Heal deeply, live fully
It's never too late to come home to yourself
Brainspotting Practitioner
BACP Accredited Counsellor
Narcissistic Abuse Specialist ™️
Somatic Trauma-Informed Coach
Brainspotting Practitioner
BACP Accredited Counsellor
Narcissistic Abuse Specialist ™️
Somatic Trauma-Informed Coach
My body-mind sessions go beyond traditional talk therapy, helping you release pain, anxiety and chronic stress through somatic focus.
Specialising in narcissistic abuse and relational trauma, I help heart led people reconnect to who they truly are, and live with a greater capacity for joy and fulfilment.
Our inner wounds can go deep, dysregulating our nervous system and leaving us feeling anxious or disconnected, questioning our own worth and trust in others.
From the shock and fear of sudden bereavement or serious health diagnosis, to the heavy weight of divorce, abuse, and betrayal, my compassionate body-mind sessions focus on helping you release the emotional blocks that continue to hinder your healing, even many years down the line.
You don't have to label your experiences as trauma in order to seek support, and midlife is often a time when unresolved pain can resurface.
No matter what has happened to you, you really do deserve to be living a more meaningful and joy-filled life.
Healing begins with a safe space where your story is honoured and your feelings are understood and met with compassion.
You can talk as little or as much as you like during our sessions together, and they are designed to offer you a deeper healing, addressing themes of Complex trauma and chronic stress that can manifest as anxiety, fatigue, chronic illness, digestive issues and physical pain.
When we add in feeling held back by self-limiting beliefs and weighed down by a lack of confidence, we can see why unresolved trauma really can leave us feeling isolated, stuck in a cycle that's difficult to escape and feeling trapped in personal and professional environments that no longer serve us.
Underpinned by my specialist trainings, I offer the following to help you find your freedom and start living your life on your terms:
Brainspotting - (Evolved from EMDR) Process and release chronic stress, stuck grief, anger, pain, anxiety, low self-worth, improve confidence, performance...and more
Rewind Therapy - Process high levels of anxiety and symptoms of PTSD after a specific traumatic event
Narcissistic Abuse Specialist™️ - Break trauma bonds and process your experiences of Narcissistic Abuse and symptoms of Complex PTSD (within intimate partner relationships, parental or other family members, friends or working relationships)
Midlife - Process the unresolved emotional wounds that can often resurface in midlife
When we are struggling, it can feel like we're fighting an invisible battle every day - We can become battle weary.
Sometimes, despite our best efforts, the weight we carry just feels unshakable. What we may not realise is that unresolved trauma can silently shape our emotions, behaviours and sense of self.
Take a look through this tick list to see if anything resonates with you - take your time and trust your gut feeling as a response to each one:
✅ Have you ever experienced narcissistic abuse, relational or betrayal trauma?
✅ Are you feeling stuck, lost or unfulfilled?
✅️ Do you struggle with self-belief or feel like an imposter, even if you are ambitious or outwardly successful?
✅️ Do you constantly keep yourself busy, throwing yourself into work or mindlessly scrolling on social media or watching TV, avoiding how you truly feel?
✅ Are you procrastinating or holding yourself back from pursuing what truly matters to you?
✅ Are you feeling anxious, overwhelmed or stressed, maybe experiencing a feeling of dread in the mornings, tummy upsets or a familiar knotted feeling in your stomach?
✅️ Are you avoiding places, people, cancelling plans and engagements?
✅️ Do you struggle with sleep or experience frequent nightmares or recurring dreams?
✅ Do you feel like you're a failure, you're not enough or that you don't matter?
✅️ Are you feeling numb or empty, low in energy, disconnected from others or who you feel you used to be?
✅️ Have you been exposed to a deeply impacting or frightening life experience that you just can't seem to move on from?
✅ Are you struggling with brain fog, fatigue, chronic illness, digestive issues or physical pain that you feel could be linked to unresolved trauma?
✅️ Do you struggle with identifying or implementing personal boundaries, avoiding conflict, always doing everything for everyone else, but never really making time for yourself?
✅️ Do you lack a sense of purpose or struggle to find joy in your life?
✅ Are you overly self-critical or suffer with perfectionism?
✅️ Do you feel angry, snappy or irritable very quickly, often over seemingly little things?
✅ Do you recognise self-sabotaging behaviours, such as pushing people away, avoiding intimacy, over-eating or under-eating etc?
✅️ Are you stuck in a career, job or relationship that you know deep down in your soul, isn't healthy or doesn’t fulfil you?
