Counsellor
Spiritual & Life Mentor
Questioning your ancestral religious background?
Why Yevrah
Blending traditional counselling with a spiritual perspective, I offer a compassionate, non-judgemental, and safe space to explore your beliefs and discover deeper peace, security, and meaning in life.
I am especially passionate about supporting those who are questioning their religious background and who may be noticing the influence of ancestral or inherited trauma in their lives.
Ancestral Trauma
Every one of your thousands of ancestors was a survivor—an overcomer of their own circumstances. Yet survival often came at a cost, and many developed trauma-based patterns in their thoughts, emotions, and behaviour. Passed down through generations, these patterns can show up today as depression, anxiety, addiction, social fear, or violence. Recognising this history removes the need for blame—of yourself or others—and opens the door to understanding and healing. If you’ve read this far, you may already feel a quiet sense of relief. Your struggles are not signs of personal failure. You are not broken. You are a beautiful soul, ready to heal and to flourish.
Religious Trauma
Religion can meet deep human needs, such as belonging, moral guidance, purpose, and comfort around death. In this sense, it can be a healthy and supportive force. However, it can also foster a narrow view of human existence, promote fear, impose social restrictions, or even enable harmful and criminal behaviour. In these cases, it becomes unhealthy. If you are connected to a religion but feel obligated to participate—whether due to social pressure, fear of leaving, threats of ostracism, eternal punishment, financial demands, or fear of the world outside—it is possible that you are experiencing spiritual coercion. Feeling pressured or trapped is not a normal or healthy aspect of spirituality. Meaning and spiritual fulfillment can be found both within religion and beyond it.
Spirituality & Religion
If you are connected to a particular religion, you may naturally assume that your spiritual experiences belong exclusively to that tradition. Yet people across many different religions report remarkably similar spiritual experiences—and so do many individuals who are not religious at all. This suggests that spiritual experience is not dependent on belonging to any specific religion, but is instead a shared aspect of being human. Spiritual experiences enrich human life. They expand our understanding of the human condition and nurture compassion, empathy, and love—both within ourselves and across cultures, races, and the full diversity of human existence.
Working With Me
As a qualified counsellor and guide on this path of life, I offer a space to be heard. I listen to your challenges and questions, and support you in discovering new perspectives, grounding, purpose, and peace. My intention is to help you develop a healthy, fulfilling spirituality that is truly your own. I don’t follow fixed modalities, as I believe exploration, reflection, and personal discernment are essential parts of the journey. Together, we find what resonates, try what feels right, and learn from the process. We work collaboratively, taking each session as it unfolds and helping you find your footing along the way.
Lived Experience
My name is Harvey Weeks. I was born into a high-control fundamentalist Christian group and inherited a worldview I later came to question deeply. My journey has led me from a life shaped by coercion and guilt to one grounded in freedom and peace. It is a privilege to support others who are walking a similar path of questioning and discovery. As a trained therapist, I do not steer anyone toward or away from religion. The insights and choices you arrive at are the ones that matter most—because they are yours.
A Paradigm Shift
Have you ever crossed a quiet threshold—one where the world suddenly reveals itself differently, and there is no returning to the way you once saw it? We move through life guided by unseen assumptions, shaped gently and persistently by the places, cultures, and conditions that raised us. These beliefs are not enemies to be judged; often they have sheltered us, offering structure, certainty, and a sense of belonging. Yet there is a quiet power in turning toward them with awareness. When your deepest assumptions come into view, you gain the freedom to choose: to keep them, to release them, or to let something new take root. Imagine someone taught that happiness lives in possessions, achievement, or approval—only to awaken one day to the discovery that joy has always lived within. Such awakenings are paradigm shifts. I invite you to seek them out, to welcome them. They open doors to vast inner landscapes you may never have dared to imagine—or were never given permission to dream of at all.