Stimmung Therapy Services

15/04/2026

Suffering is not accidental: it is informative, and points to fundamental human concerns. The problem is not your suffering, but your avoidance, your loss of meaning, your rigid responses to it. Existential Therapy does not ask how to get rid of your suffering, rather “How are you meeting what cannot be removed?”

So in session you may say to your therapist that you don’t see the point, that everything feels heavy, that you wake up and you think “what’s the point?”; your therapist would stay in the phenomenon, asking what it feels like to say this out loud; she may ask you what is most absent in that moment of “what’s the point?” And so the exploration starts. So don’t expect to be presented with strategies to “fix” your suffering, because suffering is important communication to yourself.

10/04/2026

08/04/2026

This is how all therapy should start.

01/04/2026

Fool, buffoon, bag of wind, jester; a symbol of common sense and wisdom, an idiot; a clever confidante, mocking imitator, satirist, revealer of secrets, skilled, trusted, provoker of laughter; trickster, comedian, stand-up, comic.

Don’t take yourself too seriously. If you are the victim of a harmless prank in the western world this morning, have a laugh and get over yourself. Have fun!

25/03/2026

In therapy, you can’t accept or change anything about yourself unless you know what the thing is. So take a good look at yourself. Go with your therapist to the murky, the mighty; the secrets, the exposed; the things you dare not admit to yourself, the overt expressions. Name your values and priorities, admit your vices and your virtues. Go on, I dare you.

23/03/2026

I’m not suggesting you ditch regular routine, regime, planned schedules for novelty and chaos.

Rather, welcome the unknowing that also presents itself with each day.

13/03/2026

Here’s a difficult thing to write. None of my trans clients feel that the “Trans Community” have their back. They tell me that they are being told by their own community how to be trans. They tell me confidentially, scared, unheard, unlistened to, isolated, frightened, betrayed. Whatever trans means to you I have your back.

Here’s what the exquisite artist Redcar says on this subject when interviewed about the recent Trans Mission live event in London.

“I don't really dissociate transness from queerness… I see the artist's art as a distillation of their soul knowledge, and for that I respect the masterminds of Bowie, Anohni, Grace Jones who bended assigned-at birth gender with something more threatening to the public order of fake sanity.

“I see all the glorious dreamers and mavericks, from the great choreographers of our time to Prince and MJ, as a part of this deepening of the spectrum. I see them as a shaman of remembrance, blurring established lines into distinguished emanations of an incarnation that seeks its true essence.

“All great spirits of music, literature, cinema and dance somehow shaped for us exceptions that keep on inspiring us to be bold, in the way our inner child would want us to still be.”

I’m also with him.

12/03/2026

Can’t start each morning without a coffee caffeine hit?

Feeding productivity with energy drinks?

This is living the “unexperienced” life, as my chiropractor and mindfulness trainer Harvey Young Advanced Holistic Therapy would call it - not being fully present, looking for a quick fix, productivity over being, fitness over health.

What do you reckon?

06/03/2026

As I’m developing a new sitting habit for work, I sometimes need to be on the sofa to accommodate my tendonosis. Pt cat, however, is unmoved. Must say, my clients have been ever understanding to their changes of scenery, and to their therapist being on the couch. No psychodynamics here🙄😬.

04/03/2026

02/03/2026

Now I’m back on my bottom! You can just see the top of my sheepskin clad Therapist Chair in which I can now sit from time to time for teletherapy. What incredibly adaptive and understanding clients I have! More chair later…

26/02/2026

Feeling familiar?