Areas I work with
People come to therapy when coping starts to cost them. You may look fine on the outside, but inside feel tense, flat, overwhelmed, or quietly exhausted. Often there isn’t one neat problem — it’s a pattern that keeps repeating.
My work focuses on helping you understand and change those patterns at an emotional level, not just manage them.
Anxiety, Stress & Emotional Overload
Anxiety doesn’t always look like panic. It can show up as constant worrying, physical tension, irritability, difficulty switching off, or always feeling on edge. Stress often builds slowly until your system feels overloaded.
In therapy, we look at what drives anxiety beneath the surface — how emotions are managed, avoided, or held in — so relief comes from change over time, not just control.
Depression, Low Mood & Emotional Numbness
Low mood can feel like emptiness, exhaustion, loss of motivation, or a sense of being disconnected from yourself. Sometimes it shows up as harsh self-criticism, withdrawal, or anger turned inward.
Therapy helps you reconnect with feelings that have gone quiet or been shut down, restoring movement, vitality, and a stronger sense of self-contact.
Trauma & Long-Standing Emotional Patterns
Difficult early experiences, chronic stress, or emotional neglect can shape how you relate to yourself and others. You may notice hypervigilance, shame, emotional flooding, withdrawal, or difficulty trusting.
We work carefully with these patterns in the present, helping your nervous system tolerate feelings that once felt unsafe — without forcing you to go faster than you can manage.
Relationship & Identity Difficulties
You may struggle with people-pleasing, boundaries, feeling unseen, or repeating the same dynamics in relationships. Often these patterns are familiar, even when they no longer work.
Together we make sense of how these patterns developed and how to respond differently — with more clarity, agency, and emotional steadiness.
Grief, Loss & Life Transitions
Grief isn’t only about bereavement. It can follow relationship endings, changes in health, identity, work, or the loss of a hoped-for future. For some people, grief is overwhelming; for others it is delayed, complicated, or hard to access.
I offer space to process loss while also working with the emotional patterns it stirs up, so grief can be felt rather than carried silently.
If you’re not sure what you’re struggling with
Some people come to therapy knowing only that something feels off — a sense of emptiness, disconnection, irritability, or not recognising yourself anymore.
You don’t need a label or a perfectly defined problem to begin. We start with what you’re experiencing now and work from there.
If You’d Like to Talk
I offer a free 15 minute initial conversation if you’d like to discuss what’s happening for you and see whether we’re a good fit.