

My Approach
I’m not afraid of the places you’ve been.
I’m not afraid of the places inside you now.
I welcome the darkness, truthfully, it's where I feel most at home.
Together, we’ll sort through what needs to be unearthed and held to the light, and what deserves to stay buried for now, resting in the quiet safety of the earth until you’re ready. There is no rush. No pressure. No need to perform your pain or explain your story perfectly.
Just bring yourself as you are: trembling or numb, heavy or hollow, exhausted or hopeful. Your entire self is welcome including the parts that ache, you've hidden, or you don't yet understand,
I’ll be there, steady and unafraid, as we walk deeper into wherever we are meant to go. Not to rescue you from your darkness, but to help you discover that it carries its own meaning, its own wisdom, and a quiet, subconscious longing to be heard and understood.
Although I work with a wide variety of individuals, some people arrive in my space with trembling hands, eyes that have seen too much, or minds haunted by thoughts that circle like crows. Some come wrapped in silence, some in rage, and some in numbness so deep it feels like a second skin. It doesn’t matter how you arrive. I’ll meet you there.
Many people spend their whole lives running from their shadows, the scars, the secrets, the things you think make you unlovable. To me, they’re not flaws. They’re the parts of you that have survived. They’re the proof that something deep inside you refuses to disappear, even when everything else has fallen apart.
I was never meant for surface-level work. My approach is not loud or forceful. It’s slow, deliberate, and intimate. I won’t pull you apart, instead, I will wait with you while the truth rises in its own time. I listen to the parts of you you’ve spent years burying, the parts you call “too dark”. I don’t turn away, and I don’t ask them to be softer or smaller. I’ve always been drawn to the places in the human psyche that pulse with shadow, not because they’re broken but because they’re honest. There is a strange, aching honesty in meeting someone at their rawest point, when the armour cracks and the truth spills out.
A place for you to just ... be
Gentle, thoughtful therapy tailored to your unique journey.
Welcoming in the whole self
Your life and experience within it are not problems to be solved, nor symptoms to be labeled. Instead, every sensation, every emotion, every fragment of yourself is invited into this space, the parts you show, the parts you hide, the parts you have yet to fully meet.
Together, we observe the image that has been quietly painting itself all along. A life, layered and textured, unfolding in ways only your own experiences could create.
Here, your existence is given room to breathe. Freedom to roam. Freedom to see. Freedom to speak. Freedom to feel.
This is a space to remember what it is like to inhabit your own body, your own heart, your own mind. To experience, without editing or protection, what it is to embody your full, true, and authentic self.


Meeting what is here
Once the whole of you is welcomed, we turn toward what is already alive inside you. The memories that stir quietly at the edges, the emotions that rise and fall like tides, the parts of yourself you’ve learned to keep out of sight, all are invited into presence.
You feel the weight of tension in your body, the flutter of anticipation, the slow pulse of a long‑held longing. Nothing is judged. Nothing must change.
We observe together, gently, as if standing before a photograph you’ve carried all your life but never fully looked at. Each detail, each shadow, each highlight begins to speak its own truth.
And in being met, in having your experience witnessed without explanation or correction, it shifts. Slowly. Quietly. Powerfully.
You begin to feel the subtle movement of life reorienting itself from within.
And then, slowly, you begin to breathe differently. You notice a freedom you didn’t realized you were holding back begins to stir: freedom to move, freedom to feel, freedom to exist without performing or explaining.
You allow what is.
The ache, the joy, the hesitation, the release. You let it settle into the space of your own body, your own awareness, without trying to shape it into something else.
It is here, in this simple, quiet permission, that you remember what it is like to live from the inside, whole, embodied, present, and alive.
From this place of presence, something soft opens, a quiet freedom that is felt before it is named, and in this simple, unfolding moment, you remember what it is like to live from the inside - whole, embodied, present, and free.
Allowing what is




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If you would like to know more about me or my psychotherapeutic style, please feel free to reach out anytime!
carlyredmondcounselling@gmail.com
519-357-6273
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