Recover, heal, thrive
No longer a ghost in your own life
Narcissistic Abuse Recovery
Counselling for Depression
Rewind Trauma Therapy
Somatic Trauma Therapy
Brainspotting
Bespoke Support
Sharon Nicholson, Registered MBACP, (ACCRED)
your story
Telling our story can be an important part of our healing, but it is just that, a PART of our healing.
The other part of our healing is working with 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 counselling/talking therapies and you didn't feel that they really helped you enough, this could be why.
Nervous System Dysregulation
Our nervous system will become dysregulated when we experience a threatening or overwhelming life event.
If these overwhelming situations are prolonged, ie/ combat, an abusive relationship, serious illness, emotionally unsafe childhood, to name but a few, we experience chronic stress.
The fight/flight, freeze/appease threat responses that we find ourselves stuck in, affect our body, mind and emotional world.
We may feel exhausted, confused, sad, numb, anxious, agitated and even experience memory issues, weight gain, digestive issues and long-term physical conditions.
This is not who we are, it is where we are.
In order to heal and find nervous system regulation, we need to take an intentional, holistic approach, working with our body as well as our mind.
It doesn't matter how long ago your experiences were, it's never too late to start to heal.
Transform Your Life
Do ANY of the following resonate with you?
- You feel haunted by, conflicted or confused about, past experiences or relationships.
- You often feel experiences deeply, feel that you don't matter or that your needs always go missing in relationships or friendships.
- You feel that the version of yourself you used to recognise, or would like to recognise, feels lost somehow, missing, locked away or just out of reach.
- You were a compliant child, trying to be good, even perfect, at all times.
- You felt lost or confused as a child. You may have been blamed for things that weren't your fault. You felt that you weren't good enough.
- You feel numb, empty or disconnected, low in energy and motivation.
- You find yourself constantly people-pleasing, apologising for things that aren't your fault, trying to keep the peace.
- You struggle with feelings of self-doubt, perfectionism, procrastination or imposter syndrome.
- You often experience feelings of anxiety, intolerance, anger or self-criticism.
- You feel a deep sense of loneliness and a need for approval.
- You keep finding yourself in, or drawn towards, unhealthy relationships and fear that you will never break these patterns.
- You suffer with a chronic health condition.
- You have been exposed to a threatening, frightening time in your life that you may not have fully processed.
- You identify as an Empath or a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)
- You feel like a ghost in your own life.
You ARE enough
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.
If this resonates with you, this could now be your opportunity to begin to heal ~ to discover that you really are already enough!
Heal your unseen wounds
If you'd like warm, non-judgemental support to help you to stop self-sabotaging and improve the quality of your life, I'd really love to help you.
Keep reading through my website to see if I may be the right therapist for you, and then when you're ready, just drop me a message through the contact form.
Reclaim Your self to reclaim your Life
TRAUMA - HEALING OUR UNSEEN WOUNDS
TRAUMA - HEALING OUR UNSEEN WOUNDS
TRAUMA - HEALING OUR UNSEEN WOUNDS
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.
We will all respond differently to experiences and what will be trauma for one person, may not be for another.
Left unhealed, our unseen wounds can 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.
We can attend to all of these aspects of our life when we gently attend to our wounds on a somatic, nervous system level.
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.
NARCISSISTIC ABUSE RECOVERY
TRAUMA - HEALING OUR UNSEEN WOUNDS
TRAUMA - HEALING OUR UNSEEN WOUNDS
Narcissistic Abuse is trauma and Complex PTSD is often experienced with such abuse.
We will likely be left feeling disconnected from ourselves, anxious, depressed, lost and powerless.
We may even ask ourselves if we are a narcissist?
Losing our sense of identity has powerful repercussions.
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.
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...or even ourselves.
If you have experienced narcissistic abuse from a parent, these dynamics may feel further complicated.
My experiential approach helps you to understand what has happened to you on a nervous system level and supports your healing through being WITH your experiences, not IN them.
You absolutely deserve to heal.
YOU ARE ALREADY GOOD ENOUGH
HOPE & POST TRAUMATIC GROWTH
HOPE & POST TRAUMATIC GROWTH
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.
You are allowed to be who you really are, not who you feel you should be
HOPE & POST TRAUMATIC GROWTH
HOPE & POST TRAUMATIC GROWTH
HOPE & POST TRAUMATIC GROWTH
Healing will mean different things to different people.
What does healing mean to you?
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!
Contact me if you're ready to take the next step and no longer be a stranger in your own life...
step intO SELF LEADERSHIP
DEEP VALIDATION
Informed by neuroscience, polyvagal theory, nervous system regulation, Transactional Analysis (TA), Inner Child work, the experiential models of Internal Family Systems (IFS), Person-Centred Experiential Counselling for Depression (PCE-CfD) and the neuroexperiential model of a Brainspotting, my compassionate, body, mind, emotion way of working is deeply validating.
ROOT CAUSE RESOLUTION
Explore my specialist trainings and learn how root cause resolution, as well as symptom management, could help you to:
- Understand and manage triggers
- Regulate your nervous system
- Decrease anxiety
- Process unresolved past experiences
- Break trauma bonds
- Free yourself from self-limiting beliefs
- Redefine your narrative
- Stop people-pleasing
- Let go of shame & guilt
- Increase self-compassion
- Increase motivation
- Feel good enough
- Improve physical health
- Seek out healthier relationships
- Write your own future
I offer a free 15 minute clarity call, so when you are ready to take a step towards your personal healing, just complete and submit the contact form and I will email you within 48 hours.
Find Out More
Counselling for Depression
Narcissistic Abuse Recovery
Counselling for Depression
I am a certified Counselling for Depression Practitioner
(PCE-CfD)
A therapy for mild-moderate depression.
Approved by The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) for use in the NHS
Rewind Trauma Therapy
Narcissistic Abuse Recovery
Counselling for Depression
I am a certified Rewind Technique Practitioner
A non-intrusive & highly effective PTSD Trauma Therapy
Approved by the British Psychological Society (BPS)
Narcissistic Abuse Recovery
Narcissistic Abuse Recovery
Narcissistic Abuse Recovery
I have specialist training in Narcissistic Abuse Recovery, along with my own lived experience of this trauma.
Find clarity and nervous system regulation to help free yourself from the trauma bonds that keeps you stuck in patterns of unhealthy relationships.
Brainspotting
I have specialist training in Brainspotting.
Evolved from EMDR, Brainspotting is a mindful, body-brain, somatic therapy. The targeted mindfulness helps identify, process and release underlying trauma and reduce nervous system activation that contributes to anxiety, depression, chronic stress and pain.