Trauma Therapy

Recovering from traumatic events is about more than easing the emotional pain of the past. It’s also about reclaiming and rediscovering your life in the present, accepting what cannot be changed and finding new ways to grow where change is possible.

Working with post-traumatic responses is a specialist area of my practice. With extensive experience in this field, I’m passionate about helping clients reduce distress, feel safer in themselves, and reconnect with the present moment.

In therapy, you’ll be met with acceptance, compassion, and support to make meaningful changes at a pace that feels safe and manageable. Trauma therapy can be effective both online and in person. Whatever you’ve experienced, my role is to support you and draw on the most effective, evidence-based approaches to help you reclaim your life

.My trauma-focused approach draws on a range of evidence-based models tailored to each person’s unique experience. Therapy may begin with grounding techniques and emotion regulation, or it may focus on processing intrusive images, flashbacks, nightmares, and painful memories that continue to cause distress. Whatever the starting point, the process is guided by your needs, strengths, and readiness, with support every step of the way.

I have extensive experience working with people from diverse backgrounds, professions, identities, and circumstances who are living with the lasting impact of trauma. Each client I’ve supported has deepened my clinical understanding. I’m especially mindful of the importance of safety, choice, and control throughout therapy, particularly when exploring deeply distressing memories. I approach this work with confidence, sensitivity, and openness, ensuring the pace and direction always remain in your hands. My role is to provide you with the tools and support needed to lift and soften painful emotions connected to the past, helping you move towards greater freedom.

Understanding Trauma

Trauma is the body and mind’s response to experiences that overwhelm our ability to cope, leaving us feeling unsafe, powerless, or deeply threatened. It can change how we process information and respond to the world, often keeping us in survival mode long after the event or events are over.

Trauma can develop in many ways at any stage of life. Some people experience Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) following a single overwhelming event such as an accident, assault, loss or medical emergency. Others develop Complex PTSD (CPTSD) after repeated or prolonged traumatic experiences, often in childhood or within relationships, such as abuse, neglect, or domestic violence. Acute Stress Reactions may occur in the immediate aftermath of trauma, with intense physical and emotional responses that sometimes resolve but can evolve into longer-term difficulties. Trauma can also underpin presentations such as Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder (EUPD/BPD), where early attachment trauma, chronic invalidation, or repeated relational harm contribute to difficulties with emotional regulation, identity, and relationships.

Regardless of how it begins, trauma can affect every part of life. Common impacts include intrusive memories, flashbacks, nightmares, hypervigilance, dissociation or derealisation and heightened anxiety, as well as avoidance of reminders of the trauma. Many people experience intense emotions that feel difficult to regulate, sudden mood changes, chronic feelings of shame, self-blame, or emptiness, chronic rumination and difficulties trusting others or maintaining relationships. Trauma usually leads to problems with sleep, concentration, memory, and a persistent sense of being “on edge.” Over time, these experiences can erode self-worth, limit daily functioning, and leave individuals feeling disconnected from themselves and others.

The important thing to remember is that trauma responses are not conscious or controllable choices and they do not discriminate. Being human means we are all vulnerable to these responses because of how our brains and bodies are wired to keep us safe in the face of threat. These reactions are shaped by our biology and our interactions with the environment, and they are not a flaw or a failing.

Therapy offers a space to understand these responses as normal adaptations to overwhelming experiences and to begin the process of healing, moving from survival to safety, and from disconnection to a renewed sense of self and possibility

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Email: Cognitive-psychotherapy@proton.me

Phone: +44 7729 267218

Address: Fourth Floor, Studio 410. 95A Rye Ln, London SE15 4ST