I'll be with you when the deal goes down
We don’t arrive with a method we apply to people. We start by paying attention to what’s actually in the room — what’s being said, what isn’t, what the body is doing while the words are happening. The frameworks come later, and only when they fit. Most of the time the work is closer to noticing than analysing.
The practice has been shaped by working across crossings — geographies, institutions, communities, languages. Conflict zones and refugee camps. Clinical settings, NGOs, faith contexts. What that work has taught us is that distress is rarely only personal. It’s shaped by what surrounds it: colonisation, surveillance, gendered violence, inherited silences. We work from that understanding rather than around it.
Not everything shows up where you’d expect it. We work with psychoanalytic ideas, not in their classical form but as a way of listening — for what repeats, what gets stuck, what carries weight that doesn’t belong to the present moment. Transference, projection, resistance. These shape every relationship and every room. The work is to notice them rather than smooth them over.
Neutrality isn’t a position we claim. The work is trauma-aware, but trauma isn’t only personal — it’s cultural and structural, and pretending otherwise flattens it. Healing, where it happens, happens relationally and often uncomfortably. We work for clarity. Comfort is a different thing.
The practice draws on experience, critical theory, and situated ethics rather than a single school or framework. We’re sceptical of clean models and silver bullets. The work is slow and sometimes fragmentary. That’s a feature of the kind of work it is, not a problem we’re trying to solve.