Trauma Therapist | Nervous System & Unconscious Healing for Individuals and Couples
I’m a trauma-trained psychotherapist specialising in body-based therapy, nervous system healing, and the integration of unconscious processes. I support individuals and couples in healing from sexual trauma, relationship challenges, emotional dysregulation, and deeply rooted patterns shaped by early attachment wounds or oppressive systems. My approach is compassionate, embodied, and grounded in the belief that lasting transformation happens not only through insight, but through deep reconnection, to the self, the body, and the nervous system.
I work with clients experiencing:
• Sexual trauma and intimacy challenges
• Relationship conflict and communication breakdowns
• Emotional numbness, anxiety, or disconnection
• Addictive patterns and coping mechanisms
• Religious trauma and spiritual abuse
• Power dynamics in families, institutions, and cultural systems
• Intergenerational trauma and inherited emotional patterns
Many people I work with have tried traditional talking therapy but still feel stuck. That’s often because trauma isn’t only held in the mind — it lives in the body and nervous system, often showing up through unconscious emotional patterns. Healing requires a different kind of therapeutic approach, one that includes the body in the process.
My practice draws on Somatic Experiencing, Transactional Analysis, and sexuality-focused bodywork, therapeutic approaches that help regulate the nervous system, access the body’s innate intelligence, and engage unconscious processes. These methods support trauma resolution at its roots, rebuild trust in the body, and restore your capacity for safety, pleasure, and connection.
For couples, I offer support in rebuilding trust, improving communication, and fostering emotionally and physically connected relationships. For individuals, I hold space to explore identity, desire, boundaries, and emotional resilience in a way that honours both your personal story and wider collective context.
My aim is to help you cultivate healthier, more empowered relationships, with yourself and with others, through nervous system repair, unconscious healing, and body-oriented therapeutic work.
Experience
My clinical background includes work in a women’s prison, a sexual abuse support centre, a faith-based organisation, and an addiction recovery charity. These experiences have deepened my respect for the ways trauma, shame, and systems of control shape our lives — and how therapy can offer a path towards liberation, agency, and reconnection.
Qualifications
- Level 7 Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy accredited member of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society
- Level 6 Diploma in Counselling accredited member of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society
- Qualified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), accredited by the European Association of Somatic Experiencing (EASE)
- Clinical Hypnotherapist accredited member of the National Hypnotherapy Society
Additional Training and CPD
- Uncovering the Roots of Sexuality Trauma - Ariel Giarretto COSRT
- Kink-Affirming Psychosexual and Relationship Therapy Practices
- Pressure to perform changing sexual norms and impact on sexual well being of young people
- Common Female Sexual Difficulties & Treatment options
- Sexual grief and loss
- Working with partners affected by compulsive sexual behaviours and porn addiction
- Autism and Relationships
- Understanding and responding to domestic violence and abuse in couple relationships
Areas of counselling I work with
- Abuse
- Addiction
- ADHD
- Anxiety
- ASD/Neurodivergent
- Bereavement and Loss
- Birth and Bonding
- Couples Counselling
- Depression
- Divorce and Separation
- Eating Disorders
- Emotional Abuse
- Faith and Culture
- Low Self-Esteem
- Physical Abuse
- PTSD and Trauma
- Race and Diversity
- Sexual Abuse and Rape
- Sexual Performance/Drive
- Shame and Guilt