I'll be with you when the deal goes down
We don’t arrive with solutions. We start with sensation, contradiction, story, silence. This is a practice shaped by phenomenological attention — by staying with what emerges when people are met without coercion, when language falters, when nervous systems signal more than words. We notice how meaning is made, lost, or carried unconsciously in the body. This isn’t abstraction. It’s paying close attention to what doesn’t yet fit the frameworks.
Our own lives have unfolded in crossings: geographic, institutional, ideological. We’ve worked in conflict zones, borderlands, clinical settings, NGOs, faith communities, and refugee camps.
Our foundation is existential: concerned with what it means to live, act, and relate in the face of ambiguity. We draw from liberation psychology to account for the wider systems that contour distress: colonisation, surveillance, gendered violence, inherited silences, and we ask what becomes possible when suffering is not medicalised, but contextualised.
Not everything shows up on the surface. We are shaped by psychoanalytic perspectives, not in the classical sense, but as a way of noticing.
We listen for patterns. For stuckness. For the echoes of history in the room. We make space for transference, projection, resistance. These are not problems to manage, but materials of relationship.
We are not interested in the performance of balance when harm is in the room. We work in trauma-aware ways, yes…but not in ways that flatten context or reduce everything to neurobiology. Trauma is not only personal. It is cultural, historical, structural. And healing, if it happens, happens relationally in witness and friction. We aim for attunement over appeasement, and for clarity over comfort.
There is rigour in flexibility. We’re suspicious of silver bullets and clean models. Our approach is composite and shaped by experience, critical theory, situated ethics, and the ongoing effort to stay responsive without becoming reactive.
The work is slow, sometimes fragmentary. But we trust that integrity emerges through attention, not through mastery.
