Hello I’m Sarah, a very warm welcome to my profile.
Following a 30-journey of self-discovery and personal healing I trained to be a counsellor.
I find my work enormously rewarding and I feel privileged to walk beside my clients
through their healing. It would be a privilege to walk beside you too.
If you are at a point where you have reached the limits of your emotional resilience, I can offer you a non-judgemental, compassionate and empathic space in which to unpick the events, experiences or relationships that are causing you to struggle. Whether you feel overwhelmed by your emotions or completely numb to them, we will work together to help you to understand why you feel the way that you do. Making sense of your feelings can help you to feel that they are more bearable.
I understand the feelings of rampant anxiety or frozen numbness, particularly following trauma and looking for a therapist can feel like a big step. You may be wondering how, or where to start and, in my experience, the answer lies in the connection between you and your potential therapist. Trust your gut, it will always guide you to the most helpful therapeutic relationship.
A bit about me: I took a route via many people-orientated roles and several degrees, to find my passion. Through teaching adults and school inclusion work I learned that I’m a warm and empathic communicator and I retrained as a personal development coach. I volunteered and worked in male and female prisons, which ignited my interest in trauma work and led to my studying Psychology and an MSc in Forensic Psychology. Ultimately, I took a Diploma in Person-centred Therapeutic Counselling and found my passion. My own long journey and wide life experience enable me to empathise with issues universal to my clients, e.g. shame, loss of many types including through divorce and bereavement. I also understand the legacy of abuse and attachment deficits.
Currently I work in a specialist counselling service with survivors of sexual violence
including historical childhood sexual abuse and I have experience, and a particular interest in, institutional abuse.
My fee is £65 per 60-minute appointment to allow five minutes at the start and end of our session for hellos and confirming next appointment times. This preserves our 50 minute therapeutic hour.
Issues I can help with: Addiction, anxiety, boarding school survival, depression, eating
disorders, health and related issues, identity, personal development coaching,
relationships (family and children), stress and work, trauma.
Counselling modalities: Person-centred and somatically-focused. I am also a Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). I update my knowledge regularly through Continuing Professional Development, most recently on Bio-dynamic breathwork for trauma release and on the impact of emotionally absent mothers.
