Ways we can work together
You do not need to know in advance where to start.
Many people arrive with a general sense that something feels difficult, stuck, overwhelming, or hard to shift, without being sure what kind of support makes most sense.
This page is here to help you get your bearings. If you would rather think that through together, you are welcome to book a free 20-minute consultation.
Whatever the starting point, the work is relational, trauma-informed, and carefully paced.
The diagram below offers a visual overview of how I hold the work across different starting points and areas of difficulty. It is not a fixed sequence, but a map of the therapeutic process and the kinds of support that may be involved.
Individual psychotherapy
For many people, individual psychotherapy is the main starting point.
This may be the right place to begin if you are struggling with anxiety, overwhelm, low mood, self-criticism, relationship difficulties, or patterns that keep repeating even when part of you understands them.
The work is relational, thoughtful, and carefully paced, with space to make sense of what feels difficult and to explore how things have come to be as they are.
Over time, therapy can become a place to understand yourself more clearly, feel less alone with what is difficult, and find more room to respond differently.
Trauma-focused work
Sometimes the difficulty is shaped by trauma, chronic stress, shock, hypervigilance, shutdown, or dissociation.
In these situations, therapy may need to attend not only to what you understand consciously, but also to what your body and nervous system still react to now. This can include patterns of protection, disconnection, overwhelm, collapse, or a system that remains organised around threat long after the original danger has passed.
This is often where a more explicitly trauma-informed and body-aware approach can be especially helpful.
ILF neurofeedback support
For some people, ILF neurofeedback can be a helpful support alongside psychotherapy, especially where sleep difficulties, overwhelm, brain fog, high reactivity, or difficulty settling are making daily life — or therapy itself — harder to manage.
It is not something I suggest automatically. The question is always what seems most likely to help, and whether psychotherapy on its own, or psychotherapy with additional support, is the better place to begin.
Relationship work: couples and groups
Sometimes the main difficulty is not only within one person, but in what happens between people.
Couple psychotherapy can help with conflict, distance, repeated misunderstandings, trust, and connection. Group psychotherapy offers a relational space to explore patterns, try new ways of relating, and feel less alone alongside others.
Symptoms & experiences
If what feels difficult is clearer than what kind of support you need, Symptoms & experiences offers a gentle overview of the kinds of difficulties that can bring people to therapy — including anxiety, shutdown, overwhelm, dissociation, relationship difficulties, and other patterns that can be hard to make sense of.
Sessions are offered in person in Shinfield, Reading, Berkshire and online. ILF neurofeedback is offered in person only.
If you are unsure where to begin
You do not need to work that out on your own. A free 20-minute consultation gives us a chance to talk about what feels difficult, what you are hoping for, and where it may make most sense to begin.
If it does not seem like the right fit, I will be honest and help you think about alternatives.