✅️ Do you feel that you are living with symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress or Complex Post Traumatic Stress?
If you've answered 'Yes' to even just ONE of the above, my body-mind sessions could be transformational for you.
"Trauma is not what happens to you; it is what happens inside you as a result of what happened to you..."
~ Gabor Maté
We will ALL experience trauma in our lives, and midlife can also be a particularly vulnerable time for our unseen wounds to resurface, manifesting as:
Despite outward appearances of confidence and success, we can be overly self-critical and silently suffering inside. We may be pushing ourselves to meet our own unrelenting standards, suppressing our emotional needs and consequently feeling that we don't matter, or are not good enough.
Fear is our biggest emotional block to living the life we hope for.
1:1 sessions are limited in my practice, so contact me today it it feels like the right time for you to heal your unseen wounds.
"Brainspotting made a massive difference to my counselling experience and took it to a completely different level"
Your story matters, and talking can often be an important part of our healing process, but on its own, traditional talking therapy is less effective and it can often take a very long time for significant progress to be made.
" Traumatic events are almost impossible to put into words"
~ Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk
To support your deeper, nervous system focused healing, I integrate effective, science backed modalities, including Polyvagal Theory, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Brainspotting, Focusing, Neuroscience and Mindfulness principles.
You can release yourself from feeling:
Unlock your healing
If it's time to stop living a groundhog day, dimming your light for others, playing it small, or staying stuck at a crossroads, feeling overwhelmed or anxious, my powerful body-mind sessions really could be liberating for you.
"... 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..."
~ Anonymised to preserve confidentiality
Click here to read the full review, plus other testimonials
As a Registered and Accredited BACP Therapeutic Counsellor and an ICF Certified Somatic Trauma Informed Coach, my powerfully blended approach as a Therapeutic Coach bridges the gap between trauma recovery and living a more joyful, meaningful life.
As a survivor of complex trauma myself, I’m particularly passionate about helping others find their freedom and healing.
No matter how many years down the line you are, healing from trauma is possible, and you are worthy of living fully.
Professionally qualified
My therapeutic career has been extensive and varied over the last 18+ years, including:
You can learn more about my qualifications & specialist trainings here
There are defining moments in life that feel like a crossroads, an opportunity to take action and make a change.
No life is perfect, but when we process our unresolved experiences at a nervous system level, we really can live our best life.
Contact me today if you're ready to take the next step towards living a better quality of life...
When we experience long-term stress, high levels of cortisol in our bodies leaves us susceptible to a whole range of problems, including:
My body-mind sessions can help you with finding better nervous system regulation, helping to reduce cortisol levels and ultimately releasing you from a place of inner-conflict.
Improve your relationship with yourself.
Do you wish there were parts of yourself that you just didn't have?
There really is a way to find relief from these constant inner conflicts and live with more inner peace and calm.
✅ You’ve spent years putting others first, leaving your own needs on the backburner.
✅ You struggle with inner conflicts, or self-limiting beliefs, about self-worth, confidence, money, success etc.
✅ You’re ready to heal the pain of unresolved trauma and grief, and release inner emotional blocks to help you rediscover your purpose, reignite your passions, and live with more confidence and peace.
✅ You crave more peace, joy, meaning, and fulfilment in your daily life.
✅ You are ready to step into a fuller life, but you feel stuck, trapped, unsure how to break through the inner barriers keeping you from living more fully.
My sessions are NOT for you if:
❌ You are not open to exploring personal growth and change
❌ You are seeking a quick fix or superficial changes
❌ You do not want to explore your body-mind connection
❌ You are currently experiencing acute trauma or emotional crisis
❌ You are experiencing severe mental health issues or you have a diagnosis of a severe and enduring mental health condition (eg psychosis, severe depression, schizophrenia, personality disorders and severe mood disorders, eating disorders)
❌ You have had previous negative experiences to bodywork or somatic practices .
✅ Through a combination of talking, somatic focused healing and trauma-informed practice, you’ll go beyond traditional talk therapy approaches.
✅ Sessions are designed to support your healing at a deep level, reconnecting you with your body’s wisdom, releasing stuck trauma and empowering you to live a life that feels more aligned with who you truly are.
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I am a trained Brainspotting Practitioner ~ to Phase 4
Brainspotting is a deep healing, somatic therapy, supported by scientific evidence.
It's deep, mindful processing releases stress and trauma, without having to relive painful experiences, helping us to find expansion in our lives, 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.
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.
Please fill in the contact form and I will get back to you within 48 hours
Eckhart Tolle
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