BACP Accredited Counsellor | Brainspotting Practitioner | Narcissistic Abuse Specialist™
Specialist online therapy for relational trauma, betrayal trauma, and narcissistic abuse recovery.
90-minute sessions | Therapy intensives
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.
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 alone was never going to change how it feels.
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
There is no single path, there is only the one that fits where you are right now.
Many people prefer to work gradually, week by week in ongoing sessions
Others choose concentrated, uninterrupted space - what might take months in weekly sessions, an intensive can often access in days.
Both are valid. Both work.

For women who want ongoing specialist support in a steady, consistent rhythm.
Most therapy sessions 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.

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, confusion, grief, and 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 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 reconnect with yourself and create 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.
— CLIENT EXPERIENCE
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.
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.

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 the same roots as 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.
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.
Sometimes you are still making sense of what happened. Sometimes you are simply looking for something that helps you feel less alone in it.
No Longer a Ghost in Your Own Life® is a relational trauma healing companion written for women who have lost trust in themselves, feel stuck in patterns they can't quite explain, or no longer feel fully present in their own lives.
Nineteen letters for the many layers of this recovery.
For the confusion.
For the self-doubt.
For the grief.
For the part of you that wonders where you went.
Alongside somatic practices, nervous system education, reflective exercises, and space to write, it offers something many women tell me they have been searching for:
A way back to themselves.
It also includes When the Nights Are Loud - a 57-page sleep companion for the evenings when the replaying, overthinking, and loneliness feel hardest to carry.
Many readers begin here before therapy. Others return to it between sessions as a companion for the journey.
This is not a resource to support reconciliation, this is about you, and your personal healing.
🌿 "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
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 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.




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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.
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