Reclaim your passion, your purpose and your peace
Unlock your power to heal deeply and live fully
Brainspotting Practitioner
Narcissistic Abuse Specialist ™️
Somatic Trauma-Informed Coach
Accredited Therapeutic Counsellor
Brainspotting Practitioner
Narcissistic Abuse Specialist ™️
Somatic Trauma-Informed Coach
Accredited Therapeutic Counsellor
Healing is about releasing, not remembering
Release stress, trauma and limiting beliefs, and bridge the gap to living a more connected and abundant life, without having to relive painful experiences or spend years in therapy.
Create space in your life for what truly lights you up!
✅ Are you feeling stuck, lost or unfulfilled?
✅ Are you searching for something, but you're not quite sure what that something is?
✅ Are you procrastinating or holding yourself back from pursuing your goals and dreams?
✅ Are you feeling anxious, overwhelmed or stressed, or avoiding people, cancelling meet ups with friends?
✅️ Do you experience frequent nightmares or recurring dreams?
✅ Do you feel like you're not good enough or that you don't matter?
✅️ Are you feeling numb or empty, low in energy or disconnected from who you feel you used to be?
✅ Have you experienced narcissistic abuse? - in either an intimate relationship, a parental / other family member relationship, a friendship or in a working relationship?
✅ Are you struggling with brain fog, chronic illness or pain that you feel may be attributed to stress or emotional trauma?
✅️ Do you struggle with identifying or implementing personal boundaries?
✅️ Do you lack a sense of purpose or struggle to find joy in your life?
✅ Are you overly self-critical or a perfectionist?
If you ticked 'Yes' for even just ONE of the above, my body-mind sessions allow you to talk as much or as little as you need to while you deeply process and release, and could be transformational for you.
As someone who is heart-led, you will naturally approach life with kindness, empathy, and a desire for deep, meaningful connections.
Yet, you may struggle to extend that same compassion to yourself!
Guided by intuition, emotions and values, you seek purpose and may be drawn to creative, healing, or service-oriented careers.
However, painful life events can disrupt your connection to who you truly are, leaving you feeling lost, disconnected, and trapped in unfulfilling careers, and unhealthy, even abusive relationships.
Often, the true root cause of our struggles is outside of our awareness.
Through the deep, mindful processing of Brainspotting, a science-backed, neuro-experiential therapy, we can access our subconscious and get to the root of what's really holding us back and keeping us feeling stuck, without having to relive trauma or spend years in therapy.
Fear is physical. If we don't release the stress, trauma, and limiting beliefs our bodies hold from past experiences, we cannot reconnect with our authentic, true self and increase our capacity for joy and greater fulfillment.
Can you afford to remain stuck?
"Brainspotting made a massive difference to my counselling experience and took it to a completely different level"
What is feeling stuck really costing you in your life, and can you afford to be in the same place, feeling this way, 12 months from now?
If you're fed up of feeling empty or numb, seeing others happy or succeeding, while you feel stuck in procrastination, anxiously making lists and plans but too paralysed by self-doubt to take action, you are very likely disconnected from who you truly are.
If you grew up as 'the good child', have a strong perfectionist part, are intuitive and empathic, great at supporting others (maybe not always giving your energy to the right people) or you have experienced the trauma of narcissistic abuse, the above could all sound very familiar.
Trauma is not always obvious
As we encounter deeply impacting life experiences, such as relationship break ups, divorce, bereavement, redundancy, betrayal, ill-health, abuse...and more, we can feel as if our lives have been stealthily stolen from us.
"Trauma is not what happens to you; it is what happens inside you as a result of what happened to you..."
~ Gabor Maté
Unlock your healing
If you're feeling lost or questioning your identity, know that healing doesn't mean having to relive painful experiences. Instead, it's about releasing them, creating space for the things that truly bring you joy and allow you to live authentically.
The key to transformation lies in letting go of the emotional pain stored in your nervous system. By processing the emotions and limiting beliefs that keep you stuck, we can begin to rewire your brain, harnessing its natural ability to heal and restore balance.
As a certified somatic trauma-informed therapist and coach, my deeply healing, body-mind sessions can help you find clarity, peace, and a better quality of life.
Unseen wounds
Despite outward appearances of confidence and success, we can be silently suffering inside and feel that we are not important, a failure or not good enough.
Together, using evidence-based, science backed modalities, drawing upon polyvagal theory, Internal Family Systems (IFS), neuroscience and mindfulness principles, we can help you heal your unseen wounds, transform how you see yourself and ultimately change your life.
Release yourself from feeling:
Safe, secure and confident
When our nervous system is stuck in survival mode, we struggle to feel safe, secure and in control of ourselves, so we cannot feel confident. This unconsciously affects how we handle challenges and opportunities, personally and professionally.
It also means that you are not living your true life; a life in alignment with who you truly are.
If you are fed up of living a groundhog day, dimming your light for others, playing it small, or stuck at a crossroads, feeling paralysed by anxiety, self-doubt or a lack of energy or motivation, my powerful body-mind sessions really could be transformational for you.
You deserve to heal and live a life that aligns with who you truly are!
"After having a number of unsuccessful attempts to find the right therapist for me, I spent many years trying to heal myself from a lifetime of narcissistic abuse, from family, partners and friends.
