There are moments in your life when you can feel adrift, floating through life, far away from islands of joy, purpose and meaning. In times like this, what you feel inside may not match what others see. You might be able to show up for work (doing tasks) and even to show up for others while feeling alienated from your own feelings. You might also notice yourself reacting in ways that seem surprising or that old pain still finds its way into how you tend to yourself or to significant others. In therapy, we slow down and explore these experiences with gentleness, aiming to understand how they formed and what they've meant in your life.

As the therapeutic process progresses, emotional patterns will gradually become clearer. You may identify some that helped you in the past to survive trough tough moments but may now stand in the way of living a joyful life, and others that were useful in the past and that are still useful in the present, helping you to connect with joviality or personal agency. We can reflect on ways of relating to yourself and others, ways that properly resemble who you are today and the person you wish to become.