• Home
  • Healing Companion
  • How I Work
    • Betrayal Trauma Intensive
    • Trauma Intensive
    • The Expansion Intensive
    • 90-Minute Sessions
    • Anxiety & Overthinking
    • Fees
  • Brainspotting
  • Blog
  • About
    • About Sharon Nicholson
    • Qualifications & Training
  • Contact Me
  • More
    • Home
    • Healing Companion
    • How I Work
      • Betrayal Trauma Intensive
      • Trauma Intensive
      • The Expansion Intensive
      • 90-Minute Sessions
      • Anxiety & Overthinking
      • Fees
    • Brainspotting
    • Blog
    • About
      • About Sharon Nicholson
      • Qualifications & Training
    • Contact Me
  • Home
  • Healing Companion
  • How I Work
    • Betrayal Trauma Intensive
    • Trauma Intensive
    • The Expansion Intensive
    • 90-Minute Sessions
    • Anxiety & Overthinking
    • Fees
  • Brainspotting
  • Blog
  • About
    • About Sharon Nicholson
    • Qualifications & Training
  • Contact Me
Sharon Nicholson 
Registered Member MBACP, Accred 

Betrayal Trauma & Narcissistic Abuse Recovery

No Longer A Ghost In Your Own Life®

No Longer A Ghost In Your Own Life®No Longer A Ghost In Your Own Life®No Longer A Ghost In Your Own Life®


Find your way back to yourself

Specialist therapy and intensives for the lasting impact of betrayal, relational trauma, or narcissistic abuse.

Something in you has gone quiet

To everyone around you, you are capable, competent, successful - the one who holds it all together - and privately, something has changed. Something you haven't quite found the words for, or the right person to say them to.


Maybe it began with a relationship that changed you - a betrayal you keep replaying, a hurt you can't yet see clearly enough to move on from, or a dynamic that slowly dimmed something in you, or left you questioning your own reality - unsure what was real, unsure what was you. Or maybe you grew up feeling too much, or never quite enough - and have been quietly shaping your life around that ever since.


You are performing well in your life, but you are not fully in it.


You feel it in the heaviness on Sunday evenings. The tiredness that sleep doesn't touch. The overthinking that starts the moment things go quiet. You may feel it in your relationships too - in the patterns you keep returning to, or the pull towards certain people. 


Understanding it was never going to be enough.


You have been carrying it well. Too well.



You know there is more 




🌿  " I am finally living my life in colour again after 30 years in black and white"

~ Client experience 



Begin with a conversation
Sharon Nicholson 
Registered Member MBACP, Accred

Meet me

I'm Sharon Nicholson - BACP Accredited Counsellor, Brainspotting Practitioner, and Certified Narcissistic Abuse Specialist™.


Twenty years of clinical practice. Thousands of hours working with exactly the kind of pain this work addresses - relational trauma, betrayal, narcissistic abuse, and the quiet erosion of self that so often follows.


This is specialist work, and you deserve specialist support.



To ensure the quality and attention this work requires, I work with a limited number of clients at any one time.



🌿 "After having a number of unsuccessful attempts to find the right therapist for me...Sharon has been more than I had even allowed myself to hope for, she totally exceeded my hopes or any expectation I may have had."

- Client experience 

The work here goes deeper than talking


Whether you have spent years trying to make sense of it, or are only just beginning - if something still hasn't shifted, that isn't a failure of insight or effort.


What you are carrying isn't held in the part of you that understands things. It lives deeper than that.


That is exactly where this work begins.



Book a free conversation
Sharon Nicholson
Registered MBACP, Accred

Betraya trauma
Narcissistic Abuse Recovery

Why Brainspotting?


Most approaches work with what you can think, name, and explain. Brainspotting works with what lives beneath that - in the places that talking, understanding, and trying harder have never quite reached.


If you have heard of EMDR, Brainspotting evolved from the same roots - and is often experienced as gentle and intuitive. Where EMDR follows a structured protocol, Brainspotting follows you. Your body leads. Your nervous system sets the pace.


It can reach the replaying, the looping, the anxiety that lives beneath the surface even on good days. The patterns that return despite everything you know about yourself.


