You didn't lose yourself.
You adapted to survive something that asked too much of you.
Whether you have a name for what happened - narcissistic abuse, emotional manipulation, a parent or partner who made everything about them - or whether you simply know that somewhere along the way, you became someone quieter than you used to be.
You don't need a diagnosis. You don't need a label.
You only need the sense that something in you has gone quiet - and that you're ready to meet her again.
Many women arrive here after years of trying to understand what happened.
They understand the patterns, and yet they still find themselves:
Insight matters.
But insight alone rarely changes what the nervous system learned through experience.
This intensive creates the sustained space needed for deeper processing and integration.
Not simply understanding what happened.
But loosening its grip on your life.
Your intensive takes place entirely online, from wherever feels right. Some clients create a quiet sanctuary at home. Others take themselves away to a hotel or similar for a couple of days, and find that experience in itself becomes part of their healing.
Each intensive typically includes:
Each intensive is tailored carefully to where you are and paced to feel safe throughout.
🌿 "I do very much feel that the Brainspotting has been life changing for me. I feel my whole outlook, ability to manage stress and deal with my previous traumas have all significantly healed."
- Client experience
It may be right for you if:
You don't need certainty. You only need the sense that something is ready to change.
An intensive is a concentrated commitment - designed to give your nervous system the sustained space it needs to genuinely move through this.
🌿 "After the deliberation, the intensive was the right approach for me - and I'm grateful you offer this."
- Client experience
An in-depth conversation about where you are and whether an intensive or ongoing sessions feels most appropriate.
A genuine piece of work in its own right.
Weekday and weekend availability - please enquire.
A deposit of 50% secures your dates, with the balance due two weeks before you begin.
Please contact me via the enquiry form if you cannot find an answer to your question.
You don't need to feel ready. Most people who reach out are still in the thick of it - exhausted, uncertain, and unsure whether anything can actually shift. The clarity call is the place to explore whether this feels like the right fit, at the right time. If you are considering it, that consideration is usually enough to begin with.
No. Some clients come here still in the relationship, uncertain about what they want or whether they want to leave. Others were left - suddenly, without warning, or for someone else - and are trying to make sense of something they didn't choose. Others left years ago and find something still hasn't settled. Wherever you are, this work can meet you there.
Yes, absolutely. A significant part of this work is with women whose most formative relational harm came from a parent. The patterns that form in those early relationships can run deeply - through adult relationships, professional environments, and your sense of self. This work is built for that.
In my experience, yes. Many clients find the online setting easier to settle into precisely because they are in their own space. The work is the same - the depth, the pace, the care. Location doesn't change that.
The work is paced carefully throughout, with nervous system regulation and grounding woven into every session. You will never be pushed further than feels safe. If something feels like too much, we slow down. Your capacity guides the pace - not the other way around.
Not at all. Many women arrive here recognising some of what they've read about narcissistic abuse but unsure whether the label truly fits. You don't need a label to be here. What matters is the impact - the anxiety, the self-doubt, the loss of yourself. If that feels familiar, this work is for you.
The shame of what happened is not yours to carry.
It never was.
You don't need to arrive certain or with the right words. You just need to take one small step - and this is it.
🌿 "I would say to anyone suffering in this way not to give up and I would totally recommend Sharon and Brainspotting. I've finally got my life back!"
- Client experience
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Offering online trauma therapy across the UK, including Weymouth, Dorset and surrounding areas.
This practice specialises in the anxiety, self-doubt, and loss of self that follow relational trauma, PTSD, betrayal, narcissistic abuse, and traumatic bereavement — and in helping women feel safe enough to finally live the life that has been waiting for them, through the body, not just the mind.
Brainspotting, evolved from EMDR, is my primary modality - body-based, gentle, and often reaching what talking therapy alone has not been able to shift. 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.
The content on the website is for informational purposes only. It Is not intended as professional advice, treatment or diagnosis. Please seek appropriate qualified support from your healthcare provider where necessary.
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