Now well into my 60s, my experience is that life is a path, a journey in meaning and purpose, even if that isn't always apparent. I have been a psychotherapist for more than thirty years, listening to people's stories, accompanying them on their paths. I have trained and supervised psychotherapists for over fifteen years, and I continue my own journey of learning, developing and becoming. All of these experiences have shown me, repeatedly and consistently, that life presents us with precisely the challenges we need in order to learn, grow, and move towards our original nature. Because of this, it is best to meet life's challenges with humility and receptivity, openness and honesty, perseverance and acceptance. 

Life is difficult, but the difficulties can be seen as rites of passage one must go through on the journey to becoming oneself, freeing oneself from the restrictions of social conditioning, and re-connecting to the natural order and pattern of life. We can develop by facing what life presents us with, by recognising our problems as our responsibility and seeing them for what they are: opportunities to learn and grow. If such challenges are faced  patiently, with compassionate curiosity, there is no end to how far they can take us. 

Depth psychotherapy necessarily addresses social conditioning or programming. Often unconscious at the beginning of therapy, social conditioning undermines a person's relationship with their own nature and with life itself. As a person is gradually liberated from such programming, they begin to return to their original being, and thus to a loving, fulfilling, accepting, and meaningful relationship with life, with others, and with themselves. The process is one of coming into harmony with your original nature, and with life itself - including its challenges.  

Successful psychotherapy depends on the quality of relationship between the psychotherapist, the person coming to see them, and the unfolding pattern of that person's life. It is the quality of these relationships that is healing. And for healing to be whole, it is not only the psyche that needs to be addressed, but also the body and spirit, so healthy disciplines around diet, physical & spiritual practices, and interactions with the world are a corollary to successful therapy. These disciplines bring about an inner stability, and inner stability lis necessary for the development of wisdom.

What is the purpose of a human life? My position is that it is to manifest one's original nature. This necessitates a re-connection to the natural order of things, which in turn facilitates a way of being in the world that will necessarily be meaningful and fulfilling. This, in turn, brings about a deep and robust experience of well-being and contentment. To get there requires hard work and discipline, but the journey itself is also intimate, rewarding and affirming. As Sigmund Freud said, people who go into psychotherapy are the true heroes of our society.

Life presents us with the challenges we must face in order to win ourselves back, and my work is to accompany people on this extraordinary and rewarding journey. I have devoted myself to establishing in my psychotherapy practice a place that is a spiritual home for people, a place where they can be met on many levels, a place where they can explore, take risks, and learn.