No longer a ghost in your own life™️
Trauma Therapy ~ Narcissistic Abuse Recovery
Brainspotting
Rewind Therapy (RT)
Counselling for Depression
Narcissistic Abuse Specialist™️
Brainspotting
Rewind Therapy (RT)
Counselling for Depression
Narcissistic Abuse Specialist™️
You deserve to be living, not just existing.
Process unresolved experiences that keep you feeling stuck, burnt out and unfulfilled.
Connect to a sense of meaning and purpose and ultimately increase your capacity for joy.
Together, we can help you to discover what your healing means for you.
Eckhart Tolle
Online Counselling and Trauma Therapy UK
When people first reach out to me, they often tell me that they feel lost, don't know who they are, no longer recognise themselves, have lost themselves in relationships or feel like a shadow of their former self,
"I just want to be me again".
Does this resonate with you?
If so, I'm here to tell you that no matter your experiences, you DO NOT have to live the rest of your life feeling this way.
Awareness gives us choices, but we cannot do everything on our own...even though some of us may try!
Informed by neuroscience, Positive Psychology, Somatic Experiencing, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Compassion Focused Therapy, Person-Centred Experiential Counselling for Depression (PCE-CfD), Eugene Gendler's Focusing, and the body-based, neuroexperiential model of Brainspotting, my compassionate, body, mind, emotion way of working is non-judgemental, trauma-informed and deeply validating.
Explore some of the specialist trainings I have undertaken, all informing my work to help you:
Together, we can help you to discover your own capacity to heal your inner wounds...you are worthy of so much more than you may realise!
When we go through overwhelming, deeply impacting experiences and end up feeling stressed and burnt out, we cannot just think our way out.
Telling our story in a safe space can be an important part of our healing, but because of the way that our brain processes these experiences, we don't always have the words.
So using our voice is just that, a PART of our healing.
The other part of our healing is working with the rest of our body's story.
What has happened to us somatically?
What are we still holding?
What does our nervous system still need to release?
If you have had previous talking therapies or coaching, and you feel that they didn't really help you enough long-term, this could be why.
If this has been your experience, you DO NOT have to stay stuck and burnt out.
It doesn't matter how long ago your experiences were, it's never too late to start to heal.
Working more deeply with what your body may still be holding can be a truly liberating process.
Trauma, derived from the Greek word for 'wound', is not just about what happened to us.
Trauma is something that happens inside of us because of the overwhelming event or events we were exposed to.
Trauma affects us body, mind and soul, and can affect anyone.
In all likelihood, we will ALL have experienced some kind of trauma in our lives.
Despite outward appearances, we can be silently suffering and feel that we are not important, a failure or 'not good enough'.
When we are triggered in this way, we are actually experiencing an invisible wound.
Left unhealed, our unseen wounds can unconsciously affect our lives in many ways, including our beliefs about ourselves, the relationships we end up in, our work, parenting and even our physical health.
Understanding more about the different parts of ourselves, our nervous system responses and how to regulate and find balance, can be transformational.
You deserve to feel safe enough to be seen and heard.
If you have experienced Narcissistic Abuse, you have experienced trauma.
Complex PTSD is commonly experienced as a result of such abuse and we can be left with feelings of worthlessness, shame and guilt. We may even be left worrying that we are a narcissist.
Our emotional wounds may not be visible, but the silent pain we suffer as a result of these is very real.
Your experiences DO NOT define you as a person and when we feel safe enough to do so, we can reconnect to our true selves...it may even feel like this is for the very first time.
There will be a grieving process with the ending of any relationship, but with the ending of an abusive relationship, this process can be more complicated, more intense and all-consuming.
The pull to return to the abusive relationship can be very powerful at times, and seldom understood by those around us...and maybe even ourselves.
If you have experienced narcissistic abuse from a partner, parent, caregiver, friend, co-worker, or within any other relationship, I see you.
My non-judgemental, specialist, trauma-informed approach supports your deep healing for sustainable, pattern-breaking change.
You did not deserve what happened to you
What happened to you was not your fault.
There can be a particularly painful loneliness that comes with not feeling understood, seen or heard, especially by those closest to us.
Recognising how you have courageously and creatively navigated your way through life gives you the opportunity to improve the relationship you have with yourself...and ultimately improve other areas of your life too.
We really can unlock our power to move from self-critical to self-compassionate ~ an unfamiliar place to many of us if we have experienced trauma.
Everyone deserves the chance to heal.
Healing will mean different things to different people.
We can't change what has already happened, but when we are intentional with our personal healing, we can change the pain and experiences associated with the memories.
It may not feel like it right now, but you have the power to live a better quality of life.
The intergenerational impact of your intentional healing means that you not only heal yourself when you become a pattern breaker, you heal future generations too!
Arguably, there is no greater gift to give to not only yourself, but also to others.
Contact me if you're ready to take the next step and no longer be a stranger in your own life...
I am a certified Counselling for Depression practitioner and Supervisor
(PCE-CfD)
A therapy for mild-moderate depression.
Approved by The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) for use in the NHS
I am a fully trained Rewind Therapy (RT) practitioner
A non-intrusive & highly effective PTSD Trauma Therapy
Approved by the British Psychological Society (BPS)
I am a certified Narcissistic Abuse Specialist ™️
Find clarity and nervous system regulation to help free yourself from the trauma bonds that keep you stuck in patterns of unhealthy relationships.
I am a full trained Brainspotting practitioner
- Phase 4
Evolved from EMDR, this body-based, targeted mindfulness therapy can be effectively used with experiences of trauma, anxiety, depression, chronic health conditions and to help us to feel more resilient, empowered and less stuck.
Please fill in the contact form and I will get back to you within 48 hours
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