Are you looking for a warm and empathic therapist who can listen to your needs and understand your story?
My Background
My name is Sara and I come from the North of England. I have a teaching background, specialising in Art and have worked with a range of ages, abilities, learning styles and personalities. I am a mother of two boys.
As a therapist, I am a fully qualified ( PG Dip) Integrative Psychotherapist, registered with the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
Qualifications
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Supportive Psychotherapy
Are you looking for a warm and empathic therapist who can listen to your needs and understand your story? I offer a non-judgmental ear, working with you to identify and explore your issues. Through compassion, respect and acceptance, I support you to develop the belief, ability and skills to create the changes you wish to see in your life.
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Approach
My approach involves an initial assessment whereupon a range of models and therapeutic tools can then be implemented. This can include one or more approaches combined, such as; person-centred, trauma-focused, relational, experiential, psychodynamic and body-focused models. Having a multifaceted toolkit enables me to tailor the treatment to your specific needs and support you on your journey.
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Training
My training in psychotherapy enables me to support you with greater depth, perhaps looking at the underlying causes of an issue. I work on many levels to help you address difficult emotions, behaviour, thoughts, beliefs and sensations. Treatment can typically involve therapeutic techniques and exercises to calm the nervous system and help support better emotional regulation.
Want to learn more about trauma?
Impact
The impact of trauma can create complex relational and emotional difficulties which can drive us to avoid external situations and internal experience. In attempting to cope it can feel our only option at times, is to behave protectively which can flatten our lives, deaden our emotions and limit joy. Through triggers and flashbacks, associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, our nervous system can reactivate our unprocessed trauma. Here, we can feel like we are re-experiencing it all over again. In understanding how our protectiveness can prevent the integration of our trauma, we can free ourselves from its’ intense grip and discharge the physiological pressure stored internally in the body.
Complex Trauma
If impacted by trauma from a young age our nervous system can become ‘keyed up’ (hypervigilant) and we can struggle to trust others, form healthy relationships and function well. We can also become disconnected from ourselves, our environment and other people.
Sometimes words just don’t cut it.
One of the symptoms of trauma (alexithymia), means we can become unable to describe how we are feeling. In this instance talking therapy can be inadequate. Here, the opportunity to explore your emotions and experience can be facilitated in a non-verbal way, through creativity, music and body-focused therapy. This can include working with personal objects, exploring emotions through sand tray therapy and drawing.