Helping you rediscover your joy and meaning in life
Find your healing: loss; attachment issues; stress.
Achieve personal growth. Re-set your nervous system
Counselling – Coaching – Somatic Experiencing – EMDR – Breathwork
ADHD and neurodiversity specialist. Grief worker
Helping you rediscover your joy and meaning in life
Find your healing: loss; attachment issues; stress. Achieve personal growth. Re-set your nervous system for a better way of being.
Counselling – Coaching – Somatic Experiencing – EMDR – Breathwork.
ADHD and neurodiversity specialist. Grief worker
Hello and Welcome. I’m Allison, an integrative therapeutic counsellor and coach. I'am an ADHD specialist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Grief worker, EMDR practitioner, Voice Dialogue practitioner (a form of parts work that can be used to explore various inner selves or sub-personalities, promoting self-awareness and personal growth), and breathworker.
The thing my clients say about me most often is that I make them feel safe and secure knowing that they will not feel judged.
I welcome clients who are seeking support to explore difficult feelings and emotions, whether these are longstanding; relate to a particular life event that is causing upset and concern right now; or perhaps represent a persistent struggle or challenge which you are now ready to address and begin the healing process.
I have a particular interest in working with clients:
- who have experienced early life trauma, especially adults bereaved as children
- who experience attachment/relational difficulties
- who are neurodiverse
- who are struggling with grief and loss
You may bring worries over anxiety, depression, low mood or other difficult feelings.
My approach blends talking therapy, somatic approaches (including breathwork and mindfulness), EMDR and parts work; using core coaching principles where that feels helpful.
challenges you may be facing
Bereavement, grief and loss (including adults bereaved as children)
Seeking support with life's challenges as a neurodivergent person (diagnosed or not)
Difficulties in your personal relationships
Healing difficult feelings and emotions, including those stemming from childhood struggles
Stress, burnout, anxiety and exhaustion
Outwardly successful, but struggling on the inside
how I can help
I see every client as creative, resourceful and whole, whatever life experiences they may have had, whatever they have needed to survive, whatever loss is troubling them.
I have worked with over 300 neurodivergent clients and use a neuro-affirming approach that is suitable for all. Whether you identify as neurodivergent or not, whether you have a formal diagnosis or self-identify, I offer compassionate, individualised support to work through what troubles you. I bring my in-depth understanding of the challenges that being neurodiverse can bring - including struggling with time blindness, Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD), procrastination, lack of focus or difficulties with working memory.
Support through loss and grief: Support through one of life's hardest transitions, whether you are bereaved, anticipating loss of a loved one; experiencing loss of job or career, home; or moving through what outwardly is a positive change. All change involves both loss and opportunity. I will support you through coming to terms with what that change means in your life, and help you to redefine relationships, ways of being and how you wish to live your life in light of this new reality.
Rewiring attachment patterns, and shifting what is holding you back: I work with you through talk therapy, somatic work, EMDR and parts work to gain a deeper understanding of yourself and your patterns, exploring how these arose, and finding new ways to be, that feel more satisfying and meaningful, and give you the opportunity to create your relationships in a different way.
Nervous system re-set: I combine breathwork, embodiment coaching and somatic practices to help calm the fight/flight/freeze response that jangled nervous systems can default to. When we are stuck in the stress response, it’s harder to access our creativity, resourcefulness and resilience.
Personal growth: Once we have re-accessed our creativity, our potential can really start to shine through. I support my clients to grow their self-awareness, identifying old limiting patterns, ways of thinking and being that are holding them back. Through increased self-awareness comes choice. The choice to become the person they’ve always wanted to be.
my credentials
Integrative Counsellor (Humanistic, Person-Centred, Psychodynamic, Transpersonal modalities)
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner
Certified Grief Recovery Specialist
Professional Certified Coach (International Coaching Federation) with over 1500 hours coaching experience
ILM Certificate in Enhanced Performance Strategies for Neurodiversity in the Workplace
Certificate in EMDR in Therapy and Coaching
Voice Dialogue Facilitator
Certified Embodied Facilitator
Trained Transformational Breath Group Leader & Facilitator
Certified Mindfulness Teacher
Bachelors and Masters degrees in Psychology
memberships
I am registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), The National Association for Somatic Experiencing (SEA UK) and the International Coaching Federation (ICF). I abide by all their frameworks for ethical practice and have regular professional supervision to support my work.
