Somatic trauma-informed therapy and coaching
NO LONGER A GHOST IN YOUR OWN LIFE®️
Brainspotting
Trauma Therapist
ICF Certified Coach
Rewind Therapy (RT)
BACP Accredited Counsellor
Brainspotting
Trauma Therapist
ICF Certified Coach
Rewind Therapy (RT)
BACP Accredited Counsellor
Eckhart Tolle
Burnout isn't just about being overwhelmed by work; it's often a result of unresolved stress and unhealed trauma or years of pushing beyond your limits.
Most of us live in our heads, thinking and planning and often just trying to get through day-to-day, but stuck, emotional pain lives in our bodies, silently shaping our thoughts, emotions, our sense of who we are, and even our physical health.
If you're the strong one, the high achiever, the one who never lets it show, burnout can feel like a personal failure, but it's not - it signals misalignment and can create space and opportunity for deeper wisdom, insight and transformation.
Whether you're looking to heal from painful experiences or release the self-limiting beliefs and blocks that are stopping you living a more aligned life, my powerfully effective, body-mind approach could help you.
Let's take a look at what's happening for you and whether therapy or coaching would best suit your circumstances ...
Healing starts from within
Whether as a result of a single event, or the slow unravelling of trust in an antagonistic relationship, trauma can feel like a weight we carry everywhere, holding us back in life.
As a trauma therapist, I work with individuals carrying unresolved emotional pain. This work is about more than just talking — it’s about root cause resolution, truly processing what your body has been holding, creating space for deep healing, and restoring balance at your own pace.
These wounds don’t just live in our minds—they settle deep within, shaping how we connect with others and ourselves, preventing us from living fully in the present.
Through a somatic trauma-informed approach to our therapy sessions, including gentle yet powerful Brainspotting, together we can help you heal from past experiences and reconnect with yourself in the present - so you can finally breathe, rest, and feel whole again.
Do any of the following resonate with you?
Emotional & Mental Overload
Physical Symptoms of Stress
Behavioural Struggles
If you see yourself in any of these signs, it could be an indication that your body and mind are asking for healing.
This isn’t just about managing symptoms; it’s about root-cause resolution.
It's never too late to heal
My personalised therapy sessions are booked as individual sessions and are designed to fit your needs:
Don't let fear hold you back
There’s a quiet whisper inside you—a calling.
A vision, a creative spark, a passion project that you keep coming back to.
You know, deep down, you’re meant for something more.
Something that feels real and aligned with who you truly are.
But bringing it to life—or simply staying with it—can feel overwhelming.
As a somatic, trauma-informed coach, I support heart-led creatives, professionals, and visionaries who are struggling with self-doubt, imposter syndrome, or fear of not being enough.
This is where the deeper work begins. Not with another plan or productivity hack—but with you.
When you slow down and reconnect with your inner voice, when you tend to your nervous system and release what no longer serves you, something shifts.
Clarity comes. Confidence returns. You start to move forward in ways that feel steady, authentic, true to who you really are.
Your vision deserves to grow—and so do you.
How I Support You
I bring together somatic trauma-informed coaching and Brainspotting—a powerful, yet gentle focused mindfulness that works with your nervous system to help you access and release the deeper layers of stress, fear, self-doubt, and limiting beliefs.
These aren’t just thoughts—they’re felt experiences stored in the body.
Whether it’s fear of failure, visibility blocks, perfectionism, or old stories that make you question your worth, we meet and release them together—with compassion.
This is a space where you don’t have to force, fix, or figure it all out alone.
You can learn to trust yourself, to take aligned, heart-led action—not from urgency, but from a grounded place of calm knowing.
When your inner world softens and shifts, your outer world naturally begins to align.
About you...
You feel deeply. You think deeply. And you want to create something that matters.
You’ve navigated tough times, supported others, and worked hard to keep things together. You may look like a high achiever on the outside, but inside, you carry lived experience: adversity, burnout, reinvention.
And now, you’re ready for something more.
Not just success, but meaning.
Not just growth, but alignment.
A path that reflects who you are now—not who the world once told you to be.
This space is for you if:
This isn't about starting from scratch, this is about starting from wisdom.
One step at a time
My personalised coaching packages are designed to fit your unique needs:
There are definite crossovers between therapy and coaching, so if you're unsure which would best suit you, keep reading for more information, or just send me a message and we can a book your free clarity call to help us decide together.
You’re deeply intuitive, heart-led and empathic, and you have spent years prioritising others—whether in relationships, family, or work—while losing touch with yourself.
Maybe you’ve endured painful relationships that left you questioning your worth. Perhaps you’re navigating a difficult life transition, feeling trapped in a career that drains you. Or you’re following your heart, trying to build something meaningful, with purpose, but keep hitting invisible walls of self-doubt, procrastination, or burnout.
This is not your fault.
Our brains are wired for safety, not happiness or success, and subconscious patterns can keep us stuck—no matter how much we logically want to move forward.
Whether you seek therapy for healing or coaching for momentum, we’ll work together to gently break through these blocks, release stress, rebuild confidence, and help you reclaim your identity—so you can finally create a life that feels truly yours.
"I don’t know where I would be without these sessions.
Best decision I’ve ever made. Thank you!!"
~ Published with consent and anonymised to preserve confidentiality
I know what it’s like to feel stuck—mentally exhausted, emotionally overwhelmed, and no matter how much you try to “push through,” you’re constantly running on empty.
