Depth & Transpersonal Work

Some people come to therapy not only because life feels difficult, but because something meaningful, powerful, or unsettling has entered their experience and needs careful attention.

This might include intense emotional or imaginal states, experiences of altered consciousness, spiritual or numinous moments, creative or symbolic material, or periods of transition that feel difficult to place within ordinary language. Sometimes these experiences arise through meditation, retreats, psychedelic or plant medicine experiences, or time spent in nature. At other times, they arrive unexpectedly — through dreams, crisis, loss, or moments of profound connection or disorientation.

I offer a grounded, relational space where these experiences can be explored without being pathologised, inflated, or prematurely explained away.

How I approach transpersonal work

My approach is informed by depth psychology, Jungian and post-Jungian thinking, and contemporary transpersonal perspectives, alongside close attention to nervous system capacity, context, and everyday functioning.

I’m interested in depth that can be lived with, rather than experiences that overwhelm, fragment, or destabilise. This means working carefully with timing, pacing, and limits — recognising when something needs to be explored, and when it needs to be contained, grounded, or left alone for now.

Symbolic language, dreams, images, imagination, and felt sense may be part of the work, but they are never forced or treated as inherently meaningful. Interpretation is offered tentatively and collaboratively, and only where it supports clarity, agency, and integration.

Integration rather than transcendence

I’m particularly attentive to the integration of powerful experiences into ordinary life — relationships, work, parenting, creativity, and the body.

Sometimes the task is not to go deeper, but to come back: to stabilise, orient, and find language for what has happened without turning it into a special identity or a problem to solve. At other times, the work involves making room for grief, loss, disillusionment, or the sense that old meanings no longer hold.

“Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.
After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.”
— Zen saying

Wild and nature-based elements

Where it feels appropriate and workable, I also offer sessions outdoors, including walking or nature-based work. Time in natural settings can support grounding, symbolic processing, and a different quality of attention — particularly for people who find indoor or highly verbal settings limiting.

This is offered as an option rather than a requirement, and always shaped collaboratively.

Who this work may suit

This way of working may suit you if you are:
• integrating psychedelic, retreat, or spiritual experiences
• drawn to Jungian, symbolic, or imaginal ways of understanding experience
• navigating periods of transition, rupture, or reorientation
• interested in meaning, creativity, or depth without wanting to lose ground in everyday life

You don’t need to have a clear framework for what you’re experiencing. There is space to explore uncertainty, ambiguity, and not-knowing, at a pace that feels manageable.

This work may not suit you if you are primarily looking for techniques to induce altered states, strong spiritual direction, or a fixed explanatory system.

If you’d like to explore whether this kind of work might be helpful, you’re very welcome to get in touch. An initial session can offer space to talk things through and see how it feels to work together.