Where would you like to begin?
You do not need to know in advance where to start.
Sessions are available in person in Shinfield, Reading, Berkshire, and online.
Many people arrive with a general sense that something feels difficult, stuck, overwhelming, or hard to shift. Some know they are looking for trauma therapy, couple therapy, or neurofeedback. Others simply know that life, relationships, or their nervous system no longer feel manageable in the same way.
This page is here to help you get your bearings. If you would rather think it through together, you are very welcome to book a free 20-minute consultation.
If you are looking for clinical supervision, there is a separate route further down the page.
Whatever the starting point, the work is relational, trauma-informed, and carefully paced.
Some people begin with the kind of therapy they are looking for. Others begin with what feels most familiar — including symptoms, nervous-system strain, relationship patterns, or the impact of trauma.
Individual psychotherapy
For many people, individual psychotherapy is the main starting point.
This may be the right route if you are living with anxiety, low mood, self-criticism, relational difficulties, emotional shutdown, dissociation, or recurring ways of coping that no longer sit easily.
Emotional shutdown may feel like going blank, withdrawing, losing access to words, or appearing to function on the outside while feeling collapsed or unreachable inside.
It may also be helpful if you are not sure exactly what the difficulty is, but know that something feels hard to shift.
Individual psychotherapy tends to suit people looking for more than symptom relief alone. The work can support deeper understanding, greater regulation, and more room to respond differently over time.
Symptoms & experiences
If what feels clearest is what you are experiencing, rather than the kind of therapy you need, Symptoms & experiences may be a helpful place to begin.
It offers a gentle overview of some of the ways distress can show up — emotionally, physically, relationally, and in the nervous system.
This may be especially helpful if you recognise yourself more in lived experience than in therapy categories.
Trauma
If trauma, chronic stress, or nervous-system strain may be part of what you are living with, the Trauma page may be a helpful place to begin.
In these situations, therapy may need to attend not only to what you understand consciously, but also to what your body and nervous system may still be responding to now.
This can be especially relevant if you experience shutdown, hypervigilance, emotional overwhelm, dissociation, people-pleasing, shame, chronic tension, or a sense that your system is still trying to protect you.
A trauma-informed and body-aware approach can help the work move at a pace your system can stay with.
When difficulties show up most strongly in relationships
Sometimes the main difficulty is not only within one person, but in what happens between people.
This may show up through conflict, distance, repeated misunderstandings, mistrust, painful silences, emotional withdrawal, or difficulty staying open when things feel strained.
Couple therapy may be the clearer starting point if the difficulty is mainly within an intimate relationship.
For some people, where these difficulties show up more broadly in connection with others, group psychotherapy may also be a helpful possibility to discuss.
ILF neurofeedback support
For some people, ILF neurofeedback can be a helpful adjunct to psychotherapy, especially where sleep difficulties, high reactivity, brain fog, overwhelm, fatigue, 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 at this stage, and whether psychotherapy on its own, neurofeedback support, or a combination of both is the best place to begin.
I usually offer ILF neurofeedback within an ongoing psychotherapeutic process, or alongside other clinical work where this seems appropriate and clearly held.
ILF neurofeedback is available in person only in Shinfield, Reading, Berkshire.
Looking for clinical supervision instead?
If you are a therapist or practitioner looking for clinical supervision, there is a separate page with more information about how I work.
My supervision is reflective, relational, and trauma-informed, with attention to clinical process, formulation, practitioner development, and the impact of complex therapeutic work.
Practical note
Sessions are offered in person in Shinfield, Reading, Berkshire, and online.
ILF neurofeedback is offered in person only.
If you would like a clearer sense of what to expect, how therapy begins, or how ILF neurofeedback fits within psychotherapy, you may find the FAQ helpful ›
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 hope might become different, and where it may make most sense to begin.
We can think together about whether individual psychotherapy, trauma-informed work, couple therapy, ILF neurofeedback, supervision, or another form of support seems most appropriate.
If it does not seem like the right fit, I will be honest and help you think about alternatives.
There is no pressure to continue.