Bothersome life issues often contain unsuspected understanding or intentions.

In therapy we aim to identify and integrate these more fully, allowing for clarity and new direction. Sometimes we work with unconscious factors and this might mean looking at early life, or perhaps the quality and manner of past and current relationships. However, it is also beneficial to pay attention to how people behave and experience the world in their moment-to-moment experience. So often my work starts from experience and stays close to experience, rather than trying to contrive any synthetic theories. Occasionally I might suggest working creatively if the client feels comfortable to do so, for example using drawing or visualization. Sometimes working creatively or even looking at someone's dreams really helps to engage with unconscious material and becomes an efficient way of working through unwanted blocks and activating the more useful parts.