William Bishop (he/him)

Self-esteem can become a lifelong project of gathering enough evidence that we are worthy. We compare, perform, achieve, please, perfect, and still find the verdict changing from day to day. Together, we get curious about who is doing the judging, where those standards came from, and what happens when a thought about yourself becomes your identity. The work is not simply thinking more highly of yourself, but becoming less captive to the need to constantly decide your worth.

Relationships ask us to do something remarkably difficult - remain ourselves while deeply connected to someone who experiences the world differently. I help individuals and couples explore the patterns, needs, and protections shaping their relationships. We practice staying present when emotions rise, becoming curious about difference rather than threatened by it, and creating more room for honesty, differentiation, intimacy, play, and reciprocity.

Anxiety can be loud - panic, dread, racing thoughts - or quieter, showing up as overthinking, perfectionism, avoidance, or difficulty resting. Sometimes it is responding reasonably to something difficult; sometimes an old protective system is working in a world that has changed. We get curious about how your anxiety makes sense - what activates it, what it protects, how it lives in your body, and how to experience uncertainty without allowing anxiety to organize your life.

Insight is useful, but sometimes we need to experience something differently rather than understand it better. Experiential therapy brings the work into the room through immediacy, emotion, enactments, and role play. We might recreate a difficult conversation, switch roles, or notice what happens as you tell a story. The question becomes less “Why do I do this?” and more “What is happening right now - and what changes when we actually play with it?”

Human problems rarely belong to just one part of us. What looks like anxiety might also involve a relationship, a story about yourself, something happening in the body, an old adaptation, or a question of meaning. Integrative therapy lets us move between perspectives rather than forcing everything through one theory. We build a wider map, notice how the pieces influence one another, and look for useful places to intervene. Complexity becomes something we can navigate.

I use existential therapy to explore questions of identity, freedom, meaning, and responsibility. We don’t pathologize discomfort—we get curious about what it’s pointing to. Together, we make space for uncertainty, confront stuckness, and clarify values. I believe that much of our suffering arises when we live out of alignment with ourselves. Existential work helps clients reclaim agency and live more intentionally in the face of life’s ambiguity.

We inherit plenty of ideas about who we should be and what a meaningful life is supposed to look like. Existential work gives us room to wonder what is actually meaningful to you. We explore identity, values, freedom, responsibility, fulfillment, and the realities we cannot choose. Then we get to play - what draws you in, brings you alive, invites flow, or simply feels worth doing? Meaning does not always need to be justified. Sometimes we get to discover what makes being you worthwhile.