How counselling can help
Some people arrive knowing exactly what they want to work on. Others just know something isn't right. Both are a perfectly good place to start.
These are the areas that come up most often in my work.
Trauma
Trauma doesn't always look like the obvious thing. It can be one event you can name, or years of something you've never called by that name at all. It might show up as being permanently on alert, as parts of your life you can't quite recall, as reactions that feel far bigger than the situation warrants, or as a flatness where feeling should be.
We work at your pace — always. Nothing gets prised open before you're ready. Over time, the aim is that what happened to you takes up less room: that it becomes part of your history rather than the thing quietly organising your present.
Neurodivergence
Whether you've been diagnosed, are waiting for an assessment, or have simply worked out that your brain doesn't run on the standard settings, counselling can be a place to make sense of it.
Much of what neurodivergent people carry isn't the neurodivergence itself — it's the exhaustion of masking, the years of being told to try harder, the shame that builds up when the world keeps handing you the same feedback.
I work with neurodivergence and trauma together as often as separately, because for many people they're thoroughly entwined. The aim is understanding: of how you actually work, what you need, and what you can stop apologising for.
Anxiety, depression and burnout
Anxiety that won't switch off. Mornings that feel impossible. The particular emptiness of having pushed through for so long that there's nothing left to push with.
These often turn out to be signals rather than faults — the mind and body responding sensibly to something that hasn't been sustainable. We look at what's driving it, what it's protecting you from, and what needs to change so you're not simply managing symptoms forever.
Self-esteem and self-worth
The voice that gets there before anyone else does. Feeling like a fraud in rooms you've earned your place in. Apologising for existing, over-giving, or never quite being able to take up space.
Self-esteem isn't repaired by being told you're wonderful. It shifts when you start to see where that voice came from, whose it originally was, and what happens when you stop taking it as fact.
I also work with
- Relationship difficulties
- Family and friendship dynamics
- Work and workplace stress
- Life transitions
- Confidence
- Feeling stuck
What I don't work with
Being clear about this matters — you deserve the right support, not just available support. I don't work with:
- Addiction
- Couples (I work with individuals only)
- EMDR
- Pregnancy loss, miscarriage, or the loss of a child
- Complex or acute mental health conditions requiring specialist psychiatric care
If you get in touch about any of these, I'll do my best to point you towards someone better placed to help.
Not sure whether I'm the right fit? That's exactly what the free introduction call is for.
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