About

I’m Aleye

I’m curious by nature. About people, mostly. Why we do what we do, how we become who we are, and why two people can live through the same thing and come away with completely different stories about it.

I notice things. I ask questions. I have a habit of taking a perfectly ordinary observation and dwelling on it longer than necessary. Occasionally, something useful comes out of it. Other times I end up with more questions.

That curiosity shows up in my professional life too. With a background in psychology and training as a therapeutic counsellor, I spend a lot of time thinking about how our experiences shape us, the patterns we fall into, and what happens when the ways we’ve learned to navigate life no longer quite fit.

I read a lot, usually with several books on the go because committing to one at a time feels unnecessarily restrictive.

I like conversations that go somewhere, the kind that start with one thing and somehow end up three topics away, with both people wondering how they got there. I like a bit of depth, but I’m suspicious of unnecessary seriousness. There’s usually room for humour.

I like quiet. I enjoy people who make me think, and I’m comfortable saying I don’t know. I’m also quite happy to change my mind when I discover I was wrong.

Anyway, hello!