Individual Therapy at The Nurture Clinic
Therapy that starts with understanding why you’re stuck
You might know exactly what you should be doing, but find yourself repeating the same patterns. You might feel overwhelmed, burnt out or highly self-critical. Or perhaps something has changed — at work, in a relationship, following a diagnosis or simply in how you see yourself — and the ways you’ve always coped aren’t working quite as well anymore.
As a Clinical Psychologist, I’m interested in more than reducing symptoms. I want us to understand why you’re feeling the way you do, what might be keeping the difficulty going, and what needs to change.
Therapy with me is collaborative, curious and practical. We make sense of things together, rather than assuming there is something “wrong” with you that needs fixing.
What can we work on?
People come to therapy for all sorts of reasons. You don’t need to arrive with a diagnosis or even be completely sure what the problem is.
I commonly work with adults experiencing:
- Anxiety, worry and feeling constantly “on”
- Stress, overwhelm and burnout
- Low mood or feeling stuck
- ADHD and autistic experiences, including later-life diagnosis
- Emotional regulation difficulties
- Perfectionism, people-pleasing and self-criticism
- Difficulties with food, emotional eating and body image
- Work-related stress, career change or workplace conflict
- Relationship patterns and boundaries
- Grief, loss and significant life transitions
- Low self-esteem or feeling “not good enough”
- Adjusting to health conditions or changes in your body
- Feeling disconnected from yourself or unsure what you want next
Often these difficulties overlap, part of our work is understanding how the different pieces fit together.
What does therapy actually look like?
1. We start with an assessment
Your first few sessions give us space to properly understand what has brought you to therapy.
We’ll explore what’s happening now, but also the experiences, relationships, environments and coping strategies that may have shaped how you respond to things today.
This isn’t about endlessly going over your childhood or fitting you into a diagnostic box. It’s about developing a fuller picture of you.
2. We build a psychological formulation together
One of the things that makes Clinical Psychology different is the emphasis on formulation.
A formulation is essentially our shared understanding of:
Why this? Why now? And what might be keeping it going?
Rather than asking “What’s wrong with me?”, we become curious about questions like:
What have I learnt? What has my brain or nervous system adapted to? What triggers this pattern? What does it protect me from? And what might help me respond differently?
Your formulation becomes our map for therapy. We can revisit and change it as we understand more.
3. We choose an approach that fits you
I don’t believe one therapy model works for everybody.
I work integratively, drawing from approaches including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), Internal Family Systems-informed approaches (IFS) and nervous-system-informed psychological work.
We decide together what is likely to be most useful.
Some sessions may involve understanding patterns and experiences in greater depth. Others might be practical — experimenting with a new strategy, practising responding differently to difficult emotions, or making changes between sessions.
How many therapy sessions will I need?
There isn’t a fixed number that is right for everyone.
For a focused difficulty, we might agree an initial block of around 6–12 sessions. For longstanding patterns, neurodivergence, trauma, relationship difficulties or more complex experiences, longer-term work may be more appropriate.
Rather than signing you up indefinitely, we’ll agree an initial plan together and regularly review whether therapy is helping and what you need next.
Sessions are usually weekly or fortnightly, particularly at the beginning, although we can discuss what works best for you.
My aim isn’t for you to stay in therapy forever. It’s for you to develop enough understanding, flexibility and confidence that you increasingly become your own psychologist.
