Existential Therapy
Melbourne
Blog
This is my old counselling website, which I have left as a blog.
You can see my current website here.
I have left this site in place to share my old writing.
These pieces represent who I was a decade ago, both as a person and a professional in my early thirties (the photo above is from that time). I still get asked about what happened to the writing from those years, so I am sharing it here.
This writing represents the early years of my work as a philosophical counsellor and existential therapist. It was as a philosopher, teaching at university, that I came to counselling, with an aim to combine the two. Although it might not be obvious in the writing, there is searching and experimenting going on in many of these pieces, as I developed my understanding and craft. These pieces are based on my experience of the work after a few years as a voluntary counsellor and then a few years of intensive professional counselling.
Today, in my early forties, I am a different person both personally and professionally. I still practice philosophical counselling and existential therapy, but it has matured greatly. Plus I have strongly defined and differentiated what I do compared to psychology and other counselling, for example I now very clearly define myself as a personal growth professional and not a mental health professional, and for this reason will no longer express opinions on psychiatry or clinical psychology - they have their domain (psychological disorders) and I have mine (the hardships and good things of life) - and so I have left some of my most popular writing out as a result.
So, these pieces do not necessarily represent my current thinking or counselling practice (some do, some don't) but instead they are a reflection of where I was a decade ago. They are a document of the journey.
Go here to read them.
You can see my current website here.
I have left this site in place to share my old writing.
These pieces represent who I was a decade ago, both as a person and a professional in my early thirties (the photo above is from that time). I still get asked about what happened to the writing from those years, so I am sharing it here.
This writing represents the early years of my work as a philosophical counsellor and existential therapist. It was as a philosopher, teaching at university, that I came to counselling, with an aim to combine the two. Although it might not be obvious in the writing, there is searching and experimenting going on in many of these pieces, as I developed my understanding and craft. These pieces are based on my experience of the work after a few years as a voluntary counsellor and then a few years of intensive professional counselling.
Today, in my early forties, I am a different person both personally and professionally. I still practice philosophical counselling and existential therapy, but it has matured greatly. Plus I have strongly defined and differentiated what I do compared to psychology and other counselling, for example I now very clearly define myself as a personal growth professional and not a mental health professional, and for this reason will no longer express opinions on psychiatry or clinical psychology - they have their domain (psychological disorders) and I have mine (the hardships and good things of life) - and so I have left some of my most popular writing out as a result.
So, these pieces do not necessarily represent my current thinking or counselling practice (some do, some don't) but instead they are a reflection of where I was a decade ago. They are a document of the journey.
Go here to read them.