My Approach

My psychotherapeutic approach is grounded in the principles of Person-Centered and Focusing-Experiential Psychotherapy. At its core are respect and trust in the therapeutic process and in the person’s autonomy, as well as in their inherent capacity to gradually come closer, within a safe environment, to what they are experiencing, needing, and wanting.

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Within this approach, the aim is not to prescribe a particular path, process, or direction, but to create the conditions that allow each person’s own path to emerge authentically.

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For this to become possible, the focus is on creating a genuine and authentic therapeutic relationship, in which, as a psychotherapist, I seek to come as close as possible to the way the person experiences each moment and each experience.

Here, acceptance means that every experience can be given space exactly as it is, without judgment or evaluation. Through this quality of encounter and contact, the person is supported in going deeper and listening more closely to what is happening within them.

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Sometimes, something may be experienced inwardly before we are able to say exactly what it is, what it is asking for, or what it might mean… It is a whole, bodily felt sense that may relate to a situation, a person, or an emotion. In Focusing, this is called the Felt Sense.

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Through gradual and careful contact with it, words or symbols—such as images, emotions, or meanings—may begin to emerge that fit and express what is being experienced, helping the person to understand their experience more deeply, their relationship with that experience, and ultimately their relationship with themselves.

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“What is split off, not felt, remains the same. When it is felt, it changes.”

~ Gendlin