Articles & Essays
Essays are the long reads, articles the shorter pieces, both for the ideas worth sitting with in your own time.
Love Rewritten: How Relationships Change Over Time
We want love to be home, mirror, adventure, and safety all at once. This piece explores how relationships have changed, and what that asks…
Men Get a Midlife Story. Women Get a Diagnosis.
Understanding the in-between years I remember the moment it was named, though it had been circling for a while. Life looked fine from the…
Between Cultures: Notes on Belonging, Love and Learning to Speak Yourself
Between cultures, belonging can feel split. A reflective piece on identity, love, loss, and carrying more than one home within you.
Arms Length: The Closeness We Fear
Fear of closeness isn’t a flaw. It’s protection with a history – and with care, it can soften into connection.
AI and Therapy: Friend or Foe?
AI is smart. It is helpful. But is it enough? A relational psychotherapist reads the limits of artificial intelligence in the consulting room, with…
Brick by Brick: Building Intimacy is not Just One Leap
True intimacy isn’t built on grand gestures,it grows in everyday moments of care, respect, and connection. Learn how to nurture lasting emotional closeness.
Still Functioning, Totally Fried: The Slow Burn of Burnout
You’ve rested, switched off, journaled,and still feel hollow. Burnout runs deeper than stress. Here’s why therapy, not just tools, might be what’s missing.
Connecting With Your Inner Child
The Inner Child is a symbolic representation of the childlike aspects of one’s psyche. The concept is often used to help personal growth in…
To Risk or Not to Risk: The Unsettling Freedom of Modern Love
London is sweltering through another heatwave. Trains are delayed, tempers are short, and sleep is elusive. One of my fiercely independent, long-time single clients…
