The intro session is a small trailer of what’s possible, a glimpse into the territory we could explore together. Sometimes that first meeting makes it clear we’re not a good fit, or that now isn’t the right season. Other times it sparks a sense that something beautiful could open up if we kept going. Or maybe it takes a few sessions to really know.
And that might bring up some practical questions: how do I engage with you, how much time and resources will this ask of me, what am I really saying yes to, etc. Here’s how I enjoy working.
Building Something Together
We met as strangers. Whatever trust and attunement we felt between us could deepen more with time. As we continue, the explorations tend to get braver and more precise, allowing us to go into the most tangled and tender areas of the mind. That depth, and building that kind of relationship with you, is what I care about and love the most about this work.
You can choose to work with me occasionally — a session to feel through what’s alive, get perspective, or unkink a snarl.
“[…] every time I worked with you, I found a new level of depth to my being, in the sense that, I got to give voice to parts of myself I didn’t even know existed” — Matthew ‘Anansi’ Huff
“[…] It quickly became apparent that *every* session with theo felt like one of those extra-special sessions in “normal” therapy that can take months to work up to – the ones that meaningfully loosen some internal knot or make an unexpected connection.” — Credo
But I want to offer more than just “good sessions”. I want to care about this work, care about you and root for you, even outside our calls. I want to find myself:
- remembering a moment from our session while walking
- sensing your patterns show up in my own life and learning from it
- feeling a thread I want to bring back to you
- sometimes researching a puzzle you’re working with
- meditating on your vibes, sending you metta
So, rather than “see you when you schedule”, I want a vibe that’s more like “we’re in this together for a stretch”. I want to create space for:
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- Continuity: compounding trust and attunement with you over time, so that our explorations go into uncharted territories
- Holding the thread between sessions: a check-in text, a voice note, a piece of music or writing that reminds me of something you said, making space for your questions
- Sensitivity to your context: knowing you beyond the presenting issues — your history, significant relationships, deepest aspirations, health, constraints, seasons of life
- Ecology of practice: helping you cultivate a set of practices that feed each other (meditation, relational honesty, attachment repair, somatic work, creative practice, life action)
- Integration: making sure insights translate into real conversations, decisions, and brave life movement
- Loving accountability: gently tracking what you say you care about, and returning to it together over time
- Meta-communication: having channels for needs, boundaries, feedback, and “what’s happening between us?” // making authenticity safer and easeful in our relationship
- Occasional “deeper dive” experiences when aligned (longer sessions, altered-state explorations, retreats, etc.)
Here’s the structure I’ve built around that:
Monthly Container
We meet every other week or so for a deep session, and in between we keep the thread alive through light texts/voice notes — check-ins, questions, and reflections from real life — so the themes keep unfolding until we meet again. Also, at the end of each session, we name one brave life-lean (a conversation, decision, boundary, action) and gently track it in the following days and sessions.
Over time, I want the container to serve as a home-base for you: steady and attuned presence, sensitive to your context, and a thread that keeps gathering depth+momentum.
A monthly container doesn’t necessarily mean more intensity and obligation. It’s about continuity, and some months will be gentle. Also, at any point, we can pause or part ways with ease, if our explorations don’t feel alive for either of us.
Pilot month
A simple, low-pressure way to test fit and calibrate the container (rhythm, depth, between-session support, and how we want to work together). At the end of the pilot month, we pause and choose what feels true:
- Continue month-to-month
- Commit to a 3-month or 6-month arc
- Part ways with ease
Rhythms & Rates
Light // Thread (2 sessions/month)
For steadiness and gentle continuity.
Standard $500/m (₹45k) • Supported $400/m (₹35k) • Low-income $300/m (₹25k)
Deep // Journey (3 sessions/month)
For deeper inner work, integration, and practice ecology building.
Standard $750/m (₹70k) • Supported $600/m (₹55k) • Low-income $500/m (₹45k)
This is also the rhythm for the Deepening Self-Intimacy container, which we can weave into our engagement, whenever the timing feels right.
Devotional // Immersion (4 sessions/month)
For a true season of transformation and higher-touch holding.
Standard $1000/m (₹90k) • Supported $850/m (₹80k)
The supported/low-income spots are limited, so I can offer them cleanly and sustainably.
Please let me know what rhythm you’re feeling called to and what feels sustainable, and we’ll start with the pilot month. If you’re unsure, we can feel into it together.
My energy and calendar are organized around prioritizing deeper, ongoing explorations. If you want occasional support, a small number of drop-in session spots remain open (first come, first serve).
Deepening Self-Intimacy
A 1:1 container for learning to hold space for yourself — with more care, creativity, and agency. We meet for three sessions over a month, with continued engagement in between. It’s immersive, collaborative, and shaped by your unique way of being. Less “healing work,” more inner jazz. Playful, rigorous, deeply personal.
Some words from fellow explorers:
- “[…] like spending time with a very knowledgeable and loving best friend”
- “[…] I’ll be able to mine our discussions and supportive materials for further insights for months to come”
- “[…] increased creativity, emotional fluidity, and an increased sense of trust in myself”
- “[…] like a series of mini-psychedelic experiences”
- “[…] he drew on his knowledge and practice to improvise skillfully in each moment.”
