Aimee Bishop
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About me
You have your life together in most ways: career, friendships… You’re probably the person other people come to when things get hard, but when it comes to relationships something else entirely happens. You become someone you do not quite recognise: smaller, more anxious, last on the list, and at some point you look up and wonder where you went.
If that is a pattern that has followed you across more than one relationship, that is not a coincidence. And insight alone, however much of it you’ve accumulated, will not shift it.
What I do
I work with women who lose themselves in dating and relationships. Not once in one difficult relationship, but as a repeating pattern that shows up across different partners and different circumstances.
Together we work with what is underneath: the early relational blueprints that shaped how you connect, the defences that once kept you safe (but now keep you stuck) and the unconscious processes that drive relationship self-sabotage even when you logically know better.
Who I work with
Women who keep losing themselves in relationships despite knowing better. Women drawn to emotionally unavailable partners, or who find themselves over-functioning, over-adapting, disappearing. Women sitting with relationship anxiety, sexual shame, questions about their desire or themes that appear in intimacy. Women asking "why do I keep repeating the same relationship patterns?" or "why do I keep choosing the wrong person?" and are ready to go somewhere deeper than a surface answer.
I work with women individually. This is not couples therapy. It is relational work that explores why you lose yourself in relationships and why those patterns keep repeating, so they can actually change.
My approach
I am interested in what's happening beneath what's happening. The patterns you repeat, the roles you fall into and the ways your past shows up in your present relationships, including in the room with me.
I work actively and directly. I will name what I notice. I will not simply validate, and I will not let you stay stuck in shame either, because I strongly believe that self-compassion is what moves things forward, not self-criticism (often named as "accountability").
My style is warm, direct and down-to-earth. I am a feminist who takes women's anger, ambivalence, sexuality and complexity seriously. If previous therapy felt too surface-level, too focused on managing symptoms rather than understanding them, or too quick to hand you tools before exploring what is underneath them, this might be what you have been looking for.
Working together
Weekly 50-minute sessions: £62 (online across the UK or in-person near Woking, Surrey).
Current availability: Monday afternoons and Tuesday mornings.
A free 20-minute introductory call is available with no pressure, just a chance to talk about what's going on for you and see whether we are a good fit.
Training, qualifications & experience
Experience
I have worked with women in women's centres and women's prisons, supporting women from every background and in every kind of relational difficulty. That experience has shaped how I practise: with deep compassion, genuine curiosity, and a refusal to reduce women's experiences to symptoms to be managed.
Qualification & training
I hold a Foundation Degree (FdSc) in Counselling from Middlesex University, I'm registered with the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS) and I'm committed to ongoing learning, with recent additional training in:
- Polyamory and open relationships
- Partnership & PMDD
- Body-informed approaches to emotional overwhelm and disconnection
- Group therapy
- Creative counselling
Member organisations
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Accredited register membership
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Fees
£62.00 per session
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Further information
This work tends to suit women who are reflective and curious, and who notice that insight alone hasn’t shifted the relational patterns they keep falling into. Many clients come having talked things through before, and are now wanting to understand what keeps pulling them back into the same dynamics.
In session we pay attention to patterns as they show up between us, not just in the stories you bring, and work towards greater clarity, self-trust, and agency in your relationships.
If you’re unsure whether this is the right fit, you’re welcome to get in touch. An introductory call offers space to talk things through and see whether working together feels right.
