About Me

I'm Sharon Nicholson, BACP Accredited Counsellor, Brainspotting Practitioner, and Certified Narcissistic Abuse Specialist™.

I specialise in relational trauma: the kind that doesn't often come from a single event, but forms slowly, in families, partnerships, and systems where your sense of self, your needs, or your perception of reality were consistently overridden. 

The kind that leaves you highly functional on the outside, and quietly unlike yourself on the inside.

I have my own experience of relational trauma, including narcissistic abuse, and whilst we all have our own individual experiences, I truly appreciate what it is to be inside a relationship that quietly rewrites your sense of reality. 

I understand what it is to feel like a shadow of your former self. To go through the motions of a life that looks fine and feels so very different inside.

That's why I do this work, because I know what's possible on the other side of it.

I've been a therapist for over 20 years. 

Before specialising in relational trauma and moving to private practice full-time, I spent more than a decade working in various therapeutic settings, including ten years as a BACP Accredited Senior Counsellor and Clinical Supervisor in the NHS, specialising in Counselling for Depression. 

Voluntary work within Women's Refuge.

Counselling in bereavement services and further and higher education. 

Years of sitting with those in the middle of the hardest things, and learning, over and over, that healing is genuinely possible in places that feel completely unreachable from the inside.

I began my private practice in 2007. Today I work exclusively online with adults across the UK, primarily with women navigating the lasting effects of relational trauma, and welcoming clients of all genders.

I came to Brainspotting as a therapist. Then I experienced it myself.

That changed everything.

It helped me access and release things I hadn't realised I was still holding, things that talking, understanding, and prior therapy hadn't reached. 

Things that lived in my body long after my mind had made sense of them.

From that moment, I knew it needed to be at the centre of what I offer, and I have extensively trained in this modality.

Brainspotting works where the story stops and the body begins. Gentle enough to feel safe, precise enough to reach what nothing else has.

I weave it together with parts-informed therapy and somatic approaches, working with both the emotional story and the body's memory of it. 

Because thinking about it more is rarely the answer.

I live with a chronic health condition, and I understand the complicated relationship we can have with our own bodies, with the idea of healing, with the quiet fear that maybe this is just how it is now.

I understand the instinct to manage it alone. To keep going. To tell yourself you're fine.

But we were never meant to carry these things by ourselves. 

Asking for help, especially when every instinct says to just keep going, takes a particular kind of courage. One I have a great deal of respect for.

Outside the therapy room, I'm a dancer, a dreamer, a doodler, and a deep thinker (sounds like a song!) I love sunsets, hot chocolate, the sea on a blustery day and films that stay with you long after the credits. 

There was a time when I didn't know what I loved, when I'd wandered so far from myself that joy felt genuinely out of reach. Being able to name these things now, and share them with you, means more than I can say.

🌿 "Sharon is a wonderfully warm therapist, who held a safe and open space for me in every one of our sessions. I felt like I could talk about anything, no matter how big or small."

— Client experience 

You don't need the words or the certainty.

You just need that quiet sense,  somewhere in your body, that something has to change.

A free clarity call is a gentle place to begin, a conversation, not a commitment. 

Come exactly as you are.