This isn’t an online therapy service anymore – It’s a signpost to two self-help spaces

This website no longer provides online therapy. It’s a signpost to two self-help spaces built around journaling and a new private journaling app that’s currently in closed beta.

Returning clients only (limited):
If you’re a previous client and want short-term booster support, contact me with the form below
I’m not currently taking new therapy clients.

Choose your path

Between Paths — https://BetweenPaths.com
Songs From Life — https://SongsFromLife.com
Between Paths Journal (Closed Beta) — available via BetweenPaths.com

Why this exists

I worked as a therapist for around 20 years, and online for about 15 of those. When Covid hit, it disrupted my work hard, and eventually I had to let the business go and try other directions.

I tried. More than once.

But I kept coming back to the same truth: if I was going to return to this kind of work, it had to be in a way that felt worthwhile, productive, and genuinely human.

I’ve always been a bit of a maverick. Not anti-people and not anti-organisations many do good work but I struggle with systems that feel more policy-led than person-led. After years of working with freedom, going into an organisation where I’d need to fit into a system was always going to feel stifling. That route became untenable.

So I came back differently.

These spaces are built around journaling because journaling can do something quietly powerful: it helps you slow down, name what’s real, and meet yourself with more honesty than you can manage in your head alone. It’s not about perfect wording. It’s about clarity. And self-respect.

A note about harm and why education matters

Over the years I’ve also seen the damage a bad therapist can do. Not just “it didn’t help” I mean harm that leaves people doubting themselves, ashamed for needing support, or afraid to try again.

That’s one reason these projects exist. I believe education reduces vulnerability. When people understand what good support looks like and what the warning signs are they’re less likely to be manipulated, dismissed, or kept small.

Some corners of the therapy world can be strangely intolerant of people who want real respect and compassion. People can be treated like an inconvenience for asking questions, wanting clarity, or not fitting neatly into a system. I’m not interested in work that requires people to shrink themselves to be helped. I’m interested in work that protects agency.

Online work isn’t “just a laptop”

One thing I’ve noticed over the years is that some therapists buy a laptop, open a video app, and assume that’s “online therapy” sorted. Maybe that works for them.

But my own experience was more like a long apprenticeship. Because when you take your work online, you don’t just change the room. You change the risk.

If you only ever see clients through a doctor or an organisation, there’s often some level of filtering and safeguarding around the edges. When you work online in the wider world—especially across regions or countries—you can’t assume that safety net exists.

People arrive with real complexity. Real risk. Real vulnerability. Sometimes unclear identity. Sometimes unstable circumstances. Sometimes expectations that don’t match what you can responsibly offer online. And if you don’t truly understand the risks—clinical, technical, and practical—you can end up exposing clients (and yourself) to harm without meaning to.

So yes, I’m cautious about it. Not because I’m fearful. Because I’ve seen what can happen when people go online without a solid, informed understanding of what they’re taking on.

A note on being human

Being human means carrying a strange blend of hope and limitation. We want to know who we are. What we can do. What we can survive. But we rarely learn our limitations through insight alone. We learn them through doing. Through trying. Through failure. Through the moments that bruise us into understanding the truth and sometimes that makes us face what we fear.

I’ve achieved a lot by pushing forward with stubborn determination (if I just keep going, everything will work out). Sometimes that’s courage. But I’ve also learned that pushing on isn’t the same as wisdom. You can push so hard you simply arrive at the crash sooner. There are seasons where progress looks like slowing down. Like listening. Like admitting this is not working, quietly and without drama, this way isn’t doing it. And choosing to turn before pride turns into damage.

Life has another truth hidden inside it: it’s indifferent. Unpredictable. It doesn’t organise itself around what we want, or what we feel we deserve. It can knock us down and keep moving—not out of cruelty, but out of nature. Even if we have a destiny we can’t avoid, it’s hidden from us, and any thoughts of predetermination have to come from pure speculation.

I learned that getting angry at life leads nowhere, because life isn’t an opponent. It isn’t even aware. We exist inside it the way grass exists beneath our feet unnoticed, not because we’re hated, but because we’re not in its awareness. Life doesn’t hate us. It simply happens.

And strangely, that realisation can bring relief. Because if life isn’t personal, we don’t have to live personally wounded by it. We can grieve what hurts. We can learn what we didn’t know before. We can adjust our steps. And we can keep our humanity steady, awake, and intact even when life does what life does.

Looking ahead

Looking ahead, I’m starting up a podcast you can find out more on the between paths website, just another new venture that might fail or might take off. Honestly, only time will tell.

I do feel the pull back to old ways, it is possable that I may offer online therapy again. Not as a promise, and not as a return to the old setup more as an openness. If it feels aligned, and if there’s a genuine demand, and if I have the time, I’m not closed to it.

I met so many remarkable people in my years as a therapist accompanying them on their journeys was a deeply privileged experience. I learned a lot not just professionally, but as a human being.

There were times I’d sit with a client and often wonder whether I could have survived what they went through. And the honest answer is I don’t know. I’m not sure anyone can know from the outside. You can empathise, you can care, you can imagine, but some things can only be understood from within. You have to live them to truly understand them.

For now, these projects are self-help spaces built around journaling with therapy as a possible future path, if it fits.

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