We usually come to therapy because we are overwhelmed with pain, anxiety, depression, toxic relationships, or to save a relationship, quit a job, or after a burnout. We may feel the stigma of a ‘mental health’ label, but it is never just us. There will always have been others in our past … relationships that were deficient in support, or worse that damaged us. Because we get fucked up in relationship, we believe that we can only heal ‘in relationship’. This is the premise that all our relational psychotherapists and counsellors work from.

Psychotherapy can no longer pretend all mental health is a consequence of formative intimate relationships, family and so on. People are damaged by virtue of messages absorbed from the wider society. Forces like patriarchy, racism or homophobia, and wealth inequalities affect and harm us all, cis white men included, by narrowing possibilities for free and fluid expression.

All of our therapists and counsellors are committed to working towards a more just society, acknowledging systemic inequalities. We will work with anybody and don’t believe that lack of money should be a barrier to anyone accessing therapy - we ask that people make a conscious contribution based on what they can afford and also on how much they want to contribute and help.

We are also aware that for some of us, the willingness to show up and do the work of facing our pain is payment enough. The gifts of allowing ourselves a chance to be here despite the pain and unfairness we have suffered are beyond worth.

Core to our ethos is the importance we attach to ‘belonging’ - to a family, group, tribe or biosphere - in constituting wellbeing. Much Psychotherapy has become individually focus to the exclusion of the health of our relationships and wellbeing of those we care about. To the contrary, we believe that when people are accepted, embraced, and belong, the extremities associated with poor mental health are reduced. Most of what we think of as mental ill-health takes route in isolation.

In addition to individual therapy we will also run groups and other social and developmental activities to leverage the power of our network.