Most people describe leaving a session feeling lighter - not because the work isn't deep, but because something that has been held for a long time has finally been heard.


Not just understood. Actually felt, processed, and released.


Brainspotting and why it's different → Read more here





🌿 "I have tried CBT, Hypnotherapy, Mindfulness, Compassionate Mind Training and have a whole library of books on the subject, but nothing has really worked long term until I discovered Brainspotting."

- Client experience





Alongside Brainspotting, I integrate parts-informed therapy. Most of us have parts working very hard - the one that keeps everyone else alright, the one that stays safe by staying small, the procrastinator, the people pleaser, the one who tries to be perfect. These parts aren't the problem - they learned their roles for good reasons. 


This work helps you feel less stuck in patterns that may have protected you once, but no longer serve you.


Parts-informed therapy → Read more here




Take the first step back to yourself

Find Your Door

Where Would You Like To Begin?


There is no single path. There is only the one that fits where you are right now.


Many people choose concentrated, uninterrupted space - what might take months in weekly sessions, an intensive can often access in days. 


Others prefer to work gradually, week by week. Both are valid. Both work.



Betrayal Trauma Therapy Intensive

Betrayal Trauma Intensive

When trust has been shattered, the mind loops. The body holds it long after you think you should be over it. 

If you're ready to give this focused, uninterrupted time, this is created for that.


Includes a follow-up integration session.


Want to understand more about how betrayal trauma affects the nervous system?  →  Read more here


Betrayal Trauma Intensives
Relational trauma therapy intensive

Relational Trauma Intensives

Some relationships erode you slowly. 

Whether you recognise it as narcissistic abuse or simply know something wasn't right, the impact has stayed. 


Includes a follow-up integration session.


Want to understand more about relational trauma and narcissistic abuse?  → Read more here


Relational Trauma Intensives
Expansion therapy intensives

Specialist therapy for trauma, betrayal, and relational harm

The Expansion Intensive

You are not stuck because something is wrong with you. 

You are stuck because some part of you learned to hold back. 

If you're ready for change, this is created for exactly that. 


Includes a follow-up integration session.


Expansion Intensives
Sharon Nicholson 

Trauma Therapy sessions

Brainspotting, Parts-informed therapy

90-Minute Sessions — Ongoing Support

For those who prefer a steady rhythm of consistent therapeutic space - working gradually, week by week, with room for deeper processing than a standard therapy hour permits.


90-minute sessions
Sharon Nicholson 
Registered MBACP, Accred

Narcissistic abuse recovery
Relational trauma healing

A quiet place to begin and something to hold you between sessions


No Longer a Ghost in Your Own Life® is a 197-page relational trauma healing companion - 19 letters written for the many layers of this kind of recovery, including narcissistic abuse, with somatic practices, nervous system education, and space to write.


It includes a free 57-page sleep companion - When the Nights Are loud.


Drawn from the same approaches as my 1:1 work, many readers find it a meaningful place to quietly begin before therapy, or as a way to deepen processing between sessions..Yours to return to whenever you need it.



Less than the cost of a single therapy session · 254 pages · £47 · Instant digital download


Explore the companion

Not sure which feels right for you?

The free, initial conversation is the place to explore that - gently, without pressure. 


Book a free conversation

" I am finally living my life in colour again after 30 years in black and white"


— CLIENT EXPERIENCE

Frequently Asked Questions

Please contact me through the enquiry form if you cannot find an answer to your question.

Not at all. Many women who come here would never describe themselves as having experienced trauma. They simply know that something has been keeping them from living fully - and that thinking about it hasn't been enough to shift it. This work is for that, whatever its origins.



Relational trauma doesn't always come with a clear label. If a relationship - with a partner, a parent, or someone else close to you — left you feeling anxious, disconnected from yourself, or like a version of yourself you no longer recognise, that is enough to be here.



That is one of the most common reasons people come here. Understanding something cognitively rarely shifts how it lives in the body. This work reaches the place that insight alone cannot.