It became apparent that I really needed help to fully process and understand the conditioning I had been programmed with from birth and the attachment cycles I was locked into. I needed to find a therapist I could fully trust, who was open, honest, trustworthy and compassionate.
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.
I have found Sharon to be very warm, gentle and insightful,extremely compassionate and totally without judgement. I am also a neurodivergent person and and am often misunderstood by people and misjudged, this was never an issue with Sharon because if ever she didn't understand, she would ask me and accept my replies without judging me.
She was also fun to work with, we often laughed in our sessions too, which I wasn't expecting.
I very quickly felt safe and at ease, free to explore my healing process in the way that felt intuitive and relevant to me. Sharon completely gave me the space, was supportive and adaptive to whatever emerged in any session.
I felt listened to, heard and deeply understood, which I have not had much experience of in my life. I have found this experience very validating and confidence building.
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, not knowing how to move, where to move or what or who to trust.
I am still processing my changes, surprising myself with how very differently I feel, think and behave, it is an ongoing process, but I am happy and curious and look forward to learning more about myself and my potential now.
Sharon has been like a wonderful guide, helping to support me towards a better, happier life path, one I didn't know how to find fully for myself, because I had no reference points.
I will always be extremely grateful for Sharon's kindness, generosity of spirit, her insights and the help she offered me."
~ Anonymised to preserve confidentiality
Eckhart Tolle
I am dedicated to helping heart-led people reconnect with who they truly are so that they can reignite their dreams, reach their full potential, and live a more joyful, purposeful life.
As a complex trauma survivor myself, I am absolutely passionate about bringing you the most effective ways to reconnect to yourself and find more energy, ease and flow in your life.
My therapeutic career has been extensive and varied for more than 18 years, including:
Accelerate your healing and start living the life your wise inner whisperings are already nudging you towards...you wouldn't be here reading this if they weren't!
There are defining moments in life that feel like a crossroads, an opportunity to take action and make a change.
No life is perfect, but when we process our unresolved experiences at a nervous system level, we really can live our best life.
Contact me today if you're ready to take the next step towards living a better quality of life...
When we experience long-term stress, high levels of cortisol in our bodies leaves us susceptible to a whole range of problems, including:
My body-mind sessions can help you with finding better nervous system regulation, reducing cortisol levels and ultimately releasing you from a place of inner-conflict.
Improve your relationship with yourself.
Do you wish there were parts of yourself that you just didn't have?
There really is a way to find relief from these constant inner conflicts and live with more inner peace and calm.
If you have resonated with anything on my website, or you have questions that are not answered on the FAQ page, please fill in the contact form and I will offer you a free-of-charge clarity call to discuss further.
If you are based in the UK, the clarity call is a free-of-charge phone call that lasts approx 15 minutes. This is for us to talk about what you are experiencing, what you need and if sessions with me may be helpful for you.
If you are contacting me from outside of the UK, I will email you to discuss options.
If we decide that we are a potential match in terms of your needs, I will invite you to book a full initial consultation.
Once booked, I will email you full confirmation details.
The full initial consultation is held via Zoom video, allowing us to explore in more detail and establish an initial focus for our work together, along with the approach we feel would best suit your needs.
Further sessions can then be booked either individually, or as a discounted package (packages can be re-booked as appropriate)
Booking your sessions: You are welcome to book on a session-by-session basis for flexibility, or you can book a package of sessions in advance, at a discounted rate.
Holistic support: By combining somatic trauma therapy and therapeutic coaching, you will experience a body-mind approach that addresses the root of the issue, increasing your chance for sustainable change.
To ensure flexibility and protect your investment, I offer a 48 hour cancellation and rescheduling policy. If you provide at least 48 hours' notice before your session, you'll have the freedom to cancel or reschedule without any charges. This gives you the peace of mind to adjust your schedule without financial penalty, ensuring you get the most value out of your therapeutic experience.
You will be sent full T&C's before we commence working together.
I am a trained Brainspotting Practitioner ~ Phase 4
Brainspotting is a deep healing, somatic therapy, supported by scientific evidence.
It's deep, mindful processing releases stress and trauma, without having to relive painful experiences, helping us to find expansion in our lives, personally and professionally.
I am a certified Rewind Therapy Practitioner
Rewind Therapy is an imaginal, highly effective trauma therapy for symptoms of PTSD.
Traumatic events can be processed without having to disclose details.
Approved by the British Psychological Society (BPS)
I am an ICF Certified Narcissistic Trauma Informed Coach and a Narcissistic Abuse Specialist ™
We need more than talking and time to heal from trauma, it is vital that we also connect to our bodies.
You have the right to heal, to reconnect to who you truly are and become unapologetically you.
Midlife is the perfect time to take some space to reset and reinvent yourself - releasing what no longer serves you and allowing yourself to become who you truly are.
If you're feeling like there's more out there for you in this next phase of your life, but you're not quite sure what, or how to make it happen, together we can help you find clarity, process and release your limiting beliefs and find a greater sense of purpose and joy.
Explore more of the specialist trauma therapy trainings I have undertaken, all informing my work to help you to heal and thrive after deeply impacting life experiences.
Please fill in the contact form and I will get back to you within 48 hours
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