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About Drew
Drew is a registered psychotherapist and counsellor, with over 10 years clinical experience focused on how relationships can make or break self-esteem, and what the secrets are to make relationships work.
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Holding an average of 30 sessions a week, he has more than 15,000 hours clocked probing clients for details of their experience (details they have not shared with anyone) and helping them transform their happiness and love-life.
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He's held groups and ran workshops on therapy. He advocates consent, fairness, and self-respect.
Relationships: navigating love with grace
​That phrase is really key to my philosophy "navigating love with grace" - it's a real skill because love (and desire) is so hard. It brings up our ego, our mummy/daddy issues, our defences, traumas, shame and grief. To find balance between pulling in what you need, and pushing away what could hurt. We must dare to have hope, whilst not getting too attached.
An art of self-defence
To me, therapy is like martial arts. Life will take swings at you. Some attacks are crude, others complex and subtle - but there is always a way to meet them. Therapy is the dojo where we learn those moves. Where you stop getting emotionally “beaten up” and start getting smarter, stronger, more agile. This is why I don’t fear the challenges my clients bring; I’m fascinated by them. Each one holds a secret - something about how life works.
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I also don’t believe in the passive, nodding therapist trope. I’m not a scarecrow in a chair. You won’t be talking into a void. I’ll be thinking with you, questioning with you, offering insights, and sometimes making bold suggestions. I don’t believe you'll "find your own way" just by talking - I think we go in circles without guidance. I won’t watch you suffer silently. If I see a way out, I’ll show you. That’s what care looks like to me.