Hi, I’m KENNY.
I work with people who are thoughtful, capable, and often outwardly successful and who, nonetheless, find themselves stuck in patterns that don’t make sense to them.
My work sits at the intersection of depth psychotherapy, shadow work, and real-world systems; particularly work, leadership, and organisations. I’m interested in what drives human behaviour beneath the surface, and in how unseen inner dynamics shape our relationships, decisions, and cultures.
In shadow work, nothing is treated as accidental or meaningless, including behaviours you may judge or dislike about yourself.
Rather than asking “Why am I like this?” we ask “What is this part trying to protect?”
We approach the psyche as an internal system made up of different parts, each with its own history, logic, and role. Even the most disruptive patterns once served a purpose. When those parts are understood and brought back into relationship with the whole, their grip begins to soften.
HOW I CAME TO THIS WORK
Like many people drawn to depth work, my path here wasn’t linear.
I’ve spent much of my life watching intelligent, well-intentioned people — including myself — act against their own values, repeat patterns they claimed to want to leave behind, and struggle in ways that weren’t visible from the outside.
Over time, it became clear that insight alone wasn’t enough. Nor was willpower, strategy, or positive thinking. What was missing was a way of understanding why these patterns existed — and how they were trying, however clumsily, to protect something vulnerable.
That inquiry led me into shadow work, parts work, and depth psychotherapy — not as abstract ideas, but as lived, relational processes.
HOW I WORK
My work is grounded in the principles of shadow work.
At its core, shadow work starts from a simple truth: we are shaped as much by what we had to hide as by what we were allowed to express.
From an early age, each of us learned - consciously and unconsciously - which feelings, needs, impulses, and qualities were welcome, and which were not. The parts of us that didn’t fit were not destroyed; they were pushed out of awareness. They became shadow.
These shadow parts continue to influence us. They surface indirectly through patterns, emotional reactions, compulsions, avoidance, conflict, and self-sabotage. In other words, they speak through behaviour when they are not listened to directly.
In our work together, we explore these parts with curiosity, respect, acceptance and care.
Our lives are shaped not by what we intend, but by what remains unconscious.
James Hollis