Our lives are full of contradictory forces: meanings, obligations, bodies, families, ideals, impulses, social expectations, names, strange desires. In often unnoticed but immensely powerful ways, these shape us and, where they conflict or overwhelm us, we suffer.

They have been formed differently in each of us, in the course of our growing up; through difficult life events and moments of great happiness; through how we have understood what has happened to us; through our culture; and by the impact on us of language itself.

Through speaking, it may become possible to set them in new motion, unknot things that are tangled up, think and make decisions, create. Psychoanalysis doesn't give a standard solution, it gives you time to work out one particular to you.

Speaking to another is not always easy and it can be frightening or deeply embarrassing. So before everything else, we need a private, non-judgemental space where we can speak.

This is what I offer.