You don’t need to arrive with the right words or a clear diagnosis. Whatever is weighing on you — named or not — there is space for it here. Below are some of the areas I most commonly support people with, though this list is not exhaustive.
Anxiety and worry
Anxiety can show up in many ways — racing thoughts, physical tension, a constant sense of dread, or a feeling that something bad is always about to happen. It can make ordinary situations feel overwhelming and leave you exhausted even when nothing obvious has gone wrong.
In counselling, we explore what’s underneath the anxiety — not just the symptoms, but the patterns, fears, and experiences that may be driving it. Understanding anxiety is often the first step to feeling less controlled by it.
Low mood and depression
Low mood can range from a persistent flatness — a greyness that colours everything — to a deeper depression that makes it hard to get through the day. You might feel disconnected from things you used to enjoy, struggle to find motivation, or feel like you’re going through the motions without really being present.
Counselling won’t force positivity on you. Instead, it offers a steady, honest space to explore what’s happening and to feel genuinely heard — which, for many people, is itself a meaningful part of the process.
Work burnout and stress
Burnout is more than being tired. It’s a state of deep exhaustion — emotional, mental, and sometimes physical — that builds up when demands consistently outpace your capacity to recover. You might feel numb, cynical, resentful, or simply unable to care any more about things that used to matter to you.
Evening sessions are particularly well-suited to work-related difficulties, because they fit around your professional life rather than adding to its pressures. Together we can explore what’s driving the burnout and what changes — internal or external — might help.
Relationship difficulties
Relationships — with partners, family members, friends, or colleagues — are often where our deepest struggles show up. Conflict, distance, communication breakdowns, feeling unseen or unsupported, navigating separation or loss — these can all take a significant toll.
Individual counselling can be a useful space to explore your own patterns in relationships: how you connect, what you need, where things tend to go wrong, and what healthier relating might look like for you.
Low self-esteem and self-worth
Low self-esteem often hides in plain sight — in the way you talk to yourself, in how quickly you dismiss your own needs, in the feeling that everyone else is more capable or more deserving. It can affect your work, your relationships, and your sense of what’s possible for you.
Person-centred counselling is particularly well-suited to this area because the approach itself is built on unconditional positive regard — a belief in your inherent worth, regardless of what you’ve done or haven’t done. Many people find that being met with consistent, non-judgemental acceptance begins to shift something.
Life transitions and change
Big changes — even positive ones — can be destabilising. Redundancy, bereavement, the end of a relationship, becoming a parent, retirement, moving to a new place, questions about identity or direction — transitions ask us to let go of one version of ourselves before we’ve found the next one.
Counselling can offer a place to process the loss involved in change, to sit with uncertainty without it feeling unbearable, and to begin making sense of what comes next.
Not sure if your situation fits?
Please reach out anyway. A free 20-minute call is a no-pressure way to talk about what’s going on and find out whether counselling — and working with me specifically — feels like a good fit. There’s no obligation to continue.