What I Can Help You With
Starting therapy takes courage, and it involves a lot of trust.
Everyone goes through difficult times, and even when the challenges look similar, each person’s experience is deeply personal. I don’t approach people as problems to fix, but as individuals trying to understand and cope with the realities of their lives.
You know your life better than anyone, and nothing about my training replaces that. Whilst I don't consider myself the expert of you, I do have psychological expertise. Below are some of the themes that often show up in my work. You may see yourself in several of these areas, or in none of them, therapy is always shaped around your unique story and needs.
Self-Esteem, Self-Worth and Self-Trust
Exploring the beliefs that shape how you see yourself, how you talk to yourself, and how you make decisions. This may include understanding where harsh self-judgements began and building a steadier, kinder relationship with yourself.
Loss and Grief
Supporting the emotional impact of losing someone or something important. Grief is deeply personal and can touch relationships, identities, dreams, or life stages. Therapy offers a space to move at your own pace, make sense of what has changed and how to relate to the accompanying feelings and thoughts.
Identity, Belonging and Loneliness
Looking at who you are beneath roles, expectations, and past experiences. This can include questions around cultural identity, family systems, life transitions, or the quiet loneliness that comes from feeling unseen or misunderstood.
Boundaries, People Pleasing and Perfectionism
Understanding the old survival strategies that once kept you safe, but now lead to burnout, resentment, or disconnection. Together we'll explore how to set boundaries with more clarity and develop a sense of worth that isn’t tied to meeting everyone else’s needs or expectations.
Intimacy, Relationships and Attachment
Examining the patterns that show up in connection, whether that’s fear of closeness, fear of losing people, or cycles that repeat in relationships. Much of this work focuses on attachment, early experiences, and how they shape your adult relational world.
Trauma and Abuse
Supporting the impact of trauma, including emotional, physical, sexual, or relational harm. This may involve working with the nervous system, shame, inner parts, and the stories you had to carry alone. The initial focus is on safety, stabilisation, pacing, and integration rather than revisiting the trauma before you’re ready.
Sexual Trauma and Abuse
I have specialist training in supporting clients who’ve experienced sexual trauma or childhood sexual abuse (CSA). My approach is grounded, sensitive, and paced in a way that helps clients feel safe enough to explore their experiences without pressure.
Existential Concerns
Exploring meaning, purpose, freedom, uncertainty, and the questions that arise when life feels stuck or directionless. This work often includes identity, transitions, grief, and the quieter forms of suffering that aren’t always easy to name.
Parentification and Recovery from Emotionally Neglectful Families
Exploring what it was like to grow up without the emotional support you needed. This may include untangling roles you took on as a child, such as being the caretaker or peacekeeper, and finding ways to step out of responsibilities that were never yours.
Inner Child Work
A gentle process of connecting with younger parts of yourself that still carry unmet needs, fear, shame, or longing. Inner child work helps bring understanding, repair, and compassion to the places in you that feel small, scared, or unheard.
Depression and Anxiety
Working with the heaviness, numbness, worry, or overwhelm that make day-to-day life difficult. We'll explore not only symptoms, but what these feelings might be signalling in your inner world, relationships, or history.
Expats, Digital Nomads and Highly Mobile Individuals
Supporting the unique challenges of living across countries or cultures, such as rootlessness, identity shifts, visa stress, frequent transitions, and the loss of community or belonging. This work often includes exploring stability, meaning, and home.
Shame and Self-Criticism
Looking at the painful internal stories that make you feel “not enough”, “too much”, or fundamentally flawed. Shame often develops in relationships where needs weren’t met or vulnerability wasn’t safe. Therapy offers space to understand and soften these patterns, including sexual and body-related shame.