Not what people assume. There is no requirement to talk about your childhood if that is not what is bothering you, and I am not going to sit in silence waiting for you to produce a feeling.

Sessions are direct. We work out what is actually going on, what you want to be different, and what stands in the way. I will tell you what I think. If something you are doing is making the problem worse, I will say so, and I will not soften it into uselessness.

The work usually covers some combination of the following. What the pressure is costing physically, since it typically shows up in the body before anywhere else. How to handle conflict at home without either shutting down or escalating. What you actually want from the next stretch of your life, which is often a question nobody has asked you since you were twenty-five. And frequently, the patterns you learned early about what a man is supposed to do with difficulty, which for a lot of men amounted to absorbing it and saying nothing.