Individual Psychological Therapy
We offer initial psychological therapy assessments, and weekly individual psychological therapy for adults.
Our service adopts a trauma informed, anti-oppressive, and intersectional stance. Our approach is integrative, drawing on a range of psychological, therapeutic and holistic practices as appropriate, to best support you. Some of the approaches that we adopt are listed below.
Every approach starts with an individual assessment appointment. Following this, if we feel that we can work well together, we can contract for further weekly individual therapy.
If you aren’t ready for weekly psychological therapy but would like an assessment to begin to explore your experiences, difficulties and possible avenues moving forward, then we can offer that too.
You also have the option to add on a written summary of our assessment session.
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Integrative Psychology
Integrative Psychology weaves together multiple therapeutic approaches to support your unique needs. Rather than a one-size-fits-all model, this framework honors the complexity of your lived experience. It’s a whole-person approach that acknowledges not just your mind, but your body, your story, your lineage, and your strength.
Together, we draw from traditional psychological therapy models – psychodynamic, cognitive behavioural and humanistic therapies; mindfulness-based traditions; somatic practices; cultural and ancestral wisdoms to support your healing, growth, and wholeness.
Compassion Focussed (Trauma) Therapy
Success doesn’t silence self-doubt, and strength doesn’t erase shame. Compassion-Focused Therapy helps individuals carrying the weight of complex trauma or generational pain and struggling with shame and self-criticism. Rooted in neuroscience, evolutionary psychology and cultural humility, CFT supports you in shifting the inner narrative shaped by trauma, perfectionism, and survival and to cultivate inner warmth, safety, and kindness. This approach helps restore a sense of self-worth, kindness, emotional safety and permission to soften.
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing
You may have worked hard to outpace your past, but some experiences linger in the nervous system. EMDR offers a path for healing trauma, without needing to retell or relive every painful detail. Whether you’re holding childhood wounds, racial trauma, or relational ruptures, EMDR helps reprocess these memories so they no longer define or destabilise you. It’s quiet but powerful work—freeing up space for ease, clarity, and peace.
Somatic Therapy & Breathwork
Your body remembers, even when your mind moves on. Somatic therapy invites you to come home to your body with gentleness and curiosity. It’s especially powerful when you’ve learned to suppress, push through, or stay in “go-mode.” Through breathwork, grounding, and mindful movement, we support your nervous system in unwinding from chronic stress. These practices help you reclaim rest, regulate your energy, and deepen your connection to self – not just for survival, but for thriving.
Affirming and Inclusive Couples Therapy
We offer a supportive, non-judgmental space for all relationship types — romantic or platonic, monogamous or non-monogamous, queer, trans, or gender-diverse. Whether you’re partners, co-parents, close friends, or chosen family, your relationship is valid and worthy of care. Our practice affirms LGBTQ+ identities and honors the full spectrum of connection. Together, we can navigate communication, boundaries, intimacy, trust, and transition in ways that reflect your unique bond, values and goals.
We start with an introductory call with each person; followed by a 2-hour joint exploration/assessment session.
If we agree to work with each other, we contract for ongoing work as appropriate. Each ongoing session is typically 90 minutes, and takes place fortnightly or monthly.
Bespoke Services
Want to explore a service that isn’t quite covered in the given descriptions? Please get in touch with your thoughts and we can explore whether our service can offer something better suited to you.
Clinical Supervision
We offer trauma informed, integrative clinical supervision for qualified psychological therapists. Typically, this takes place monthly with the option for ad hoc bookings in between if needed.
Supervision is usually offered individually however, if you’d like to explore the option of group supervision then let us know.
Experiences we can support you with
We support a range of experiences and difficulties, some of which are listed below. However, the language we have used here may not be the language you use to describe your experience and so, if you don’t see something here that fits but you would like to work with us, get in touch and we can explore this further together.
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Trauma
For years, traditional psychological therapy has focussed on trauma in its appearance as PTSD (“post-traumatic stress syndrome”); however, many people experience trauma without developing the features connected to this particular “diagnosis.” This might include difficult relationships with others, bodily disconnection, or emotional reactions that feel intense and uncontrollable.
Our service is a trauma informed service, this means that as part of our exploration and understanding of you and your experiences; we will also explore and understand the impact of your personal (individual), intergenerational and transgenerational traumas.
Stress and Burnout
Stress and burnout are two ‘buzzwords’ frequently doing the rounds these days – and for good reason. So many of us are realising that we have lived with high levels of stress for years often without realising it; and have experienced burnout without having been able to name it.
We can support you to identify how these two experiences feature in your life, the circumstances contributing to (and maintaining them; and, importantly, to find practical, realistic and sustainable ways forward.
"Not good enough" Belief system
Existing with a belief that you are “not good enough” (often considered an aspect of low self esteem or depression) can often be at the heart of so many of our psychologcial and personal challenges.
We can support you to identify the ways that this belief system shows up in your life; understand the experiences that have shaped this belief; and to find a compassionate way towards “enoughness.”
Mood and emotional dysregulation
Ever found yourself thinking that your mood or emotional responses just never seem balanced? This might include intense and uncontrollable anxiety or stress, low mood/depression, repeat cycles of burnout or feeling that your emotions just go from 0-100. These experiences can often undermine our sense of self-trust and confidence.
We can help you to identify out where this “dysregulation” has come from, to develop ways of better managing your mood/emotions and to work towards resolving the underlying experiences that have contributed to that “dysregulation” in the first place.
Family Estrangement
So many of us have complex family dynamics and have experiences of emotional estrangement (e.g. a feeling of emotional disconnect or lack of emotional closeness) or of physical estrangement (e.g. no-limited contact).
In a society that positions ‘family’ as sacrosanct, estrangement (as well as the dynamics contributing to it) can be extremely traumatic and shame inducing.
Wherever you are with this complex and often ‘ambiguous’ loss, we can support you in finding a healthy and compassionate way forward.
Interpersonal difficulties
It is in relationships that we “hurt, healed and in which we become who we are” (Stephen Joseph – Psychologist and researcher). They are, after all, at the heart of what it means to be human.
Often, we have difficult relational/interpersonal experiences that we never have the opportunity to resolve or heal from and we can end up developing interpersonal patterns that maintain a lot of our distress.
If you are struggling with non-familial relationships (romantic, sexual or platonic), we can support you either individually or in couples work.
Marriage and Parenting preparation
Making a formalised commitment through marriage (or civil partnership) can throw up so many challenging but important conversations and unfortunately, often we haven’t been given many ‘tools’ for how to navigate those conversations usefully.
Likewise, deciding whether to (or not) become a parent can bring up a range of questions, uncertainties and, often, any of our own challenges with how we were parented.
We offer a compassionate, open space to unpick all of the things you need to to be able to make the best decision for you.