Loss and grief run through this work, including the losses that accompany changing identities, relationships and ways of belonging.
An Image
A story
A question
Begin with what catches your attention
From attention to exploration
Look closely
What is drawing your attention in this story or image?
Follow the connections
What resonates with experience, and what remains uncertain?
Keep the question open
What changes when we consider the context and other perspectives?
The places that hold us
We depend on people, places and institutions for care, belonging and opportunities to grow: home, education, work, and community.
The Great Mother as a lens
In my jungian reading, this archetype helps us explore the capacity to nurture and protect, but also to restrict, exclude or devour.
What happens when belonging depends on remaining who we are expected to be?
Gothic stories can make these tensions visible.
The Gothic Psyche
A working lens for exploring
relationships between Gothic culture
and lived experience.
Exploratory literature
Reading as a space for investigation, dialogue and discovery.
The ideas behind the approach
These ideas remain in conversation with Gothic studies, depth psychology and cultural analysis
On working with Alicia
Having worked with Alicia, she is an excellent, warm, intuitive mentor who genuinely interacts with students and makes learning a joyful experience. As an interviewer, she has an extensive knowledge of literature and is a joy to work with; she understands the writing process and asks intuitive, interesting questions. I warmly recommend her sessions to anyone who wants to improve their criticality through the study of writing.
Tracy Fahey · Irish Writer and Lecturer
Think, don't repeat
An invitation to examine, connect and ask further questions.
Where would you like to begin
Explore the catacombs
We keep the process flexible, and shape it around your needs.
