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Between sessions

Between sessions

Therapy doesn’t begin and end within the session. Often, something stays with you—or begins to take shape—after we’ve spoken.

This space offers a selection of resources to explore in your own time. Some invite reflection, others offer grounding, inspiration, or simply company. You’ll find things to read, listen to, and look at—each chosen because it speaks to something I often see clients reaching toward.

This is a living, evolving space—much like therapy itself. I’ll continue to add to it over time as I come across things that feel worth sharing. You’re welcome to check back now and then and see what’s new.

And if you come across something that moves you—an article, a piece of music, an image, you’re welcome to share it with me. This space is shaped in dialogue.

The Reading Room

Books, essays, and articles—pieces that resonate with the themes many of us grapple with. Where possible, I link to independent bookshops or small online sellers. I make no profit from these links—they’re shared simply for ease and access.

Leanne Maskell – Autism, Blooming & A-Z of ADHD

Leanne Maskell writes from lived experience, and it shows. Her voice is direct, compassionate, and grounded in a deep understanding of what it’s like to …

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Fritz Perls – In and Out the Garbage Pail

This is not your typical psychotherapy book. It’s part memoir, part dream journal, part provocation—and very much Fritz Perls. Raw, fragmented, and unapologetically personal, In …

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Joseph Zinker – Creative Process in Gestalt Therapy

This book is a beautiful reminder that therapy is an art form as much as it is a practice. Zinker writes with clarity, generosity, and …

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David R. Hawkins – Healing and Recovery

This is a book for those who sense there’s more to healing than symptom relief. Healing and Recovery weaves together psychology, medicine, and consciousness in …

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Richard Price – The Life and Practice of Richard Price: A Gestalt Biography

This is the story of Richard Price—a co-founder of Esalen and an early student of Fritz Perls—who took Gestalt therapy beyond the therapy room and …

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The Listening Room

Podcasts, music, and soundscapes that offer something to settle into—whether it’s a shift in perspective, a moment of calm, or something that quietly reflects your experience. Some speak to therapeutic themes; others are here for their ability to ground, stir, or soothe.

The Telepathy Tapes

Telepathy Tapes is a quiet, powerful podcast exploring connection beyond language—often through the experiences of non-speakers and intuitive forms of communication. It invites deep listening …

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Greg Foat – Journey to Arcturus

This album has become something of a companion. Journey to Arcturus moves slowly, spaciously, without urgency. It doesn’t push for direction or clarity. Instead, it …

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Rupert Sheldrake on the Joe Rogan Experience

A conversation on morphic fields, felt inheritance, and the science of what we sense. In this thought-provoking episode, Rupert Sheldrake—biologist and author of Morphic Resonance—joins …

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The Thinking Mind – Ep. 77: Gestalt Psychotherapy & Training as a Therapist (with Sarah Paul)

Sarah was my trainer when I first began. Listening to her speak here brings me back to what makes Gestalt so alive—contact, responsibility, awareness. This …

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The Viewing Room

Art, film, and photography—visual stories and expressions that reach where words sometimes can’t.

Little Miss Sunshine

For anyone who’s ever felt like the one holding things together while quietly falling apart, Little Miss Sunshine offers something rare: relief in the mess. …

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Billy Elliot

Billy Elliot is a film about movement, but not just the physical kind. It’s about what happens when something inside you stirs before you have …

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The Holdovers

Every so often, a film lingers long after the credits roll—not for its drama or spectacle, but because it holds something quietly true. The Holdovers …

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Bella Peroni

The name GeistLife came to me in an unexpected moment. I’d stepped upstairs in a tucked-away shop in St Albans, where a few prints quietly …

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Diane Arbus – Photography

There was a time I couldn’t decide between psychology and photography—I chose photography. It was my first attempt at making sense of the world through …

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