Experience supportive therapy that helps you feel more at home in your life. You might come to therapy because of grief, trauma, or a major life transition, or because you simply sense that the way you have been living no longer quite fits. Together, we can explore what it would mean for you to live in a way that feels more truthful, rooted and connected – in your body, in your relationships, and in the places you call home.
Individual Therapy
Individual therapy offers a weekly, consistent space that is just for you. You can bring whatever feels most pressing or confusing: raw grief, the after-effects of trauma, questions about identity, a sense of numbness or exhaustion, or a quiet longing for something more.
In our sessions, we might:
– trace how losses, transitions and earlier experiences have shaped your sense of self and belonging
– listen closely to your body’s signals – places of tension, collapse or restlessness, as well as small pockets of ease or aliveness
– explore patterns of coping that once kept you safe (overworking, caretaking, disappearing parts of yourself) but may now feel limiting
– experiment with new ways of relating to yourself and others that allow more truth, contact and vitality.
For some people, this is short-term work around a particular event or decision. For others, it becomes a longer-term process of re‑rooting themselves in a life that feels more their own.
Who I work with?
I work with adults in the second half of life who are navigating grief, trauma and questions of identity and belonging. Many of my clients:
– live between cultures, countries or languages, and feel not fully “from here” or “from there”
– are carrying complex or long‑ago losses, including bereavement, estrangement or the loss of a hoped‑for life
– are in midlife or perimenopause and no longer recognise the person they have become
– have histories of relational, developmental or cultural trauma which have shaped how safe it feels to be themselves with others.
Themes we might explore together
Depending on what you bring, our work might touch on:
– finding a sense of home in yourself after migration or displacement
– making space for grief – including invisible or unrecognised losses
– understanding how your family, culture and social context have shaped your nervous system and relationships
– gently loosening inherited stories about who you “should” be
– opening to new forms of belonging, intimacy and aliveness in the present.
Bereavement and grief: making room for what has been lost
The death of someone important can shake the ground beneath you. You may feel waves of intense emotion, or a numbness that is hard to understand; a sense that the world has moved on while you are still somewhere else entirely. Grief can also stir up older losses, fractures in family relationships, or questions about who you are now that this person is no longer physically here.
This work offers a place where your grief does not have to be hidden, rushed or made palatable. Together we can explore the many layers of your loss – including the changes in identity, belonging and future that often accompany bereavement. Over time, therapy can support you in finding ways to carry your grief that feel more bearable, to stay in relationship with what you have lost, and to re‑engage with life in a way that honours both your pain and your ongoing capacity for love and aliveness.
Midlife transitions and perimenopause: who are you becoming now?
Midlife can bring profound changes: children growing up or leaving home, ageing parents, shifts in work, health or relationships, and, for many women, the physical and emotional intensity of perimenopause. You may find yourself questioning old roles, feeling less tolerant of what once felt acceptable, or noticing a deep pull towards something you can’t quite name.
Therapy can offer a steady place to listen to what midlife is asking of you. Together we can explore your changing body, desires, responsibilities and limits; grieve what has been lost or never lived; and begin to imagine what you want this next chapter of your life to stand for. The focus is not only on managing symptoms or crises, but on supporting a more truthful, spacious way of living – one that allows for greater aliveness, integrity and belonging to yourself.
Trauma Therapy & EMDR
Traumatic and overwhelming experiences can leave lasting traces – in your body, your emotions and your relationships. You may feel constantly on edge or shut down, struggle to trust others, or find that certain situations suddenly bring back intense reactions that seem “out of proportion.” Even when life looks fine from the outside, it can be hard to feel truly safe, present or alive.
In trauma‑focused therapy, we go at a pace that feels manageable. We pay attention to what happened, but also to how your nervous system has had to adapt in order to keep you going. Our work might involve gently expanding your capacity to feel and to connect, finding ways to soothe and regulate, and slowly reclaiming parts of yourself that had to go into hiding in order to survive.
Cultural bereavement and identity: finding home when you live between worlds
Leaving a country, language or community can feel like a kind of death, even when the move was chosen and brings real opportunities. You may find yourself grieving people, places and versions of yourself that others around you cannot see, or feeling as if you belong nowhere – not fully “from here” or “from there.”
In this work, we make space for the losses and longings that come with migration, cultural displacement or growing up between cultures. We might explore how your story has been shaped by family, history and politics, and how this has affected your relationships, work and sense of self. Together we look at what it could mean to create a life in which you feel more rooted, more alive, and more at home in who you are now – without having to deny where you come from.
What to expect in our work together
- Free Consultation (30 mins): A relaxed conversation to explore what brings you here, ask questions, and get a sense of whether we feel like a good fit. There is no obligation to continue.
- First Full Session (50 min): We begin by building safety and trust, taking time to understand your story and what feels most important right now. You set the pace; my role is to offer a steady, compassionate presence.
- Ongoing: Together we adapt integrative tools—such as EMDR to support trauma recovery and somatic awareness to reconnect with your body—to your evolving goals. We regularly check in on what is helpful and where you would like our focus to be.
- Pacing and Safety: Trauma-informed from the start—we track your nervous system cues, build grounding practices, and review progress quarterly.
- Flexibility: Short- or open-ended therapy, tailored to life transitions, belonging, or meaning-making.
- Pricing: Online. Duration 50 min. Cost £60; EMDR duration 90 min: Cost £100
My Therapeutic Approach
I offer trauma-informed, integrative psychotherapy that is attentive to cultural identity, context and life stage.
- Relational and safe: Rooted in empathy, collaboration and respect, always pacing to your readiness.
- Intersectional: Honouring how race, culture, migration, gender, sexuality and class shape both pain and resilience.
- Therapeutic tools: Drawing from EMDR, Gestalt and somatic practices to support processing, regulation and meaning-making (you can read more on my Services page).
If you’d like to explore working together, you are welcome to get in touch for a brief consultation.
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