Spherical Living: 3-Phases in 2-Pathways of Therapeutic Support

The Therapist’s Role Evolves from providing a strong and consistent holding container, so you feel safe to face what has occurred. Gradually returning the baton over to you as you re-claim your authority in lived expression. The therapist remains alongside you as you begin to live more congruently with who you truly are, beginning with your mind and body moving as one. Eventually, the baton is fully taken up by you, as your inner essence is once more your beholding anchor.

The Phases overlap. They are not always sequential. There is no ranking. For example, you may be in Phase 1 in an intimate relationship, Phase 2 with your family and Phase 3 with work.

Phase 1: Initiating Change – Realisations

You might be here if

• something has ruptured, ended, or shaken your trust in yourself or in life,
• you feel stuck in a repeating loop, or in daily low-grade crisis,
• you feel “not myself”, flattened, anxious, reactive, overwhelmed, or numb,
• part of you wants to be ‘fixed’, or wants someone else fixed,
• you want to understand why.

What we do in sessions

• We start with where you are now. The past matters, but we meet it as it influences you today.
• We slow things down enough to see the patterning: what triggers you, what you avoid, what you swallow back, what you overthink, what you carry.
• We bring unconscious movements into conscious awareness, without judgement. This is not about me imposing a direction or telling you what is ‘right’. This is about you regaining agency.
• We begin rebuilding a relationship with your body as a marker of truth, the foundation of presence.

Between sessions

What changes things is not the session, but how the realisations are lived in your everyday life.

This is where your work begins to take form in your body and in your life. You practise small, tangible moves: a different conversation, a clearer boundary, a changed response, a moment where you catch yourself before you leave yourself in reaction to the world around you. This is the beginning of living the realisations.

Potential outcomes

• You can name what is happening, rather than being overwhelmed by it.
• You feel less at the mercy of other people’s moods, judgements, and expectations.
• You start to sense that you are not broken. Something in you has remained intact.

Often suits

Short- to medium-term work. Sometimes 3–12 weeks is enough to meet a specific crisis or interrupt a pattern, particularly when the realisations are actively lived between sessions.

Session rhythm

Typically weekly.

Phase 2: Embodiment – Living the realisations

Where Phase 1 can bring clarity, Phase 2 can be confronting, because life around you may react when you live differently.

You might be here if

• you have insights, but struggle to live them consistently,
• you make a change and other people react,
• you feel pulled back into old roles and behaviours when you are with family, partners, colleagues, or certain friends,
• you can see patterns, but still feel ‘hooked’ by them.

What we do in sessions

• We work with your ‘in-the-moment’ experience as you tell your story.
• We strengthen your capacity to stay connected with yourself in relationship to others, especially under pressure.
• We review what happened between sessions: where you wobbled, reacted, stayed true, and what your body registered.
• We continue distinguishing between inner authority and behaviour. You learn to recognise when you are living at the mercy of approval, tradition, fear, or old family rules.

Between sessions: the Heart of the Work

Here, it becomes clear that what changes things is not the session, but how consistently the realisations are lived between sessions.

This is where embodiment takes root. You live the realisations that arise in sessions in real environments: your home, your workplace, your relationships. The aim is lived change, made through how you move your body and how you express yourself.

Potential outcomes

• You recover more quickly after being triggered.
• You can stay present in challenging situations and difficult conversations, without reacting as much through collapse, attack, or withdrawal.
• You take things less personally. The inner chatter starts distracts you less.
• You begin to experience a steadier inner base, and from that base your reading of life becomes clearer, your next moves more evident. Life becomes simpler.

Often suits

Medium- to longer-term work. This phase is about consistency, consolidation, and developing increasing confidence in yourself to meet whatever life presents.

Session rhythm

Typically starts with weekly sessions and moves to fortnightly and sometimes monthly.

Phase 3: Advancement and Enrichment – Therapy is for Living

This phase is not the end of a linear line of achievement, but a confirmation of a return to living from, and with, who you are in truth. At this stage, the work is no longer a discussion point, but lived experience.

You might be here if

• you feel more secure in yourself, but want to deepen and refine how you live,
• you want to expand purpose, intimacy, creativity, leadership, or contribution,
• you are no longer mainly crisis-driven, but know there is more to unfold.

What we do in sessions

• We work with subtler relational patterns and identity layers, and explore deeper questions of meaning and purpose.
• We strengthen your capacity to be in a world you accept you cannot control.
• We keep clarifying the inner compass, so you can “stay” with yourself even when the external world reacts, rejects, or opposes you.

Between sessions: Lived Authority

Here, how you live between sessions no longer feels like ‘applying’ anything. It simply becomes how you live. You catch yourself in reaction earlier. You recalibrate faster. You live from inner truth rather than from outside in – what was imposed upon you.

Potential outcomes

• Your listening improves because you are less busy internally preparing to explain, justify, defend, or protect yourself.
• Your expression carries more authority because it is backed by lived consistency of authenticity.
• You become more available for intimate and transparent connection and interaction with others.
• You begin to experience the enrichment of yourself and the enrichment of others as equivalent.
• Your sense of purpose presents with even greater clarity.

Often suits

For some, this is part of longer-term, continuous therapy. For others, it becomes resourcing support that is less frequent but regular, or called upon on an ad-hoc basis. This phase suits those who want therapy not only to reduce suffering, but to support a more purposeful, connected way of living.

Session rhythm

Typically monthly, quarterly, or ad-hoc. A resource you can draw on for regular accountability check-ins, or when support feels helpful.

Where are you?

People arrive at therapy having walked different steps and with varying degrees of awareness. There is no ranking of suffering. If something in you knows, “this is not adding up” or “I can’t keep living like this”, that is more than enough reason to begin.