Hello! I'm Sharon...
Put very simply, I help heart-led people to heal from painful experiences, reignite and follow their dreams, and live their best authentic lives.
I've been in practice as a therapist for over 18 years now.
From coaching and mentoring, counselling in Women's Refuge, facilitating Pattern Changing courses for women who had suffered Domestic Abuse, to counselling in Further and Higher education, and 10 years as a High Intensity Senior Counsellor and Clinical Supervisor in the NHS, my therapeutic career has been extensive and varied.
Like us all, I am more than just my professional qualifications, and I bring who I am at heart, along with my lived experiences, to my work.
Back in time...
There was a time when, despite my accomplishments and success on the outside, I felt empty and unfulfilled on the inside. Disconnected from who I truly was, I felt anxious, like an imposter in my own life, staying stuck for way too long in some workplaces and relationships that were no longer healthy for me, even harmful to me in the form of narcissistic abuse.
Not able to connect to and follow my own dreams, it was like life was just happening to me, not for me.
It's really difficult to feel that you deserve better when you're frozen in self-doubt, but if you don’t feel that you deserve better, you won't get better.
After spending so much time prioritising others, I finally chose to invest in myself and heal the inner wounds that were keeping me feeling stuck and fearful...I hadn't even recognised that was a choice I could make!
Like every single one of us, I will forever be a work in progress, but that's the beauty of our power to grow and change, it is infinite.
Passion, inspiration and connection, are all themes that have likely gone missing for us when we feel stuck, they had gone missing for me for a long time.
Now all three of these themes give me a deep sense of meaning and purpose in my life, inextricably linked to my work and what I can offer you.
One of the greatest passions and purpose in my life is helping others to heal their inner wounds and go on to live the heart-led lives they both want and deserve.
To be able to truly connect to myself and my own life in this way is priceless.
I never really considered myself to be a creative person, but my therapeutic work is deeply and powerfully creative.
I'm a dancer, dreamer, doodler and deep thinker. I describe myself as intuitive and empathic (I am an INFJ)
I use powerful, creative interventions in my work, such as inner child work and the neuroexperiential modality of Brainspotting...who was I kidding that I'm not creative?...and this is how powerful our inner blocks can be, telling us that we are not good enough, not clever enough, not creative enough to be creative!
I didn't know it at the time, but the complex trauma of narcissistic abuse was to eventually be my catalyst for change.
Allow your painful feelings to be your catalyst for change.
~You are worthy of wonderful things!
I love making memories with my family...children really do grow up so quickly!
I love sunsets and sunrises ~ I'm rarely up early enough to catch the latter and I take far too many photos of sunsets!
I love to sit on a balcony when I'm on holiday and just absorb a wonderfully expansive view...add in the sunrise or sunset and that's pure bliss!
I love to be inspired by a good book and to wander by the sea, especially wrapped up snug and warm on a crisp cold, blustery day ~ there's nothing quite like blowing the cobwebs.
I love the changing colours of nature in the Autumn, the sound of the wind blowing through crisp leaves.
To get lost in a film is a real treat and I really do love to dance, even if just around my lounge ~ lots would say their kitchen but that's really not my favourite room in the house!
There was a time when I had no idea what I loved, I'd moved so far away from myself that all of this was off my radar. It really is a joy to be able to list these for you here.
It's never too late to heal.
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