Trauma bonding is a real and well-documented response to certain kinds of relational harm. The attachment you feel is not a reflection of your weakness or poor judgement - it is a nervous system response. This work helps gently untangle it.



Yes. The nervous system does not work on a timeline. If something is still affecting how you feel, how you relate, or how you move through your days - it is still worth addressing, however long ago it happened.



The first session is an in-depth conversation — about where you are, what you are carrying, and what kind of support feels right for you. It is a genuine piece of work in its own right. Not a formality, not a box to tick before the real work begins. By the end, you will have a clearer sense of what you need - and whether working together feels like the right fit.



Brainspotting is a body-based approach that works with the nervous system to process what talking alone rarely reaches. Using specific eye positions and bilateral music, it accesses what is being held beneath conscious thought - without needing to find the perfect words for it first. Developed from the same roots as EMDR, it is often experienced as more intuitive and more gently powerful than people expect.



Traditional talking therapy works primarily with the mind - making sense of what happened, understanding patterns, gaining insight. This work goes further. Brainspotting works directly with the body and nervous system, reaching the places that insight alone cannot. 


The result is not just understanding - but genuine shift, at the level it is actually being held.



Take the next step



If something here has felt familiar, a clarity call is a simple next step - a quiet conversation about where you are, what you are carrying, and whether this feels like the right fit. 


No pressure. No commitment. Just a place to begin.


You'll find investment information on the fees page 




🌿 "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."

- Client experience



Begin with a conversation

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Please note: This website and contact form are not monitored 24/7 and are not intended for crisis situations. If you are in immediate danger or experiencing a mental health emergency, please contact emergency services, 999 (UK). You can also call 111 (UK) or a crisis line in your area for non-life threatening support.


Privacy notice: By submitting this form you agree that I will use the information you provide to respond to your enquiry and manage appointments. Please do not include sensitive personal information in this form. For more information please see my Privacy Notice 


Sharon Nicholson is a BACP Accredited Counsellor and Brainspotting Practitioner working exclusively online across the uk. This practice specialises in the lasting effects of relational trauma, narcissistic abuse, and betrayal, including C-PTSD and the anxiety, hypervigilance, shame, and emotional overwhelm these experiences so often leave behind. 

Brainspotting is a neuroexperiential, body-based approach that works in a similar way to EMDR. Evolved out of EMDR, it is often experienced as more gentle and intuitive than people expect. If you have been searching for EMDR therapy and want to understand how Brainspotting compares, a free clarity call is the right place to start.

Sharon Nicholson, MBACP, Accred

Online Trauma therapist UK 

Narcissistic abuse, anxiety, burnout
Sharon Nicholson, MBACP, Accred

Online Trauma therapist UK 

Narcissistic abuse, anxiety, burnout
Sharon Nicholson, MBACP, Accred

Online Trauma therapist UK 

Narcissistic abuse, anxiety, burnout
Sharon Nicholson, MBACP, Accred

Online Trauma therapist UK 

Narcissistic abuse, anxiety, burnout

Copyright © 2018-2026  Sharon Nicholson - All Rights Reserved.

Offering online trauma therapy across the UK, including Weymouth, Dorset and surrounding areas.

Specialising in relational trauma, narcissistic abuse recovery, and betrayal trauma — through the body, not just the mind.

The content on the website is for informational purposes only. It Is not intended as professional advice, treatment or diagnosis. Please seek appropriate qualified support from your healthcare provider where necessary. 

  • Healing Companion
  • Betrayal Trauma Intensive
  • Trauma Intensive
  • The Expansion Intensive
  • Anxiety & Overthinking
  • Betrayal Trauma
  • Narcissistic Abuse
  • Brainspotting
  • Blog
  • Parts-Informed Therapy
  • Subscribe
  • Contact Me
  • Intensives T&Cs
  • Disclaimer
  • Respectful Communication
  • Online Trauma Therapy UK
  • Social Media Policy
  • Privacy Policy
  • Healing Companion T&Cs

Cookie Policy

This website uses cookies to help with site navigation. By continuing to use this site you accept our use of cookies. Please see our Privacy Policy for further information about cookies and how to manage them.

DeclineAccept & Close