Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, conversation-led — with optional digital image-making when words aren’t enough.

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Sessions are a depth-oriented form of psychodynamic psychotherapy offered online. They are primarily conversation-led, and when it feels helpful, we would use simple digital image-making—using basic tools on a screen—as another way of noticing patterns, inner stories, and nervous-system responses, especially when words aren’t enough.​

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Digital art-making is always optional. Some clients prefer to work entirely through talk; others find that simple visuals help express what feels hard to name. You don’t need to be “good at art,” and no design or creative background is required—the focus is on meaning and what the process reveals, not on producing anything polished.

As someone who has moved through life with a neurodivergent brain and sensory processing disorder, I know what it is like to function “well” on the outside while quietly running on overdrive inside. For years, I pushed myself to adapt to systems that were never really built for me, and I see that same pattern in many of the high-performing, sensitive neurodivergent adults I work with today.

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Digital Art Psychotherapy grew out of my lived experience and my training in psychodynamic art psychotherapy. It brings together what tends to support nervous systems like mine—and many of the people I work with: structure, minimal clutter, and the online spaces we already inhabit. I’ve found that simple digital images can offer a clean, contained way to slow down, notice patterns more clearly, and experiment with change without becoming overwhelmed. Creating that kind of space—the one I would have wanted earlier in my own journey—is why I offer digital image-making as an option in sessions.

Sessions are calm, honest, respectful and collaborative. I think of therapy as a kind of personal project we work on together – something we slowly co-create over time. You bring your experiences, questions and a willingness to be curious about what is happening inside you; I bring a clear therapeutic framework, a contained, non-judgemental space, and psychological thinking and tools to help us make sense of what emerges, at a pace that feels manageable for you.

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In a typical session, we might:

• Check in with what feels most present and important for you that day.

• Decide together what we want to focus on and why.

• Notice patterns, stories, experiences and nervous-system responses as they show up.

• If it feels useful, use simple digital image-making as an optional way of exploring what is hard to put into words, then reflect together on what emerges.

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Some sessions will be entirely conversation-led; in other sessions, we may bring in simple digital art-making as an optional support. We choose this collaboratively, and at times, I may suggest a particular focus or way of working if I feel it will support you, based on what feels manageable and useful for you at that point in time.

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​The aim is more than just short-term relief. While easing distress in the moment matters, our work is also about understanding what sits underneath – the patterns, histories and nervous-system responses that keep repeating. I see therapy as an ongoing personal project we work on together, so that what happens in session can slowly translate into a clearer understanding inside you and gradual, sustainable shifts in how you live, relate and care for yourself, both between sessions and in your life.

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This work is best suited to adults who seem to be managing on the outside, while carrying a lot on the inside, particularly:

• High-performing, often sensitive or neurodivergent adults.

• Individuals who find it hard to put their inner world into words alone (and/or who think visually).

• Individuals who feel overloaded, stuck, anxious or quietly disconnected, despite “functioning well".

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You do not have to identify with all of these. It is enough to feel that something in you is asking for a more honest, deeper look.

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​A small practical note: Because sessions are fully online, you’ll need to be able to join a simple video call (e.g. Google Meet or Zoom) and have a reasonably private space for our time together. And if you prefer talk therapy only, that’s absolutely okay—many sessions are entirely conversation-led.