Some pain isn’t a symptom to fix. It’s a question to sit with. What am I here for? What matters, now that so much has fallen away, or never made sense to begin with? Why keep going?
These conversations draw on the existential tradition: Kierkegaard, Heidegger, de Beauvoir. Not as theory recited at you, but as company. Proof that the discomfort of meaning-making has always been human work, not a malfunction to fix.
This isn’t diagnosis-first. It starts with your actual questions about freedom, isolation, mortality, and meaning, and stays with them long enough for something real to surface instead of rushing toward a resolution that isn’t yours yet.
Sessions in English or Swedish, online or in person in Stockholm. Joakim is currently in formal training in existential and humanistic psychotherapy. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, works as a Compassionate Inquiry™ Practitioner, and is the regional manager at SPUT, a private outpatient psychiatric clinic in Stockholm providing opioid substitution treatment.