Trauma & PTSD

Whether you've experienced a single traumatic event or ongoing trauma, I provide trauma-informed support to help you process difficult experiences safely.

I have particular experience supporting:

• Survivors of domestic violence

• Displacement and war-related trauma

• Complex PTSD and developmental trauma

• Childhood trauma and attachment wounds

What we work on:

• Processing traumatic memories

• Managing flashbacks, nightmares, and intrusive thoughts

• Rebuilding a sense of safety and stability

• Regaining control and agency in your life

For some clients, this involves careful stabilisation and symptom management first.

Institutional & Moral Trauma

Some forms of trauma arise not from single events, but from prolonged exposure to systems that fail to protect, listen, or act ethically.

This may include experiences with:

• Immigration processes

• Legal systems

• Healthcare

• Education

• Social services

• Workplace environments

Common experiences include:

• Chronic stress and hypervigilance

• Emotional numbness or exhaustion

• Loss of trust in authority, systems, or self

• Shame or self-doubt despite high competence

• A sense of being "broken" by circumstances rather than illness

Therapy offers a space to restore dignity, meaning, and inner stability — without pathologising understandable responses to overwhelming situations.

Anxiety & Panic Disorder

Anxiety can feel overwhelming and isolating. Together, we'll work to understand what's driving your anxiety and develop practical strategies to manage it.

This work can be short-term and focused, or part of a longer therapeutic process.

What we work on:

• Panic attacks and physical symptoms

• Generalising worry and rumination

• Social anxiety

• Health anxiety

• Specific fears and phobias

Depression & Low Mood

Depression affects every aspect of life — your energy, motivation, relationships, and sense of hope. I provide compassionate support to help you understand your depression and find pathways toward feeling better.

What we work on:

• Low mood and loss of pleasure

• Negative thinking patterns

• Isolation and withdrawal

• Finding motivation and meaning

• Building resilience

Relationship Difficulties

Relationships shape our lives, and when they're struggling, so do we. I work with individuals navigating relationship challenges, including co-dependency, boundaries, communication, and patterns from the past.

What we work on:

• Communication patterns

• Boundaries and co-dependency

• Trust and intimacy

• Repeating relationship patterns

• Ending relationships

• Recovering from relationship trauma

Life Transitions

Life changes — including career shifts, relocation, parenthood, relationship changes, or migration — can be deeply destabilising, even when they are chosen or positive.

Therapy during life transitions can help you:

• Process uncertainty and mixed emotions

• Regain clarity and direction

• Strengthen internal stability during change

The focus is often on integration, decision-making, and emotional grounding.

Working with Mothers & Parents

Parenthood carries unique emotional, relational, and ethical challenges.

I have particular experience supporting:

• Mothers navigating complex family or legal situations

• Parents managing chronic stress, guilt, or emotional overload

• Women striving to protect their children while maintaining their own psychological wellbeing

Therapy offers a space where parental responsibility is understood in its full emotional and moral complexity — without judgment or idealisation.

Self-Esteem & Identity

Difficulties with self-worth often develop in response to relational experiences, trauma, displacement, or prolonged responsibility.

In therapy, we may work on:

• Self-criticism and shame

• Feeling "not enough" despite competence

• Uncertainty about identity, belonging, or direction

This work supports self-compassion, internal coherence, and a more stable sense of self.

Cultural Identity & Displacement

Having lived experience of displacement, I understand the unique challenges of navigating identity, belonging, and rebuilding life in a new culture.

I work with:

• Refugees and asylum seekers

• Ukrainian and Russian-speaking communities

• Migrants and expats

• Anyone experiencing displacement trauma

• Cultural identity struggles

• Intergenerational trauma

High Insight, Limited Behavioural Change

Some clients come to therapy with high intelligence, strong insight, and a capacity for reflection. While this is a strength, it can also become a source of frustration.

Insight alone does not create change.

Without emotional and behavioural integration, insight may lead to:

• Demotivation ("I understand, but nothing changes")

• Feelings of inner inefficiency or self-doubt

• Secondary depressive or anxiety symptoms

In my work, insight is treated as a starting point. Therapy focuses on integration — emotional, cognitive, and practical — so that understanding becomes lived experience, sustainable action, and real behavioural change.

Bereavement & Loss

Losing someone — whether through death, a relationship ending, or other loss — can feel unbearable. I have experience supporting people through profound bereavement, including loss by suicide.

What we work on:

• Processing grief

• Navigating complex emotions

• Finding ways to continue living

• Honouring loss while moving forward

👉 For a more detailed explanation of how I work therapeutically, please see My Approach.