Individual Therapy

Understanding your relationships often begins with understanding yourself.

Our relationship with ourselves underpins every other relationship we have.

Individual therapy can include working with trauma, exploring identity, the impact of disability or chronic illness, grief and loss, addiction, and the changes in self and relationship that can come with midlife.

How easily we recognise our own needs.

Whether we trust our feelings.

How comfortable we are setting boundaries.

What happens when someone is disappointed in us.

Whether closeness feels safe.

What we believe we need to do to be loved.

Individual psychotherapy offers space to explore those patterns with curiosity rather than judgement.

“Who we are isn’t fixed. Therapy can give us space to understand who we have been, who we are now, and who we are becoming.”

You might come to therapy because...

· You notice the same patterns appearing in different relationships

· You lose yourself in relationships or struggle to know what you need

· You find it difficult to trust, depend on others or allow people close

· You fear rejection, abandonment or being 'too much'

· You avoid conflict or feel responsible for keeping everyone happy

· You are navigating dating, separation, divorce or the end of a relationship

· A partner does not want to attend couples therapy but you want to understand your part in the relationship

· You are exploring identity, self-esteem, shame, boundaries or belonging

· A diagnosis or significant life change has altered how you understand yourself

· You simply want a deeper understanding of yourself and how you relate to others

Sexuality, Identity & LGBTQ+ Experiences

Individual therapy can offer space to explore sexuality, gender, identity, coming out, relationships, belonging, shame, family or cultural expectations, or questions that do not yet have a neat label. You do not need to arrive with certainty. The work can simply begin with curiosity about who you are and what feels authentic to you.

Disability, Chronic Illness & Midlife Change

Disability, chronic illness and midlife changes can alter how we experience our bodies, identity, independence, work, sexuality, parenting and relationships. They can bring grief for what has changed alongside adaptation, resilience and new ways of understanding ourselves.

Addiction, Recovery & Relationships

I also work individually with people affected by addiction, whether you are questioning your own relationship with a substance or behaviour, living in recovery, or trying to understand how another person's addiction has affected you. Therapy can explore shame, coping, attachment, boundaries, relapse and recovery, identity and the relationship patterns surrounding addiction.