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Counselling and Therapy in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Counselling for Anxiety
Are you struggling with difficult emotions, feeling overwhelmed, have unwanted memories causing fear and distress? Would you like to feel lighter and take back your life?
Anxiety is considered a normal process and experienced by everyone from time to time. Although unpleasant, some anxiety can be helpful. It can often warn and protect us when we are in danger. However, for some anxiety can be severe and continue for a long time, stopping them from doing the activities they want to do thus impacting their quality of life. Anxiety can be triggered by a variety of factors; you may know what is causing it, perhaps a current issue or events in the past. It could be there is no obvious trigger to your anxiety; it may be brought on by a variety of factors. Anxious thoughts can cause persistent worrying, which can make your heart race, cause sweating and trembling to name a few symptoms. Whatever the issue, I can help support you in a safe and welcoming environment and help you navigate your uncomfortable emotions. I will listen without judgement to understand your anxiety whilst scaffolding effective techniques, helping you to feel a sense of relief and safety.
Counselling for Depression
Depression is a common condition, and many people may experience it at least once in their life.
For some it may come and pass quickly without any professional help, whereas for others, depression may be more of a problem – it may last longer or come back multiple times – in these cases, it may require treatment.
Depression often occurs because of life stresses such as bereavement, relationships difficulties, life transitions or financial problems. Sometimes, there is no obvious reason for someone becoming depressed; often there is a combination of biological and socio-emotional factors, however for some people the problem becomes far worse, preventing an individual from leading a normal life. It can create feelings like hopelessness, fear, guilt, despair, and worthlessness. You may cry lots, or be unable to cry, you may have lost interest and enjoyment in things that may have bought you joy. If you feel you identify with this, the good thing is depression is treatable. I can provide a highly specialised and tailored therapy to help support you in understanding your depression. To work through the conscious and less-conscious issues that are maintaining your depression and work towards living a more positive and fulfilling life.
Race and Culture
Have you felt misunderstood, impacted by the complexity of culture? Have you felt stuck or confined by the hold it has had on you? Or perhaps you’ve felt neglected and judged for how you express yourself or your beliefs? You may have been subject to racial abuse which has affected you at different points in your life.
As a Counsellor and Psychotherapist, I will provide you a space where your world view and experiences are understood and accepted. As a BAME woman of bi-cultural identity, I understand the complexities of a duel identity and I will offer you both my professional and life experiences with compassion to understand your view of the world, beliefs, values, and culture and how these experiences shape you. I will offer a space to heal the negative experiences and deeper wounds that have potentially impacted you throughout life.
Trauma and Abuse Therapy
Traumatic events can happen at any age and can cause long-lasting harm. When our ability to respond to a perceived threat is overburdened, we become traumatised. Following such traumatic occurrences, many of us carry varied degrees of trauma in our bodies and psyches, and trauma can damage us in ways that may not manifest for years.
Everyone’s experience of trauma is different, and the cause of trauma can be so varied, from witnessing harm to someone, to being harmed yourself. You could be affected by trauma in a family or community, bullied, harassed, or discriminated. As an Integrative Therapist I combine a variety of approaches, including the latest neurobiological and psychological insights to effectively help resolve trauma.
Trauma can also result from any form of abuse; sexual, financial, physical, emotional, or psychological. Such abuse can leave survivors with psychological wounds that are harder to heal than bodily wounds. Your world can be hurled into crisis and chaos.
Whether you were an adult or a child when it happened, abuse can have big impacts on your health, relationships, and overall life. Some of your symptoms may include experiencing flashbacks and nightmares, panic, anger, and loneliness.
I will offer you a safe and confidential space to be able to feel understood, heard and importantly believed. Psychotherapy will allow you to voice your untold story and gradually allow you to reassemble your life and begin to put the pain of your abuse in the past.
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