This Work
What this practice is, what it is not, and who it tends to fit.
This begins with whatever has become difficult to ignore. A recurring pattern in relationships. A dream that won't let go. A moment of recognition that something you have been doing for years no longer makes sense, or perhaps never did. A sense that the life you are living and the person you actually are have drifted some distance apart, and the distance is widening.
We start there, and stay with it long enough to see more of its structure.
It is not therapy. I do not diagnose or treat, and I am not a substitute for clinical care. If that is what someone needs, I say so plainly and refer out. I hold that line without ambiguity.
It is not coaching. This isn't organized around goals or outcomes, and I am not going to tell you what your life means or where it should go. The agency stays with you.
A depth-oriented practice draws on what depth psychology, attachment theory, family systems work, contemplative tradition, and symbolic material have to teach about how people actually operate, not as a diagnostic checklist, but as working maps.
Depending on what someone brings, we may work with dreams, sustained written correspondence, recurring relational patterns, attachment dynamics, projection, family-of-origin material, symbolic images that carry weight, or visual images as a way of surfacing what the conscious mind hasn't yet been permitted to say.
The point is to build your capacity to do this on your own, to form a working relationship with yourself that does not depend on me to hold it together.