Individual Psychotherapy

Hello and welcome,

Finding the right therapist and beginning therapy can feel like a big step. I want to acknowledge the courage it takes to do something just for you.

I believe everyone can benefit from therapy. Taking time to focus on yourself - your wellbeing, your feelings, and your experiences - can be powerful and life-changing. In the busyness of life, getting to know ourselves and our ways of being can bring deeper understanding, greater resilience during challenging times, and help us move towards our fullest potential.

How Psychotherapy Can Help

Therapy can support you with a range of emotional and mental health challenges, including:

• Anxiety or feeling overwhelmed

• Coping with stress or recovering from stressful events

• Depression, sadness, grief, or emptiness

• Low self-confidence or self-esteem

• Relationship difficulties, or feeling stuck in unsatisfying or destructive patterns

• The emotional aftermath of abuse

• Bereavement, separation, divorce, unemployment, or other life changes

My Approach

As a naturally creatively curious individual, I bring both these aspects into the therapy room to help support you in expressing and processing your feelings, gaining insight, and finding new ways to cope with life’s challenges. I am humanistically trained, meaning I view you as a unique individual with potential, and your challenges with the mindset of what's happened to you, rather than what is wrong with you.

I recognise the lasting impact of trauma and stressful experiences that can leave you feeling unsafe or vulnerable and will work with you to feel safety, trust and security in relationship once again. With this in mind I integrate other modalities such as unconscious process, human development and attachment that may offer insight and understanding, whilst also strengthening our therapeutic relationship. I offer a compassionate, non-judgemental, and honest space - a place where we can explore, celebrate, and value your unique experiences together.

Therapy with me is a space where you can confidentially talk about things you may not feel able to share elsewhere. We will work together to help you heal from trauma, improve relationships (including the one with yourself), and build a life that feels more aligned with your true self.

I am a registered member of the BACP, adhering to their ethical framework for professional practice. I also maintain a high level of ongoing professional development to keep my skills and knowledge up to date.

Areas of Experience

I currently work with, or have previously worked with, the following areas:

• Abuse

• Anxiety

• Bereavement

• Blended families

• Bullying

• Burnout

• Cancer

• Caring roles

• Chronic illness

• Depression

• Dyslexia

• Family issues

• Feeling sad

• Grief

• Health anxiety

• LGBTQ+

• Loneliness

• Low self-confidence

• Low self-esteem

• Purity Culture

• Relationship problems

• Religious Trauma and deconstruction

• Separation and divorce

• Spirituality

• Stress

• Trauma

Special Interest: LGBTQ+, Purity Culture, Religious Trauma, and Religious Deconstruction

Over the years, my path into psychotherapy has been shaped by both professional training and my own lived experience. I’m a queer woman, married to my wife, and often my work sits at the intersection of identity, belonging and the tender process of coming home to yourself.

Around six years ago, I left a high-demand religious environment - a decision that marked the beginning of a deep period of unravelling and rebuilding. That transition asked me to look closely at who I really was beneath external expectations, and to rediscover parts of myself that had been quiet or suppressed. It taught me about courage, grief, liberation, and the slow, meaningful work of re-authoring your own story.

This personal journey informs my therapeutic practice today. I have a particular interest in supporting people who are navigating identity questions, religious or spiritual transition, internalised shame, or the long echo that can come from living within rigid systems. I understand first-hand how complex, painful and ultimately transformative these processes can be.

My specialisms include working with LGBTQ+ individuals, people leaving or questioning high-demand religions, those in periods of significant life change, and anyone seeking a grounded, compassionate space to understand themselves more fully. I bring a gentle, curious presence to our work - always honouring your pace, your truth, and the wisdom of your own unfolding. I understand how deeply societal expectations and religious teachings can shape identity, sexuality, relationships, and self-worth.

Together, we can:

• Explore your evolving beliefs and values with compassion

• Address the shame, confusion, frustration, or grief that may surface

• Help you reclaim your autonomy and self-trust

• Support you to embody the belief that you are inherently good

• Honour the painful, liberating, and sometimes messy process of deconstruction, without pressure to reconstruct unless you choose to

This is a space for you to reconnect with your authentic self, free from external constructs.

Your First Session

Finding the right therapist is an important part of the therapeutic journey. I offer a free initial 20-minute phone call or online meeting to help you decide if we’re a good fit. Please feel free to ask any questions you have - there’s no such thing as a silly question.

How We Can Work Together

• I work with adult clients on a one-to-one basis.

• Therapy can be short-term (6–12 sessions) for a specific concern, or longer-term for deeper, more complex work.

• We’ll regularly check in to see how you’re finding the process and when it feels right for you to end therapy.

Sessions last 50 minutes and are usually weekly. I offer:

• Face-to-face sessions in my private room in Ford, near Arundel (off-street parking and toilet facilities available)

• Remote sessions via video call or telephone

Current fee: £55 per 50-minute session

Hopefully this gives you a sense of who I am and how I work. I invite you to get in touch if you'd like to explore whether I could be the right therapist for you. It is an honour to walk alongside the individuals who invite me into their journeys.

I look forward to hearing from you.

With warmth,

Lydia