no longer a ghost in your own life®️
Online trauma therapy across the UK
Trauma Therapist
ICF Certified Coach
Brainspotting Practitioner
BACP Accredited Counsellor
Narcissistic Abuse Specialist ™️
Your deep healing: anxiety, burnout, and trauma release
Welcome.
I’m Sharon Nicholson - a BACP registered and accredited therapist offering online trauma therapy across the UK. I work with intuitive, deep-feeling individuals using trauma-informed therapy and Brainspotting to gently support healing at the root.
I specialise in helping high-achieving professionals, even if you don’t always see yourself that way, find freedom from anxiety and burnout, self-doubt, and the lasting effects of trauma, especially within narcissistic abuse recovery.
If you tend to feel deeply, quietly carry the weight of high expectations, strive for excellence, or simply push through when things get hard… you’re not alone, and you’re in the right place.
Whatever the shape or story, however long ago it was, emotional pain leaves an imprint. It can show up in our body, our thoughts, our relationships, or simply in the way we move through the world.
Trauma therapy isn’t about fixing you; you are not broken. This is about deep healing, going beyond words, meeting the parts of you that haven't been given the space to be heard, felt, or witnessed, so that they have the chance to release what they are holding.
You deserve a life that feels whole.
Unlock deep, lasting change
With over 19 years experience as a qualified therapist, including 10 years as a Senior Counsellor in the NHS, specialising in Counselling for Depression, I now offer specialist online trauma therapy across the UK.
Brainspotting is a cutting-edge, gentle, yet highly effective therapy at the heart of my practice, helping uncover and heal the deeper roots of emotional pain, not just the surface symptoms.
I absolutely love offering this modality to my clients because I've both seen and experienced first hand, how powerful it can be.
Healing through Brainspotting allows us to reprocess these distressing experiences so we can release ourselves from the grip of chronic self-doubt, imposter-syndrome, low self-esteem, anxiety and burnout, depression, or PTSD-like symptoms, and increase our capacity to be present and experience more meaning and joy in our lives.
With Brainspotting, you don’t need to relive the past in order to heal from it. Together, we’ll create a safe, grounded space for your nervous system to do what it’s wired to do: find relief, integration, and true, lasting change.
Sharon Nicholson, MBACP, Accred
Specialties
Trauma Therapy with Brainspotting (UK)
Evolved from EMDR & somatic therapy practices to help you find your deeper healing
- High-functioning individuals who feel stuck
- Anxiety and Burnout
- Relational & Betrayal Trauma
- Narcissistic Abuse Recovery
- Childhood Trauma / CPTSD
- Grief & Profound Loss
client testimonial
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You’re not broken—you’re at a turning point.
People seek therapy at different times for different reasons.
For many, emotional overwhelm, anxiety and burnout can feel like the breaking point, not just burnout from work, but from years of holding everything together. Unresolved stress, unspoken trauma, and a lifetime of pushing past limits catches up.
Feeling overwhelmed or burnt out can feel like a personal failure, but it’s not. It’s a signal of misalignment and an invitation for care, attention and for a return to what's true.
It's the beginning of healing, of reconnection.
We’ll gently listen to what your body has held for too long. We’ll untangle the perfectionism, the people-pleasing, the grief and fear beneath the surface, not to relive it, but to release it, so you can have the opportunity to finally rest and feel safe to just be yourself.
Trauma therapy can help you create a life more aligned with who you truly are.
Reclaim your life
"Trauma is not what happens to you, trauma is what happens inside you as a result of what happens to you".
~ Gabor Mate
It is likely that we will all experience trauma of some kind in our lives; we can't avoid experiencing emotional pain, but we can reduce our suffering by choosing how we respond to it, and we do not have to do it alone.
You’re welcome to book a free 20-minute consultation to see if this feels like the right fit. We’ll talk, no pressure; just a quiet space to ask questions and get a feel for how we might work together.
You deserve to heal.
Client Testimonial
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Your experiences
I work well with individuals who...
- Are ready for a deeper healing, may have tried other therapies previously, but didn't find it was enough to make a lasting difference.
- Are caught up in frustrating cycles, like self-doubt, overthinking, people-pleasing, perfectionism, procrastination, self-criticism...
- Feel stuck in anxiety and burnout, on edge or numb, fatigued and disconnected.
- Might be walking on eggshells around someone in their life, seeking narcissistic abuse recovery, or simply feel lost, like a shadow of their former self.
- May feel unseen, unheard, and that they are not enough.
- May have a tendency to just carry on pushing through, quietly, on their own.
- May have experienced painful, confusing relationships, and struggle to make sense of them.
- Feel that their past experiences could still be negatively impacting their lives.
- Might be quiet, high achievers; outwardly successful, showing up for everyone else, while quietly wondering when it will feel safe to show up for themselves.
- Are creative, curious, intuitive, and want to understand themselves on a deeper level.
- Have a sense that painful experiences don't just stay in our thoughts, they are something we also feel in our body, our emotions, our spirit.
- Want more than just “getting by”, they long to feel more joy, meaning, and authentic, aligned connection in their lives.
- Want to reconnect with their sense of vitality and energy.
- Are open to exploring their body-mind connection so they can feel more whole, more connected to who they truly are.
If you're unsure if now is the right time for you, perhaps ask yourself,
"What will it cost me to stay where I am?" ~ What was your instinctive response?
If you'd like to chat things through, to help you decide if my trauma therapy sessions could be helpful for you, just fill in the contact form and we can schedule a clarity call together.
Please note, my sessions are not suitable for you if you are experiencing acute distress as I do not offer a crisis service.
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