The Yellowing Therapist emerged from my own experience of crossing the Midlife threshold; both life-changing and world-shattering, it left nothing untouched, from my relationships to my profession, to my deepest sense of self and life direction.

Around 37, the onset of Midlife from an astro-archetypal perspective, my life began to unravel; long-held, guiding dreams were not materialising, I was outgrowing my decade-long work as an eating disorders therapist but had no idea what I wanted to do next, and a few months later, I experienced the tragic loss of my nephew that threw everything I thought I knew about life and the world to the wind. 

At a time of profound pain, existential anguish and disorientation, I discovered meaning and respite in Alchemy; a tradition I had immersed myself in during my Jungian Psychotherapy training. In the third phase of the alchemical Opus, the yellowing, I discovered a metaphor and a map for the psychospiritual journey of Midlife; a paradoxical time of both decay and illumination, loss and liberation, grief and growth.

I have written extensively about Midlife as the alchemical yellowing on my Substack —you can read more here.

I strongly believe that we get initiated into our Soul’s Work and that the alchemising of our personal odysseys becomes the birthplace of our deepest Contribution. Over the past three years, my cataclysmic initiation into Midlife, interwoven with my Depth Psychology background, has transformed into a body of work that aims to provide a new framework for Midlife as a Rite of Passage into psychospiritual maturity, and guide people through this radical metamorphosis.

The Yellowing Therapist holds a triple meaning: it serves those navigating Midlife (life’s yellowing); it describes the specific type of inner work that moves beyond mainstream psychotherapy and coaching, and which is most relevant for this time of life (embodied depth work / ‘yellowing’ therapy & mentoring); and it speaks to fellow practitioners, and the maturation and evolution (vocational yellowing) of their own Soul-Work.