Are you tired of feeling invisible, as if your thoughts and emotions go unnoticed by others? Do you find yourself constantly being taken advantage of due to your kind nature or inability to say 'no' or set healthy boundaries? These issues can be due to people pleasing behaviours that were developed during childhood as an adaptive survival strategy, but now they have become maladaptive and may present as low self-esteem, low self-worth, anxiety, depression and even unhealthy relational dynamics with friends, family or work colleagues, leading to abuse or coercion.

Do you feel that stress, anxiety, depression, or trauma are preventing you from living your life in the way you’d like or deserve? Or if past experiences continue to impact your present, affecting your ability to live a fulfilling life, know that you're not alone.

Hi, I’m Sharon and I provide in-person, and online counselling and psychotherapy services, catering to individual adults seeking support on a long-term basis. With an integrative counselling approach rooted mostly in humanistic principles, I provide a holistic and empathetic therapeutic experience. As a trauma-informed practitioner with lived experience and with specialist training in the area of trauma, I am keen to support individuals on their recovery and healing. I hold foundation certificates in both somatic trauma and polyvagal informed techniques, allowing me to address the mind-body connection, as painful emotions can manifest somatically. I also use Parts Work models of psychotherapy to inform my practice and aid healing through a compassionate depathologizing lens.

I have a keen interest in how people hold onto and express trauma, and how this can manifest in our thoughts, feelings and behaviours causing anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, disordered eating and addictions; having an affect on our relationship with ourselves and others. Much of my work looks at attachment patterns, relational and developmental trauma, and complex and delayed loss and grief.