Not every approach is built for people who think like this. This one is.

I'm Gareth, a therapist and the founder of Us Together. My background is in psychology and neuroscience. Before this, I worked as a teacher, and that experience shaped how I explain and work through complex ideas with people. My approach draws on CBT, existential philosophy, and a framework I developed through working with people who think deeply and find themselves stuck.

Traditional therapeutic and psychiatric support is not a stepping stone to be left behind. For many people it is essential, the thing that stabilises acute distress, manages symptoms, and creates the conditions in which deeper work becomes possible at all. Us Together begins where that work creates space. The question it addresses is not what is wrong with your thinking, but why your thinking keeps returning to the same territory even when the acute pressure has lifted. That persistent return, the rumination, the stagnation, the sense of being unable to move forward, is often not a symptom of illness. It is the mind circling an unexamined existential question about meaning, direction, identity, or purpose. Addressing that question through both reflective examination and an honest evaluation of your own agency is what breaks the cycle. Not by replacing the thinking with better thinking, but by understanding how you think, why you think it, and what it is actually pointing toward. The result is not dependence on a framework or a practitioner. It is an expanded capacity to meet future difficulty from a position of self-knowledge. Adaptation rather than reliance. Agency owned rather than outsourced.

This isn't a practice built around managing symptoms or keeping you coming back. I want to understand what the thinking is actually pointing toward, work through it with you, and help you reach a point where you can act on it. Most clients work with me once a week, and we stop when the work is done. The aim is always that you leave with something you can use on your own.