Find help for —
Trauma and PTSD
When something you survived is still setting the terms.
Trauma therapy for adults, in Bristol and online. You will never be asked to describe more than you choose to.
First call
Free · 15 minutes
Sessions
50 minutes, weekly
Fee
£85
Format
In person or online
01 — What this can look like
Not a diagnosis
Most people recognise three or four of these.
Trauma does not always look like remembering. More often it looks like a nervous system that never fully stood down.
You are alert in rooms that are perfectly safe.
Certain sounds or smells take the day off you.
You feel far away from people you love.
Sleep is the part of the day you dread most.
You avoid things without ever deciding to.
You are told you seem fine and you know you are not.
There is no deadline on this.
03 — How we work with it
Three ways in, and you choose how far each one goes.
Nothing here requires you to relive anything. Steadying comes before processing, always.
Stabilisation First
When the present is not steady yet
Before anything else we build reliable ways to bring you back to the room. Some people stay here for a while, and that is a legitimate place to finish.
Trauma-Focused CBT
When memory is the thing that intrudes
We work with what happened at a pace you set, so that it stops ambushing you and becomes something you remember instead.
EMDR
When talking about it is not the way in
A structured approach that needs very little of the detail said out loud. It suits people who have told the story before and found it did not help.
04 — How I work
Four principles
You set the pace, and nothing happens before you are ready.
Nothing is decided in advance, and you can stop after any point. With trauma the pace matters more than the plan.
01
The free call
Fifteen minutes, and you say only as much as you want to. No detail is needed for me to tell you whether I can help.
Phone or video
02
Session one
We talk about how you are now rather than what happened. You will not be asked for the story.
50 minutes
03
Weeks two to six
We build steadiness first — sleep, grounding, getting through the week. Processing starts only if and when you want it to.
Usually weekly
04
Reviewing it
We check in often rather than only at the end, because here the pace is the work.
Openly, not by default
First call
Free · 15 minutes
Session
50 minutes
Fee
£85
05 — Questions about anxiety
Before the first call
Things people ask me about anxiety
If yours isn’t here, just ask me on the call.
06 — Related reading
From the journal
