Sharon Nicholson
Registered Member MBACP, Accred
BACP Accredited Counsellor | Specialist in Relational Trauma, Betrayal Trauma & Narcissistic Abuse
Online Trauma Therapy (UK)
Why am I still not over this?
Why do I doubt myself so much?
Was it really that bad - or is it me?
If these questions feel familiar, you may find yourself second-guessing your thoughts, replaying experiences, or questioning your perception - especially when you’re trying to move forward or make decisions that matter.
Something feels unresolved. Not loud. Not obvious. Just persistent.
Even when you understand what happened, it can still feel like something inside you has shifted in a way you can’t quite explain.
To everyone around you, you are capable, competent, successful - the one who holds everything together.
But privately, something has shifted.
A quiet sense of disconnection.
Self-doubt where there used to be ease.
Anxiety, overthinking, and a mind that won’t switch off - even when nothing is wrong on the surface.
Maybe you learned to walk on eggshells or read the room early on.
To stay “fine” instead of fully you.
You function well in your life, but you don’t feel fully in it. It doesn't feel truly yours.
You may have tried to make sense of it.
Talked it through. Named it. Read about it.
But nothing has really shifted.
That isn’t a failure.
Some experiences are held in the nervous system too, and this is where the work becomes different.
Online therapy integrating Brainspotting - a gentle body-based approach evolved from EMDR..
It works directly with the nervous system, helping process emotional experiences that can feel stuck or difficult to reach through talking alone.
You don’t have to relive everything or explain it perfectly for something to shift.
🌿 " I am finally living my life in colour again after 30 years in black and white"
- Client experience
There is no single path, only what fits where you are right now.
Some people choose weekly or fortnightly therapy sessions for steady support over time.
Others choose an intensive when they want space to step out of confusion and start seeing things more clearly, without having to carry it week to week.
Both are valid, they just meet different needs.

For women who want ongoing specialist support in a steady, consistent rhythm - weekly or fortnightly.
50-minute therapy sessions can end just as something important is beginning to emerge - That's why I work in 90-minute sessions.
The additional time allows your nervous system to settle, deeper processing to occur, and integration to happen before the session ends.

An intensive provides uninterrupted space for deeper processing and clearer decision-making.
For women navigating infidelity, betrayal, shattered trust, and the painful uncertainty of what comes next.
When trust has been broken, the mind loops.
An intensive creates dedicated space to process the shock and confusion, anxiety, grief, and the decision-making that betrayal often leaves behind.
Includes a follow-up integration session.
Want to understand more about how betrayal trauma affects the nervous system? → Read more here

For deeper processing and integration of old pain, anxiety, and emotional stress.
For women who feel they have lost themselves.
Whether through narcissistic abuse, relational trauma, childhood emotional wounds, chronic people-pleasing, or years of adapting to survive, something in you knows you are no longer living as fully as you were meant to.
This intensive offers concentrated space to find nervous system regulation and reconnect with yourself, creating meaningful movement where understanding alone has not been enough.
Includes a follow-up integration session.
Want to understand more about relational trauma and narcissistic abuse? → Read more here
A free clarity call can help us explore where you are and which path might fit best.
Those who come to work with me are often highly capable, empathic and insightful.
What changes is not that they suddenly become someone different.
It is that they finally feel like themselves again.
Clients often describe:
The goal is not simply to understand what happened.
The goal is to no longer organise your life around it.
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.

Most approaches work with what you can think, explain, and understand.
Brainspotting works with what lives beneath that.
The looping.
The anxiety.
The hypervigilance.
The patterns that return despite everything you know.
Evolved from EMDR, Brainspotting is often experienced as both gentle and profound. It follows your nervous system rather than forcing a protocol, helping the body release and process emotional stress that can be hard to access through words alone.
Many people describe feeling lighter afterwards - not because the work is superficial, but because something that has been carried for a long time has finally been processed.
🌿 "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
Brainspotting and why it's different → Read more here
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

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.
I'm passionate about this work because I know this territory personally - relational trauma, narcissistic abuse - and I understand the complexities of its aftermath, even many years on.
This is specialist work, and you deserve specialist support.
I work with a small number of clients at any one time so that each person has the time, attention and depth this kind of work really needs.
🌿 "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

Not everyone is ready for therapy - but many people are living with anxiety, overthinking, and emotional overwhelm that won’t settle.
Sometimes you are still trying to understand what changed in you.
Sometimes you are caught in patterns you can’t fully explain.
Sometimes you are simply trying to stop questioning your own reality.
No Longer a Ghost in Your Own Life® is a relational trauma healing companion for women who find themselves stuck in self-doubt, mental replaying, and a quiet but persistent loss of trust in themselves.
Not because they are broken.
But because something in their experience has made them question their own mind.
This companion helps you begin to make sense of that experience.
Not from the outside looking in -
but from the inside out.
Through nineteen therapeutic letters and a guided journal, it explores the many layers of relational trauma:
The confusion.
The self-doubt.
The grief.
The slow erosion of self-trust.
And the part of you that quietly wonders:
“Where did I go?”
Alongside the letters, you’ll find somatic practices, nervous system education, reflective exercises, and space to write - not to fix yourself, but to help you understand yourself more clearly.
Because when your experience starts to make sense, something begins to shift.
Not all at once.
But enough to feel like you are no longer lost inside it.
It also includes When the Nights Are Loud - a 57-page sleep companion for the evenings when overthinking, replaying, and emotional activation feel hardest to carry.
Many readers begin here before therapy. Others return between sessions. Some simply use it as a steady place to land when things feel overwhelming.
This is not a resource to support reconciliation.
This is a companion for understanding your own experience - and beginning to find your way back to yourself.
🌿 "I am finding the healing companion to be very grounding, reassuring, and helping me not feel "crazy." It is a wonderful and meaningful resource, particularly in a time of vulnerability and meaning-making."
- Reader Italy
254 pages total · £47 · Instant digital download
Try this first - and you'll also be the first to know about new articles, free resources, and upcoming intensives.
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.
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
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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 from 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.




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