explore freedom of choice, identify what brings you meaning and use your insights to shape how you move through the world.
Existential therapy has many different applications, including my particular areas of interest:
Existential Dread & Meaning
Neurodivergence
ENM & Kink Dynamics
Higher Education
Alternative Spirituality
You can take the therapist out of the academy,
but you can’t take the academy out of the therapist.
In addition to existential analysis, psychotherapy and philosophy, I study, read widely and pursue ongoing education in the following areas:
Acceptance and commitment therapy
Jungian analysis
Narrative therapy
Somatic therapies
Queer theory
Social and restorative justice