Gia Denis, MA

As an existential therapist, I can help you with looking at your experience of your relationships, your values, any narratives that you hold about yourself, and your broader world. The convergence of your experience of these things often holds vital and change-making information about the difficulties you may be facing.

Sessions with me are a space for honest, reflective dialogue. We will look at how you relate to anxiety, change, loss, and the realities of being human, and how these shape the way you live. Many clients come to me when they feel stuck, disconnected from themselves, or confronted by big questions about purpose, identity, or direction. My approach is human-hearted and collaborative, but I am not averse to challenge when it feels appropriate and necessary.

I spent several years working on London's Harley Street in addiction treatment, and in the London charity sector specialising in domestic abuse alongside my private practice. Though I work with a broad range of presenting issues, below are themes that I have significant experience and knowledge in working with:

• Addiction (12-step, holistic models)
• ADHD
• Anger
• Anxiety
• Attachment themes
• Bereavement, grief & loss
• Boarding school & educational trauma
• Childhood trauma
• Chronic illness & pain
• Codependency
• Depression
• Difficulties with boundaries
• Domestic violence & abuse
• Divorce
• Eating disorders
• Enmeshment
• Familial estrangement
• Family of origin dysfunction
• Loss of relationships
• Parenting from within
• Perfectionism
• People-pleasing
• Relationship difficulties
• Resentment
• Self-criticism & self-esteem
• Sex & love addiction (SLA)
• Single-event trauma
• Social anxiety
• Work-related stress & anxiety, work addiction

Since my approach is grounded in existential and phenomenological principles, I always aim to understand your world as you live it, without imposing rigid theories or quick fixes. My philosophical framework doesn't seek to medicalise or over-pathologise what may be bringing you into therapy. I focus on how you experience your life rather than just on symptoms or diagnoses.

Together, we explore the meanings you give to your experiences, the choices available to you, and how you relate to your own sense of freedom, responsibility, and uncertainty. I also encourage my clients to examine the narratives that they hold about themselves and the world, to understand if they are constructed or inherited, and therefore whether they are empowering or limiting.

I currently work primarily online but see clients in person in Tel Aviv. I also facilitate online psychotherapy groups, so please let me know if you are curious about working in a group. I am a passionate advocate for the efficacy of working therapeutically in groups and would be delighted to welcome new clients into the groups that I have facilitated for many years.