I’m Simon. I’m not your usual psychiatrist. I’m not going to focus on making the right diagnosis and then finding the right medications to make some of the symptoms go away. I’m more curious about what these symptoms represent and might be trying to signal to you. I’m less interested in what’s wrong with you, and more interested in what’s happened to you. While I acknowledge the role of genetics, I believe that trauma, including transgenerational trauma, underlies much of what constitutes mental illness. I believe that we all became how we are today as an adaptation to what has happened to us along the way. These strategies we developed that once helped us to survive, may now be out of date, creating suffering and getting in the way of us reaching our full potential. If you are curious about yourself, interested in connecting with your essential self, and figuring out what’s in the way of that – maybe I can help. I’m here as an ally on your healing journey, which began long before you met me and will continue after our work together is done. I believe that therapy is fundamentally an intimate, safe (boundaried) human relationship. I show up as a real human, with presence, kindness, and care, in service of your growth.