Personalised therapy - because one-size does not fit all. We don't ask to be born into this world, and yet here we find ourselves. Especially if we're young.
With over 30 years experience in the mental health arenas, I can offer tailored work to suit your needs - counselling, hypnotherapy, lifeline rewrites, stress reduction, trauma recovery. Sometimes the situation in which we find ourselves feels instinctively 'wrong', unfair, but the only option open to us is to manage as best we can. Or old. Or any age really. When the 'managing as best we can' leaves us drained, or unsure of who we are, feeling guilty for 'not doing better', or angry at the world in general, that's the time to seek support and help to make sense of what is going on. If your experiences have included being outright abused, neglected, ridiculed, bullied, ignored and dismissed, or you have witnessed trauma the like of which no one ought to see or feel, then getting support can prove to be a lifeline. Just because you may be able to look around and see others apparently doing better, seemingly having a good life, or having it 'worse' than you, this does not mean that your efforts are failing. Or that your difficulties are in any way irrelevant or too small to trouble someone with. If you have been told you have depression, anxiety, PTSD, BPD, DID, or any mental health diagnosis, you will be welcome here - I don't automatically exclude anyone because of a label. Knowing that there is someone here who not only cares about your situation, but also how you are, and who could also help you to gain some level of peace of mind and a life that feels better, I hope gives you some hope. If you feel you want some help, get in touch. I have years of experience of helping fellow human beings to battle their demons, regain their equilibrium, put down the burdens carried for others, and feel better. Live better. You can do this. And I could help you - because I've been there.
22/12/2025
I'm sending out the warmest of thoughts
to those who are feeling lonely, left out, drained or empty this Christmas 🎄
It's not all tinsel and glitter 🪩
If you need independent, confidential mental and emotional support - keep this number for reference
07906260310
(Caveat - Not an emergency service, but more a private practice service based on respect, understanding, and the willingness to be available for as long or as short a time as is needed)
21/12/2025
And now that Solstice is here, we can look forward to the returning sunshine and longer hours of light.
Happy Solstice ➡️🌞⬅️
20/12/2025
You are allowed to not feel that joy that others seem to insist you have to feel.
You are allowed to have duvet and PJ days.
You are allowed to feel exhausted, overwhelmed and fed up.
You are allowed to take a break.
But society and other people's expectations can feel all-powerful, and sometimes it's about finding that 3 minute time-out with the bathroom door shut to just breathe.
Sometimes it's about not staying till the very end of that night out.
Sometimes it's about tapping out and not joining every party you're invited to.
To look after you, for those 3 minutes, or that evening, or that day under the duvet.
Looking back, how were you taught to cope with emotions?
- by avoiding them?
- by ignoring them?
- by suppressing them?
Because people showing their emotions were scary?
But here’s a thing - Avoidance doesn't make it go away. Ignoring it can add fuel to dysregulation in our nervous system.
The fire alarm 🚨 is set to Sensitive.
Sometimes feel like your emotions are too much?
Can't face them , or you believe your symptoms must mean that you’re doing it all wrong, not avoiding hard enough, not powering through quickly enough? Not taking the right medication?
Not relaxing The Right Way?
In my work, we don’t follow diversions, or smash through important feelings.
We greet what’s here, gently, honestly, and we work together to create the safety needed to name and hold it without adding more threat to the mix.
The aim always being for your mind and body to be able to start to trust you again and begin to feel less like a walking fire alarm 🚨
If being triggered into alarm mode less often sounds like something you'd like to work towards, get in touch .
Reopening after the festive time on 5th January 2026.
Feel free to tarry a while, perhaps make a cup of tea, and read through some information in here about me and what I could offer you to help you improve your life. The blog gets new posts and updates regularly, so do check back for new ponderings.
17/12/2025
Thank you 🙏😊
Thank you to everyone who has invested and trusted in me this past year.
Thank you to everyone who has replied to contacts about the need for a price increase, to let me know that they understand 🙏
Thank you 😊
With these changes, I can look towards the next year with some hope of being able to balance the books and continue supporting folk.
Kindest,
Ros 🙏
(pic - the youngest cat on his look-out post)
17/12/2025
Shine that shiny light!
Shine it bold, shine it bright!
The Big is also in the small,
Though others might not understand the call
To shine on, shiny one
With your rays bright as the sun 🌞
< even the smallest of kind acts - like opening a door for someone - can gift such human warmth 🤗>
16/12/2025
Always felt it was almost rude for anyone to insist that another person "gets fixed in 6" - and that the limited sessions available through the NHS is unhelpful for deeply traumatized folk.
16/12/2025
We need mental health care rooted not in the policing of thought and behaviour but in solidarity and understanding
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After many years in the NHS, military and the private sector working in mental health care settings as a qualified nurse, I can now bring that experience to counselling and therapy services as an independent professional.
Working with an independent therapist, you can be assured that your work won't be limited by any arbitrary timelines set by organisations whose aims may be set to other agendas than concentrating on you. Your time here is important, whether that be as someone seeking support with a specific issue or a challenging life situation, or as a student or colleague gaining mentorship or clinical supervision.
I am fully qualified, with a BSc in Integrative Counselling, and regulated through my membership of the National Council of Psychotherapists.
If you are finding life tricky, facing stress, bereavement, feeling angry or anxious for a lot of your time, leaving the military or having issues from your Service, been told you have depression or other mental health matter, or even if you are finding it difficult to know how to stop a habit of thinking or of doing, then counselling may be useful for you.
I have worked with those struggling with cPTSD, DID, GAD, sudden unexpected loss and facing court procedures, adult survivors of childhood sexual and ritual abuse, as well as those who are run ragged by the unrelenting stresses of modern life and need somewhere to turn.
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