What Therapy Really Is

When people think of therapy, they often imagine someone who gives advice or tells you what to do. But therapy isn’t about being told how to live your life — it’s about creating space to explore how you actually feel and who you are beneath the noise.

In my practice, therapy is a meeting place.

It’s where presence, empathy, and curiosity invite a deeper connection with yourself. Inspired by the humanistic philosophy of Carl Rogers, I trust each person’s natural capacity for growth when met with genuine acceptance and understanding.

Therapy isn’t about fixing what’s “wrong,” but about discovering what’s real — your needs, your emotions, your inner rhythm. Like Tara Brach’s approach to meditation, therapy isn’t an intellectual process. It’s something that is felt — an embodied experience of awareness, compassion, and gentleness toward yourself.

It can also help shed light on relational conflicts — those reoccurring situations or patterns that keep showing up in relationships, leaving us feeling unseen, unheard, or misunderstood. In therapy, these moments become opportunities to understand ourselves more deeply, to see how we relate, and to begin transforming how we show up with others.

Each session is a conversation at your pace.

Sometimes it’s about untangling confusion, sometimes about finding words for something that’s never been said out loud before. Over time, therapy supports emotional autonomy — the ability to relate to yourself with presence, kindness, and clarity.

Online therapy makes this process accessible wherever you are. Whether you’re navigating relationship struggles, life transitions, or simply wanting to know yourself better, therapy can become a space to return home — to yourself.

Warmly,

Jey Kirouac

Humanistic Therapist – Online Sessions in English & French

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