I work as a Registered Clinical Counsellor in Vancouver, primarily but not exclusively with neurodivergent adults — folks with adhd, autism, or both, often previously mis-diagnosed, under-heard, or given frameworks that didn’t fit. My practice tries to start from where someone actually is, rather than where a given theory expects them to be.
My approach is phenomenological, which in plain English means taking your experience seriously as the starting point — not as a symptom to be categorized, but as something that needs to be understood on its own terms. I’m skeptical of therapeutic modalities that respond to difficulty with more technique or intervention. The work is less about applying something and more about attending carefully to what’s already present.
I’m also a writer. The writing and the therapeutic practice are not separate things — they emerge from the same clinical encounters and feed the same questions. The essays and dialogues on this site are one sustained intellectual project. The foundational text is On Inhibition: Notes from Undisciplined Practice, a philosophical critique of contemporary psychotherapy and an alternative grounded in existential phenomenology. The Phenomenal Series is a growing set of slim volumes applying the same method to specific psychological phenomena — anxiety, narcissism, depression, and others.
What holds all of this together is a commitment to dialogue as a way of working, not just a method within it. The collaboration — in session, in writing, in the correspondence this site supports — is part of the argument. The form carries something the content alone cannot.
I hold a Master of Counselling and am registered with the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC #17907). My practice is at 2233 Burrard Street, Suite 212, in Vancouver. A methodology note on the collaborative writing is available here.