About Sharon

I'm Sharon Nicholson - BACP Accredited Counsellor, Brainspotting Practitioner, ICF Certified Coach, and Certified Narcissistic Abuse Specialist™, with more than 20 years of experience as a therapist.

But before any of that, I know what it is to appear capable on the outside while something essential has quietly gone missing inside.

I have lived the relational patterns this work addresses - in personal relationships and professional ones. The slow erosion of self. The self-doubt that sounds like your own voice. The gradual disconnection from a life that looks fine from the outside and feels profoundly different inside.

I built this practice because I needed it once, and it didn't exist. That is the reason every part of it is built the way it is, with the focus, the depth, and the warm humanity I wished had been available to me.

The people I work with are outwardly capable, often high-achieving, deeply intuitive - the person everyone else leans on. 

Privately, they are carrying something that none of that capability seems able to reach.

Sometimes it has a name: betrayal, narcissistic abuse, relational trauma. Sometimes it is quieter — a gradual dimming, a version of themselves they have lost touch with, a life that looks fine from the outside and feels empty from within.

Sometimes it is simply the knowing that there is more available - more joy, more freedom, more of themselves - and something keeps getting in the way.

Whatever brought them here, what they share is this: they are tired of carrying it, and they are ready for something that actually moves.

I have been a therapist for over twenty years. A decade in the NHS as a BACP Accredited Counsellor and Clinical Supervisor. Several years in a Women's Refuge, bereavement services, and education settings. 

Each of those places taught me that genuine healing is possible, even when it feels completely unreachable from the inside.

I established my private practice in 2007 and have worked exclusively online with people across the UK ever since.

I came to Brainspotting as a therapist first, then experienced it myself - and that changed everything.

It helped me access and release things I hadn't realised I was still holding. Things that years of talking had never fully reached. From that moment, I knew it needed to be at the centre of what I offer.

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 - working with both the emotional story and the body's memory of it.

I know what it is to lose yourself through something you didn't choose, and to have to find your way back. 

That experience taught me something twenty years of clinical training couldn't: what it actually feels like to not know who you are anymore, and what it takes to come back.

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.

I am a dancer, a dreamer, a doodler, and a deep thinker. I love sunsets, hot chocolate, the smell of coffee, but not the taste, 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 had 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.