During the first session, we learn about the crisis you’re facing, understand your current pillars of support, and evaluate risks and immediate challenges. As cornerstones for the work, we move toward grounding, creating conscious boundaries and holding through the apex of crisis. De-escalation and decompression are centred at this initial stage.

We hone a relational space for problem-solving toward crisis regulation in order to restore an independent and reliant Self. Creating a place for grounding, the process of stabilisation provides time to develop new and adaptive coping methods. 

With an aim to reclaim the Self, we explore expressions of states of feeling and of “being underway”: new ways of seeing and containing, understanding and implementing self-care, and believing in a return to self-regulation.

To support structure and give focus, we work with you to divide your day into rest, tasks, and self-care in varying time frames. This stage contributes to the ability of processing existing issues, ongoing demands and new awareness. In crisis, this exploration aims to understand what can be further contained as you become ‘psychologically and emotionally bigger.’

To acknowledge the end of our work together, we reimagine and reinterpret the theory of ‘container-contained’ (W. Bion, Psychoanalyst, 1897-1979). While exploring consolidation and endings, we support how you can stay-with a post-crisis regulation and manage new and ongoing stages of reflection.