
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
Narcissistic Abuse Recovery
Counselling for Depression
Rewind Trauma Therapy
Somatic Trauma Therapy
Brainspotting
Bespoke Support
As a trauma-informed therapist, I specialise in Counselling for Depression and supporting recovery and healing from the trauma that is Narcissistic Abuse.
You absolutely deserve to heal ~ to have the freedom to feel your true worth, connect to your sense of purpose and increase your capacity for joy.
Eckhart Tolle
We can probably all live our lives so much more in the present, as our true, authentic selves, but for some of us, this is a quite a challenge...and for good reason!
With this in mind, please know that there is so much more to you than you may imagine, and maybe somewhere deep inside of you, you already know this?
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.
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!
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.
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 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.
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
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...
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.
Explore my specialist trainings and learn how root cause resolution, as well as symptom management, could help you to:
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.
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
I am a certified Rewind Technique Practitioner
A non-intrusive & highly effective PTSD Trauma Therapy
Approved by the British Psychological Society (BPS)
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.
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.
Please fill in the contact form and I will get back to you within 48 hours
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