RECLAIM YOUR PASSION, YOUR PURPOSE & YOUR PEACE
NO LONGER A GHOST IN YOUR OWN LIFE®️
Trauma Therapist
BACP Accredited Counsellor
Somatic Trauma-Informed Coach
A powerful body-mind approach to taking back your life
You’ve always held it together—calm, capable, strong, quietly achieving, outwardly successful, but inside, you’re worn out, anxious, like you’re always bracing for something, stuck in a loop you can't seem to break.
Maybe there was a clear betrayal. Maybe it was subtle—years of being unseen, unheard, or putting yourself last. You might not call it trauma, but your body does. It remembers.
Without realising, you’ve learned to stay small, to please, to stay safe, but now, you’re ready for something different.
You're ready to process and release what's truly keeping you stuck.
You're ready to feel safe in your body. To understand and speak your truth. To stop surviving and start being.
This isn’t about fixing you. It’s about coming home to yourself.
This is your turning point.
Sharon Nicholson, MBACP, Accred
Specialties
Trauma Therapy | Brainspotting
Betrayal Trauma | Antagonistic Relationship & Narcissistic Abuse Recovery | Stress | Burnout
You are already enough
Sometimes it’s a single moment that turns your world upside down; a loss, a diagnosis, a betrayal, other times, it’s the quiet build-up of pain over the years; relationships that left you questioning your worth, moments of hurt no one saw, emotions you were taught to hide.
Whatever the shape or story, however long ago it was, emotional pain leaves an imprint. It can show up in your body, your thoughts, your relationships, or simply in the way you move through the world
- Trauma has no sense of time.
reclaim your life
People usually find me when they're ready for change. When they're ready to go deep and heal at the source of what's been holding them back and keeping them stuck. When they're ready to heal and reclaim their life.
We’ll gently listen to what your body has held for too long. We don't always need words. 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, feel safe, and come home to who you truly are.
You’re not broken—you’re at a turning point.
People seek therapy at different times for different reasons.
For many, emotional overwhelm or burnout is 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, of coming home to yourself.
Transformational body-mind focused therapy
When our experiences have hit hard, we often need a little bit more than just traditional talk therapy, and so alongside talking, I offer body-mind practices of Brainspotting and Focusing to enhance your healing process and help your body to find some calm.
Brainspotting is a form of focused mindfulness, targeting deeply rooted issues in the brain and body that might take a long time get to in traditional talk therapy, if at all.
Focusing is a gentle, body-based practice that helps you tune into a deeper inner sense of knowing. It supports emotional clarity, healing, and personal insight by guiding attention to what's just beneath the surface.
These intuitive, experiential sessions are designed to help you release emotional weight and calm your nervous system. We’ll focus on what’s stuck, not to relive it, but to help it shift—so you can begin to feel more present, more grounded, and more you.
ready to begin?
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.
If something in you is saying it’s time to feel lighter, calmer, create space for more joy, or to feel more like yourself again—I’m here to support you in coming home home to yourself. You don’t have to have the right words or a clear plan. Just a willingness to take the first step.
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.
Your experiences
I work well with individuals who...
- Are ready for a deeper healing. May have tried talking therapy previously, but didn't find it was enough to make a sustainable difference.
- Are caught up in frustrating cycles, like self-doubt, overthinking, people-pleasing, perfectionism, procrastination, self-criticism...
- Feel stuck, anxious and on edge or numb, fatigued and disconnected.
- Might be walking on eggshells around someone in their life, or feeling 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, 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.
- Are open to exploring their body-mind connection so they can feel more whole, more like themselves again.
Healing isn’t about “fixing” you—because you’re not broken. It’s about meeting the parts of you that haven't been given the space to be heard, felt, or witnessed, so that they can release what they are holding.
Coming home to myself
I know how hard some life experiences can hit, the conflicting thoughts and painful, tangled feelings that can arise, the physical impact and the deep level of loneliness that can be felt.
Like so many others, I have experienced painful experiences and trauma in my life, including the trauma of narcissistic abuse. Living with a chronic health condition, I deeply appreciate the contentious relationship that we can have with diagnosis, our bodies, with others and with our ourselves as we learn to take back our lives.
I know the desire to do it all ourselves, to figure it out quietly, to not need anyone, but no matter how hard any of us try, we cannot do it alone.
This is why I’m so passionate about the work I do. Healing asks for honesty, tenderness, and the kind of permission we rarely get—full permission to feel what we actually feel, even when it's messy or doesn't make sense.
As a body-mind focused therapist with over 19 years experience with working with a diverse range of clients, including 10 years in the NHS specialising in Counselling for Depression, I've trained extensively to bring you the some of the most effective therapies for healing our inner wounds.
I love to offer Brainspotting to my clients because I've seen how powerful it can be in helping us to find our way out of cycles we've become stuck in and release what feels so heavy; what's often been too overwhelming to name.
When we are seeking healing from deeply impacting life experiences, an experiential, holistic approach can be transformational.
If now feels like the right time for you to make changes in your life, just fill in the contact form and we can schedule a relaxed chat to help you take the next steps.
My Qualifications
There is no one-size-fits-all therapy, so you get to choose the therapist and the approach that feels right for you.
My aim is to meet you exactly where you are, helping you to become curious and self-compassionate as you find ways to make the shifts you need.
My practice is informed by Neuroscience ~ Positive Psychology ~ Focusing ~ 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 person-centred, collaborative and deeply validating.
Professional Qualifications:
- Brainspotting Practioner - Phase 4
- Narcissistic Trauma Informed Coach
- Complex Trauma Certification Training Levels 1 & 2 (CCTP / CCTP - II )
- Narcissistic Abuse Specialist ™️
- Somatic Trauma Informed Coach ™️
- Rewind Technique Practitioner
- Bereavement Counsellor
- Online and Telephone Counsellor
- Person-Centred Experiential Counselling for Depression Supervisor (PCE-CfD)
- Person-Centred Experiential Counselling for Depression Practitioner (PCE-CfD)
- Advanced Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling
You can see more of my specialist trainings here
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Brainspotting
Narcissistic Abuse Recovery
Narcissistic Abuse Recovery
I am a trained Brainspotting Practitioner ~ Phase 4
Brainspotting evolved from EMDR and is a gentle yet powerful modality that helps us heal deeply, supporting better nervous system regulation, stress relief, trauma recovery, and burnout support.
It can help create space for growth and balance in both your personal and professional life.
Narcissistic Abuse Recovery
Narcissistic Abuse Recovery
Narcissistic Abuse Recovery
I am an ICF Certified Narcissistic Trauma Informed Coach and a Narcissistic Abuse Specialist ™
Narcissistic abuse is trauma, and we need more than talking and time to heal from trauma; it also means reconnecting to our bodies.
You deserve to heal, to reconnect to who you truly are and to live fully and unapologetically as you are.
Betrayal Trauma
Stress & Burnout
Stress & Burnout
Healing the pain of betrayal
Betrayal trauma can result from broken trust not only in intimate relationships, but also with parents, friends, a community, and many other relationships where we relied on that person for safety, love or support.
You deserve to release the pain you still carry, you deserved better.
Stress & Burnout
Stress & Burnout
Stress & Burnout
Finding your way out of overwhelm
Chronic stress and burnout can affect our mood, energy, relationships and daily life. We will likely be impacted body, mind and spirit, and so body-mind focused therapy can help us to better understand what's really happened to us, find our recovery, and regain balance.
You deserve to find your nervous system reset and your way back to who you truly are.
Professionally Qualified
