Nya - Counsellor and Therapist

28/04/2025

If you are looking for face to face therapy in Sunbury or via video call anywhere in the UK, I have 2 new spaces just become available. Do take a look at my BACP page and book in for an initial session to see if you would like to work together.

Therapy is for everyone and changes lives.

17/02/2025

"I’m curious if you might find yourself attending therapy with the cognitive ‘problem-fixing’ part of yourself trying to do all the work, feeling that there is something external you need to ‘do’ to feel better, whilst your more vulnerable emotional self is closed away and unavailable for emotional connection and reparation?"

Does this resonate with anyone? I know it might for some of my clients.

Quote from unknown other counsellor

13/01/2025

Morning all. A theme that comes up in my practice often is clients who did not have their emotional needs met by their parents as children. It can be hard for some clients to "do the work" there as some people can have feelings around being disloyal or wondering if things were as bad as they remember. Of course we all have many parts and there can be good childhood memories and we can love our family but the fact still remains that our behaviours in the present have been impacted by how we were brought up.

What we seek to do in psychotherapy is to understand and bring things previously buried into self awareness to make shifts - we are not here to blame anyone else or judge. The very people who did not meet our emotional needs were very likely not to have had their own needs met. Understanding, exploring and remaining curious can be so powerful.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Adult-Children-Emotionally-Immature-Parents/dp/1626251703

A book to consider below.

I have space for 2 new clients from this month if you or anyone you know wants to explore this or any other issues in 2025.

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents