The most important thing is curiosity and the ability to listen. An author listens and enquires. A therapist listens and enquires. A Journalist enquires, listens and then questions.

In my life I have had the good fortune to carry out both Plan A, a life as a writer, and Plan B, my mission as a therapist. Moreover, in Finland writers can seldom support themselves by writing literature alone – I have also worked as a journalist since my student days, and have performed various media work both in print media and on the electronic side.

At the moment I am doing digital television talk show Arka paikka (‘A sensitive place’) for the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, where I can get to grips with rewarding topics and interesting people, many of whom are researchers, trail-blazers, and determined pioneers, in many ways wonderful and admirable people. I have again become interested in mastering a new area, in a new medium, digital production.

I believe in life-long, eternal passion, curiosity and learning. To always be ready, always in the middle of things. To be open to learning the new; in the last five years I have also become a student once more and returned to my almer mater, to literature and psychology.

Just now in my life there prevails a wonderfully oscillating synergy. I could describe it perhaps like this: Literature can have the same effect as good therapy. A good dialogical therapy process is a verbal art form.