Relational Trauma Therapist | UK
No Longer A Ghost In Your Own Life®
Healing the impact of betrayal, narcissistic abuse, and relationships that caused you to lose yourself
Sharon Nicholson
Registered Member MBACP, Accred
Trauma Therapist
ICF Certified Coach
Narcissistic Abuse Specialist™
Focused, body-based work designed to support deep, lasting change.
What's Different About Working This Way?
Healing Has To Reach Deeper Than Understanding
By the time many people arrive here, they have already spent many months, maybe years trying to think their way out of what they are feeling.
They have analysed the relationship.
Replayed the conversations.
Read the books.
Questioned themselves endlessly.
And yet their body still feels unsafe.
Because betrayal trauma is not only held in conscious thought.
It is held in the nervous system.
In the hypervigilance.
The shutdown.
The people-pleasing.
The anxiety.
The loss of self-trust.
The constant bracing for what might happen next.
This is why my work goes beyond traditional talking therapy alone.
Using approaches such as Brainspotting, we gently access and process the deeper emotional and nervous system patterns that words often cannot fully reach.
Not to force you to “move on.”
Not to convince you to think differently.
But to help your body begin experiencing safety differently.
To release what has been carried for too long.
To understand your protective patterns.
And to reconnect with yourself, not just intellectually, but somatically, emotionally, and fully.
Because healing is not simply understanding what happened.
It is no longer living as though it is still happening.
And that is where real change begins.
There is a way to feel steady again.
You don’t need the perfect words to start. If something in you knows it’s time, you're welcome to book a free clarity call.
There is a way to feel steady again, and you are allowed to choose it.
Work With Me
Find Your Door
Narcissistic Abuse & Relational Trauma Intensives
Narcissistic Abuse & Relational Trauma Intensives
Different experiences need different kinds of support.
Whether you are recovering from narcissistic abuse, navigating betrayal trauma, or looking for steady ongoing therapy, there is space here for your healing to unfold in the way that feels right for you.
Intensives offer the depth, continuity, and nervous system immersion that can create meaningful shifts in days, rather than unfolding more gradually across weekly sessions.
Narcissistic Abuse & Relational Trauma Intensives
Narcissistic Abuse & Relational Trauma Intensives
Narcissistic Abuse & Relational Trauma Intensives
For those who have left — or are no longer living with — a narcissistic or emotionally harmful relationship. Whether that was a partner, a parent, a sibling, a family member, or a close friend. Whether the harm happened recently or began much earlier in life.
Ready for concentrated, body-based processing — and the returning to yourself that becomes possible from here.
Includes the Finding Ground post-intensive companion and a follow-up session.
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Betrayal Trauma & Infidelity Intensives
Narcissistic Abuse & Relational Trauma Intensives
Betrayal Trauma & Infidelity Intensives
For those past the initial shock of infidelity — stuck, ruminating, and ready to find themselves again.
Includes the Finding Ground post-intensive companion and a follow-up session.
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90-Minute Sessions — Ongoing Support
No Longer a Ghost in Your Own Life® — Healing Companion
Betrayal Trauma & Infidelity Intensives
For those who need the steadiness of a consistent, supportive space over time.
These longer sessions allow for deeper nervous system work at a gentler pace, whether you are navigating betrayal trauma, recovering from narcissistic abuse, processing childhood relational wounds, or rebuilding your relationship with yourself.
A space to slow down, feel supported, and heal more gradually.
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No Longer a Ghost in Your Own Life® — Healing Companion
No Longer a Ghost in Your Own Life® — Healing Companion
No Longer a Ghost in Your Own Life® — Healing Companion
A self-guided companion for those not yet ready for therapy — or wanting somewhere to begin today. 197 pages. Written as personal letters, directly to you.
£47 · Instant digital download.
🌿 "The note I made when reading was ... ’this fits like a lego brick’"
— Companion Reader
Come home to yourself ⬇️
Therapies I Offer
Therapy With Brainspotting
A body-based approach for trauma, betrayal, anxiety, and relational healing.
Developed out of EMDR, Brainspotting is a gentle yet powerful therapy that helps process the deeper impact of trauma, betrayal, and emotionally harmful relationships.
Rather than endlessly retelling the story, Brainspotting works with the nervous system and the body’s natural ability to process what has become stuck or overwhelming.
You do not need to have the perfect words.
You do not need to explain everything.
And you never have to force yourself beyond what feels manageable.
Sessions often include bilateral music through headphones to support regulation and processing, while we pay close attention to what your body is holding and communicating beneath conscious awareness.
The process is collaborative, paced carefully, and led with safety in mind.
There is space to pause.
Space to notice.
Space to process at a rhythm your nervous system can actually sustain.
Parts-Informed Therapy
A compassionate approach to the parts of you carrying conflict, shame, fear, anger, or loyalty
After relational trauma, it is common to feel divided within yourself.
One part of you may know something was harmful.
Another may still feel attached, loyal, guilty, or responsible.
One part may feel angry.
Another may judge you for that anger.
This internal conflict is not weakness.
It is often the result of adapting to relationships where your needs, feelings, boundaries, or sense of self had to be pushed aside in order to maintain connection or safety.
Parts-informed therapy helps these protective parts feel safe enough to soften, rather than forcing them away or treating them as problems to fix.
Together, we gently build understanding, self-compassion, and nervous system safety, so you can stop fighting yourself internally and begin reconnecting with who you are underneath survival.
Client testimonial
~ Published with consent and anonymised to preserve confidentiality
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Meet Me
I'm Sharon Nicholson, BACP Accredited Counsellor, Brainspotting Practitioner, and Certified Narcissistic Abuse Specialist™.
Put simply, I built this practice because I needed it and it didn't exist.
I have my own lived experience of relational trauma. I understand the pain, the confusion, the exhaustion, the particular disorientation of trying to make sense of something that was designed not to make sense.
I understand what it is to appear capable on the outside while something essential has quietly gone missing.
That's why I do this work, not just because of my training, because I know what's possible on the other side of it.
I work at the pace your nervous system allows. My approach is somatic and body-led, rooted in Brainspotting and parts-informed practice: gentle in pace, and genuinely effective at depth.
For many, this becomes a turning point.
I have over 20 years of clinical practice, and now work exclusively online, across the UK.
🌿 "To anyone thinking about starting this Brainspotting journey with Sharon, all I can say is just do it! The benefits are huge and it's time those of us who are affected by the past break free from it all and move forward with peace and happiness. Brainspotting is truly remarkable and Sharon is an excellent guide. I can highly recommend it!"
— Client experience