For years, I didn’t realise that what I was experiencing wasn’t just stress—it was burnout rooted in unresolved trauma.
Layers of people-pleasing, perfectionism, and self-doubt had quietly taken hold. I kept showing up, performing, achieving—but inside, I felt numb, disconnected, and like I was living someone else’s life.
Later, even when things looked “successful” from the outside, I found myself in a role that drained me—a slow erosion of energy and purpose that I couldn’t seem to walk away from. I was constantly second-guessing myself, over-functioning, and silencing the quiet voice inside that was trying to tell me something wasn’t right.
Different situations, same nervous system patterns: emotional exhaustion, imposter syndrome, chronic tension, and a haunting inner conflict between staying safe and setting myself free.
I knew something needed to change, but I couldn’t find the capacity to take action. And that’s the trap of trauma-fueled burnout—it’s not just psychological, it’s physiological.
Time alone doesn’t heal, and trying to think or work our way out of burnout only deepens the cycle.
What changed everything for me was learning how to work with my body—not against it. Discovering somatic and nervous system-aligned approaches like Brainspotting helped me begin to release the deeper survival patterns that were keeping me stuck. I was finally able to reclaim my energy, boundaries, and sense of self—not just mentally, but physically and emotionally too.
This is why I’m so passionate about helping others prevent burnout—not just to survive, but to come home to themselves.
If you’re feeling stuck, please know this: there is nothing wrong with you, and you don’t have to figure it out alone. Whether you need burnout recovery therapy, stress and trauma therapy, or a coaching approach to help you move forwards, with the right support, healing is possible.
As a trauma therapist and somatic trauma informed coach, I have the absolute privilege of helping others find their deep healing and reclaim their lives, and my extensive specialist trainings allow me to offer you some of the most effective ways to do this.
I integrate gentle, but powerful Brainspotting sessions into both my therapy and coaching work—a neuroscience-aligned approach that mindfully reaches the places that talking sessions alone cannot, releasing trauma, chronic stress and limiting beliefs stored deep in the body.
When combined with my holistic, evidence-based approaches, together, we don't just help you to understand your past—we help you break free from it and step more fully into the life you want to create.
You don’t have to keep reliving the same patterns. Transformation through somatic trauma-informed coaching, burnout recovery therapy or stress and trauma therapy really is possible, and I’m here to gently guide you through.
I established my private practice in 2007, and this has complimented my therapeutic career over the last 18+ years, including:
Informed by Neuroscience ~ Positive Psychology ~ Somatic Experiencing ~ Focusing-Oriented Therapy ~ Internal Family Systems (IFS) ~ Compassion Focused Therapy ~ Person-Centred Counselling for Depression (PCE-CfD), Rewind Therapy (RT), and the Neuroexperiential model of Brainspotting, my compassionate approach is gentle, powerful, non-judgemental and deeply validating.
You can learn more about my specialist trainings here
"... I felt listened to, heard and deeply understood, which I have not had much experience of in my life. I have found this experience very validating and confidence building...
...Our sessions have been life transforming for me, I feel like I have fast tracked out of many years living in a painful freeze state, not knowing how to move, where to move or what or who to trust..."
~ Published with consent and anonymised to preserve confidentiality
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I am a trained Brainspotting Practitioner ~ Phase 4
Brainspotting is gentle but powerful, deep healing, and effective in offering you support to find better nervous system regulation, burnout recovery therapy and stress and trauma therapy
It's focused mindful processing releases stress and trauma, without having to relive painful experiences, helping us to find expansion in our lives, both personally and professionally.
I am a Certified Rewind Therapy Practitioner
Rewind Therapy is an imaginal, highly effective trauma therapy for symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Traumatic events can be processed without having to disclose details.
Approved by the British Psychological Society (BPS)
I am an ICF Certified Narcissistic Trauma Informed Coach and a Narcissistic Abuse Specialist ™
We need more than talking and time to heal from trauma, it is vital that we also connect to our bodies.
You have the right to heal, to reconnect to who you truly are and become unapologetically you.
I am a BACP Registered & Accredited Therapeutic Counsellor
(British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy)
Therapy focuses on emotional healing, past experiences, and mental well-being. As a trauma therapist, I support clients in processing emotions, resolving trauma, and improving overall psychological health. Therapy can explore dee
I am a BACP Registered & Accredited Therapeutic Counsellor
(British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy)
Therapy focuses on emotional healing, past experiences, and mental well-being. As a trauma therapist, I support clients in processing emotions, resolving trauma, and improving overall psychological health. Therapy can explore deeper emotional patterns, whereas coaching focuses more on action and future growth.
I am an ICF Certified Somatic Trauma Informed Coach
(International Coaching Federation)
Coaching is a future-focused, goal-oriented process designed to help you unlock potential, build resilience, and create meaningful change. As a coach, I help you develop self-awareness, release limiting beliefs, and take action toward your goals. Coachin
I am an ICF Certified Somatic Trauma Informed Coach
(International Coaching Federation)
Coaching is a future-focused, goal-oriented process designed to help you unlock potential, build resilience, and create meaningful change. As a coach, I help you develop self-awareness, release limiting beliefs, and take action toward your goals. Coaching is not therapy and does not address mental health conditions or trauma healing.
Simply fill in the contact form with your enquiry and I look forward to connecting with you soon Warmly Sharon
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