For Uni Students
Uni is about a lot more than uni.
Assignments. Exams. Deadlines. Group projects. Money. Work. Relationships. Family expectations. Making friends. Losing friends. Moving away from home. Still living at home. Figuring out who you are.
And somehow, while doing all of that, it can feel like you're also supposed to decide what you want to do with the rest of your life. No pressure.
University can be exciting, liberating and genuinely life-changing.
It can also be lonely, overwhelming, exhausting and occasionally leave you wondering whether everyone else secretly got an instruction manual that you missed.
Therapy gives us somewhere to talk about the human stuff happening alongside the academic stuff.
I actually know the uni world.
I've worked in academic coaching and advising, student success, student life, orientation and transition programs, peer mentoring and university teaching — including supporting students experiencing academic difficulty, probation, uncertainty, major life transitions and the general messiness that can come with becoming an adult while simultaneously trying to earn a degree.
I also hold a Master of Education in Higher Education Student Affairs, alongside my postgraduate training in psychotherapy and counselling.
So when you talk about academic pressure, changing courses, failing something for the first time, struggling to focus, feeling completely behind, navigating university systems, questioning whether you belong there, or having absolutely no idea what comes after graduation...
I know the world you're talking about.
But this isn't academic advising.
You don't have to perform here.
There are no grades. No learning outcomes. No five-year plan required.
We're interested in you.
Because sometimes the subject you’re struggling through isn't really the problem. And that’s okay.
Maybe you're overwhelmed by everything you need to do, so you do none of it.
Maybe one bad mark suddenly feels like evidence that you're not good enough.
Maybe you're doing brilliantly academically and quietly falling apart everywhere else.
Or perhaps uni is simply where everything else is happening — relationships, sexuality, identity, family, independence, loneliness, anxiety, friendship, sex, money, belonging and figuring out who you're becoming.
We can get curious about all of it.
You don't have to have uni figured out.
You don't need to know whether you're in the right degree.
You don't need to know what you're doing after graduation.
You don't need to be having the best years of your life.
And struggling doesn't mean you don't belong at university.
Sometimes you might just need…
Sometimes you might need practical ways of understanding what's getting in the way.
Sometimes you might need somewhere to put the pressure down for an hour.
Sometimes you might just need someone who understands the system and is much more interested in understanding you.
We can start there.
Come as you are.