online Trauma therapy (uk)
Beyond Survival
Release the echoes of trauma, betrayal and relationships that taught you to question your worth.
Come home to yourself.
Sharon Nicholson
Reg. MBACP (Accred)
Trauma Therapist & Coach
Narcissistic Abuse Specialist™
19+ years of supporting heart-led individuals through profound healing from unresolved trauma
Anxiety
Depression
Relational Trauma
Narcissistic Abuse Recovery
Complex Trauma
Traumatic Grief
Chronic Stress
It's time to find your true freedom
Before we begin...
Trauma takes us out of ourselves and so time alone does not heal.
As you prepare to release what no longer serves you and begin to reconnect with yourself, it may help to know that there are gentle, body-mind-based therapies designed to meet you exactly where you are, without pressure, without forcing anything, and without needing to retell the traumatic story, unless you want to.
This is what I can offer you.
Therapies i offer
All of my therapy sessions are online, across the UK.
Your healing deserves an approach that honours both the wisdom of your body and the tenderness of your inner world.
My work integrates Brainspotting, Rewind Therapy, and an IFS-informed (Internal Family Systems) approach, allowing us to meet you where you are, with depth, safety and compassion.
Therapy with Brainspotting
(Somatic trauma-informed healing)
Evolved out of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) Brainspotting is grounded in neuroscience and somatic practices.
It's a contemporary, compassionate therapy that has fast become my primary way of working, reaching the places talking alone can’t, and helping my clients find true shifts and transformation.
Therapy with Brainspotting is not just about helping you to process and release what feels stuck, it's also deeply expansive, helping you to move towards a future that feels more aligned with your true self.
With the optional addition of listening to bilateral music as you process, Brainspotting can work well for:
- Unresolved childhood wounds
- Chronic anxiety or emotional overwhelm
- “Stuck” trauma responses
- Traumatic grief
- The lasting impact of narcissistic abuse or betrayal
- Creative blocks
- Trauma stored in the body
- Expansion and reconnection to who you truly are
I offer Brainspotting in ongoing therapy sessions and in my Relational Trauma Intensives.
Rewind therapy
(For single event trauma)
Rewind is an evidence-based, highly focused trauma approach that helps take away the emotional charge of a single traumatic event that has remained in your system.
You may have witnessed, heard about or experienced the event first hand:
- A shock
- Accident
- Medical trauma
- Traumatic birth
- Frightening incident
- or another one-off event that still lives in your body, Rewind can offer profound relief from high anxiety or symptoms of PTS (Post Traumatic Stress) - often in just a couple of sessions.
For deeper, developmental, childhood or relational trauma, Brainspotting is usually more appropriate.
Parts-informed therapy
(Working with the parts within you)
It can be helpful to think of ourselves as being made up of different parts, sometimes in harmony, sometimes in conflict.
An IFS-informed approach (Internal Family Systems) allows us to gently meet the protective and younger parts of you that developed strategies like:
- Overthinking
- Shutting down
- People-pleasing
- Perfectionism
- Emotional withdrawal
These parts don’t need fixing.
They need understanding, inclusion, and relief.
Client testimonial
~ Published with consent and anonymised to preserve confidentiality
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The body remembers
You might not call it trauma -
but your body remembers.
Moments when your voice was silenced.
When your needs were dismissed.
When your heart was broken.
When the world shifted in a way you couldn’t prepare for.
As you give space to these inner tensions, and learn to trust yourself again, the parts of you that once hid for protection begin to emerge, ready to create, to dream, to be seen.
Is this where you are?
Do any of the following resonate with you?
- You want to feel like yourself again - to experience joy, lightness, ease.
- You often feel “not enough,” empty, or restless inside.
- You second-guess yourself, replay conversations, or stay stuck despite trying so hard.
- Your body carries tension, fatigue, or stress that talking alone hasn’t relieved.
- Your creativity feels blocked; your accomplishments don’t really land.
- Old patterns keep repeating in relationships or work.
- Small triggers - a glance, a tone of voice, a memory - bring up big feelings.
If this is where you are, you don't have to stay there.
Prioritising yourself after a lifetime of tending to others can feel unfamiliar, even unsafe, but healing is an act of self-compassion.
Showing up for yourself can open a new quality of life.
My approach
I work at the pace your nervous system allows.
For some people, this means steady, ongoing therapy, for others, there comes a point where deeper, more focused processing feels possible.
Healing doesn’t come from pushing yourself - it comes from feeling safe enough to soften.
My approach is:
- Neuroscience-based
- Somatic and body-led
- Gentle but powerful and deeply effective
- Rooted in Brainspotting, IFS, and Polyvagal Theory
Together we create space for:
- Your mind to quieten
- Your body to release what it has held for too long
- The younger parts of you to feel seen and protected
- Your system to move out of survival and into connection
This is attuned, transformative work.
I also offer Relational Trauma Intensives. These are carefully structured, extended sessions designed for you if you feel ready for deeper processing, particularly where trauma has developed through relationships, betrayal, or emotionally harmful dynamics, including narcissistic abuse, where trust, identity, and safety have been deeply affected.
Intensives are offered by recommendation following an initial consultation, to ensure they’re the right fit.
Meet me
Hi, I’m Sharon
Now specialising in trauma-focused therapy, my professional background as a therapist includes:
- Women's Refuge
- Further & Higher Education
- Bereavement Therapy
- 10 years as a BACP Accredited Senior Counsellor & Clinical Supervisor in the NHS, specialising in Counselling for Depression (PCE-CfD).
I support heart-led adults who have spent years being capable, compassionate, and reliable - often the ones everyone turns to - yet who privately feel exhausted, disconnected, or quietly hurting.
I believe deeply that you were never broken.
The patterns you carry were once forms of protection.
They helped you survive.
This work isn’t about changing who you are.
It’s about remembering who you’ve always been.
You are enough.
Client testimonial
~ Published with consent and anonymised to preserve confidentiality
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