There is no passion to be found playing small in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Psychotherapy is the slower, deeper, exploratory work of understanding yourself - how you came to be who you are, how you learned to cope, and how certain patterns came to shape your life.

People come to therapy with many different concerns: addiction, anxiety, stress, grief, identity questions, relationship difficulties, trauma, or a sense of emptiness even when life looks “fine” from the outside. This is a space to think, feel, reflect, and make meaning — without pressure to perform, fix, or be anything other than honest.

My belief is that addiction is rarely the problem itself. It is a response to something deeper - a way of coping with pain, shame, disconnection, unmet needs or trauma. This means the work faced by someone in recovery is often the same work faced by anyone in therapy: learning how to live differently inside yourself, and in relationship with others.

Recovery coaching is more focused on finding a way out of active addiction and/or creating a stable foothold in sobriety. It offers support with stopping, stabilising, navigating early recovery and making sense of what comes next.

For some, this practical and relational support is what they need at a particular moment in time. For many, it becomes clear that staying stopped is not only about abstinence, but about understanding what led to addiction in the first place.

As Gabor Maté writes, addiction is not the problem - it is the attempt to solve a problem. Recovery coaching and psychotherapy naturally meet at this point: when the focus shifts from simply stopping, to healing what made stopping necessary.