- “[…] great balance of knowledge, vulnerability, curiosity, lightness, allowing for your own thing to play out, with great instincts when to offer an insight”
- “[…] my interactions with Theo were always full of care, and I sense that he has a gift for caring”
Read more here: Deepening Self-Intimacy
Longer Sessions and Altered State Explorations
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“Theo is wonderful. He’s a genuine and warm human being who actually cares. And he’s developed that rare expertise—an intuition for what you need to hear, when to push, when to back off.
My 4-hour MDMA session with Theo was expertly guided from start to finish. Even though we worked remotely, he created an incredibly safe container, helping me prepare my physical space and walking me through every aspect of set and setting beforehand. During the session itself, Theo knew when to guide and when to get out of the way. During intense moments, he’d offer just the right prompt to keep me connected to what was happening in my body. When I needed to sit with difficult feelings, he held space without trying to fix anything. And he knew when to cut me off when I started to lose the thread and drift back into my head.”
— Brian
How others describe their time with me
“I find existence hard. My childhood had lots of losses, and my mind is tense in anticipation, scanning for future pain, which is itself an alarming pain, and it all spirals &c &c. I’ve tried many different things to address this. Psychadelics (all kinds), conventional therapy (for years), daily meditation + retreats (for years), thinking a lot (a lot). And all of them helped. But slowly, invisibly, incompletely, dripping well-being on a rough stone. IFS with Theo was my first experience of something demonstrating efficacy *immediately*.
And I was not an easy client. Theo kindly described sessions with me as having “helped him explore his edges”, and that’s being polite and positive. The blunt way of saying it: my mind dodges standard efforts at helping it. I’m a difficult client. And he still taught me IFS with patience and kindness, and it worked. It works still. We did half-a-dozen sessions. They showed me the technique and how to do it myself. My standard day-to-day consciousness now includes IFS, and it’s the first tool I reach for when something goes awry inside. IFS as taught by Theo has gone with me to my MDMA counseling, and did a lot of important load-bearing work there too. Tremendous gratitude!”
— SF
“I was going through the ends of a romantic relationship and regularly feeling despair and hopelessness when I met Theo. During our sessions together, we’d follow whatever thread was alive in my emotional body and–surprise–it usually led to something important… something that I didn’t want to look at. I usually had a big, relieving sob somewhere during our sessions and credit it having a non-trivial impact on my longterm outlook as I healed.
What I liked most about working with Theo were two things. The first was that he was so open and loving. He brought his own mix of modalities to our sessions, but sometimes we’d just talk about concrete next steps or an article with new useful ways of thinking or do a psychedelics-assisted session. I rarely feel this comfortable talking about my feelings with people, especially men, and Theo was embodied such supportive energy.
The second thing was that he was willing to teach me things that I could work with outside our sessions, whether it was repeating the ~IFS/Focusing work on my own or feeling into expressing my anger or noticing when I put myself into an unhealthy victim mindset.”
— Ulysse
“I’d been hoping to try something new after getting fed up with talking my way around my problems in classic talk therapy, and decided to give Theo a shot. It quickly became apparent that *every* session with theo felt like one of those extra-special sessions in “normal” therapy that can take months to work up to – the ones that meaningfully loosen some internal knot or make an unexpected connection. He’s deeply gentle and compassionate, he’s skilled at holding space and pushing just the right amount, and he’s flexible in a way that seems oriented towards actually reducing suffering, increasing joy, and opening up inner worlds. I’ve already recommended him to several friends, especially for anyone interested in digging deeper into self-exploration and how to feel more aliveness. I’m deeply grateful to have found him.
Some side effects:
- theo’s approach has helped my meditation practice deepen – e.g. parts work emerging organically when big feelings come up during practice
- my visual imagination got way stronger and more alive! I never thought of myself as a very visual thinker, but turns out i just hadn’t been practicing
- parts work made me a lot better at communicating in conflict, where previously i’d usually get very foggy and have trouble accessing what i was feeling in the moment
- ngl, I got a bit frustrated with my previous therapists for their highly verbal approaches that kept me limited to what i could access with my more verbal/analytical parts
overall, highly highly recommend giving him a try!”
— Credo
“Over the years I’ve tried many different modalities of therapy and coaching, including IFS with some other practitioners. The truism that the trust between the two people in any modality is the greatest factor in progress has become more obvious to me over these experiences so when I was looking for someone to take me through some major upheavals during and after the pandemic, that intangible quality is what I was looking for. Working with Theo for a couple of sessions felt immediately right. I’ve worked with more “qualified” people who couldn’t hold space as well as Theo, even the challenges of timezone and being remote fell away during our sessions. I feel like his approach of combining IFS, core transformations and other flavours of inner work have resulted in a unique alchemy and have meant I’ve recommended him to multiple friends. I only wish I could have sessions with Theo more regularly, and hope to make that happen when personal circumstances allow!”
— Amir
“I found Theo on Twitter when someone who had worked with him tweeted positively about their experience. I reached out with an unwarranted shyness that was met with warmth, which not only made me comfortable moving forward, but eager. Regarding the sessions themselves, my experience with Theo has been incredible – he’s strikingly good at holding a container that is safe and creative while still fostering a useful focus. My time with Theo has been (and will remain) a crucial complement to other practices, in particular as a device to engage and understand emotional material that otherwise rests unexplored. I recommend that anyone who feels they are ready to explore something new reach out to Theo!”