The Therapy Journal
This is where psychotherapy steps out of the session and into conversation. From our defences that shape our daily lives to the emotions that drive our choices, these pieces explore the human mind through a psychodynamic lens.
Whether clinical or cultural, every post asks the same question: what happens when we stop avoiding our feelings?
Where therapy meets everyday life…
Four Thousand Hours: A Reflection on Depth, Distance, and the Digital Room
After four thousand hours of online psychodynamic work, I’ve learned that profound emotional work is possible when convenience meets courage. It depends on what both therapist and client can bear to feel, and what they can stay with long enough to transform. Depth work goes beyond ‘fixing’ surface-level symptoms. Here, we build the capacity to feel, experience your emotions and tolerate anxiety. So you can stop letting the history you carry dictate your present and derail your potential future. This is the path to emotional freedom…
The Therapy FAD? Rethinking our Feelings, Anxiety and Defences Across Modalities
Every client’s struggle follows the same human sequence: feelings trigger anxiety, and anxiety triggers defences. The “Therapy FAD” reframes this not as pathology, but as survival. When therapists learn to read defences as signals of unprocessed feeling, and regulate anxiety rather than chase thoughts, therapy becomes a space for transformation, not resistance.
The Power of Coming Back: Lewis Capaldi, Vulnerability, and the Quiet Strength of Resilience
Resilience rarely arrives with noise or drama. It grows quietly, moment by moment, through support, honesty, and courage. Watching Lewis Capaldi return to the stage after facing his mental health challenges was a moving reminder that what heals us in therapy is what heals us in life: connection, patience, and belief in ourselves.