Angela Percival

Whatever your specific situation, I offer a compassionate, intuitive, and practical space where you can share your challenges, make sense of your circumstances, and create meaningful change.

With over 30 years of therapeutic experience, I bring a versatile blend of training, knowledge, and life experience to our work. I work flexibly and creatively to find the tools that work best for you. While I offer long-term support, I specialise in short-term therapy, helping you achieve clarity and effect real change in a small number of sessions.

How Counselling Can Help You

Life often throws unexpected challenges our way, that can leave us feeling overwhelmed and impact our mood, motivation and resilience. It’s during these difficult times that counselling can provide additional support and help you to:

Gain Clarity: Understand yourself, your relationships, and how you manage everyday problems.
Process Loss & Transitions: Gently come to terms with disappointments, life changes, or difficult emotions.
Navigate Big Decisions: Build the internal resilience and perspective needed before making important life or external changes.
Develop Practical Tools: Learn tailored coping strategies to manage your circumstances differently and achieve better outcomes.

What to Expect in Our Sessions

One of the themes I’ve noticed frequently over the years is the very human tendency to be self-critical, even when we're going through a really tough time. Yet, it’s during those times when we are at our most vulnerable that we need the comfort that kindness and acknowledgement can bring.

Sadly, society rarely teaches us how to practice self-compassion. Because of this, you might feel like you aren’t allowed to experience your feelings, or that you have to put on a brave face and just keep pushing forward, or are unsure how to deal with the backlog of emotions and problems that seem to be building up in the background.

This is why genuine acceptance and compassion are at the core of our time together, as this creates the conditions for changes to unfold and for you to feel fully supported, accepted, and safe in our work together.

I provide a warm and engaging environment where you are deeply heard as you explore any difficulties you’re going through. When you’ve processed what’s making you feel the way you do and feel fully resourced, there may be some next steps and changes you would like to make that I can support you in making and maintaining.

Areas I Regularly Work With:

Anxiety, Stress, Low Mood, and Overwhelm
When you are under pressure, it is incredibly common to experience negative intrusive thoughts and excessive worry. I will help you understand how your mind processes anxiety and stress. Together, we will look at how your thoughts, mood, and habits impact you, allowing you to develop new coping strategies to break free from 'stuckness' and improve your daily outlook.

Why Self-Care and Boundaries Matter

Self-care is an important way to protect yourself from becoming depleted or ‘burnt-out’ and avoid impacting your health and well-being. It is easy to overlook our own needs, especially when we care for others, or during busy periods when we’re balancing other important areas of our life. This is why healthy boundaries are essential to mental health and well-being.

If you struggle with saying 'no' or find yourself weighed down by extra responsibilities to avoid upsetting others, we can explore these imbalances. I will help you learn healthy ways to prioritise your own needs and set personal boundaries to safeguard your time, energy, and resources.

Trauma and Somatic Release
Traumatic experiences can impact us long after their initial impact, limiting our ability to lead our lives in the way we wish to.

I can work with you to address and resolve past traumas and the associated memories, and release any trapped emotions safely and gently. I use a combination of advanced techniques and self-help tools based on the latest research in trauma and somatic (body-based) release. Together, we can 're-wire' unconscious patterns, so you can regain confidence and freedom of movement in your life.

Neurodivergence (ADHD, Autism, & RSD)
Understanding a brain that thinks, processes, and relates to the world differently is complex. Whether you are navigating this for yourself or supporting a loved one, I provide tailored support for the unique challenges of neurodiversity. Common themes I help clients navigate include:

Processing a recent diagnosis or starting medication.
Finding the balance between 'masking' to fit in and being your authentic self.
Managing children with special or additional needs.
Difficulties with concentration, prioritisation, organisation, and decision-making.
Navigating Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria (RSD), fears of criticism, and emotional regulation.
Resolving relationship and communication issues at home or work.

Work, Career, and EAP Expertise
Over the past 19 years, I have specialised in workplace counselling, working extensively with Employee Assistance Programmes (EAPs). Because workplace sessions are usually limited to a short number of sessions, I have become highly proficient in brief, dynamic, solution-focused therapy. My style is active and down-to-earth; sessions often include psycho-education, creative exercises, and practical strategies for you to try between sessions.

We can work together to tackle workplace stress, interpersonal conflicts, sickness absence, burnout, or organisational changes that are impacting your well-being.

If you are facing challenges at work that are causing stress, unhappiness, or overwhelm, I can help you navigate issues such as:

Achieving a healthier work-life balance and managing work overload.
Overcoming burnout, chronic stress, procrastination, and imposter syndrome.
Navigating interpersonal conflicts, bullying, harassment, or communication breakdown.
Adapting to frequent organisational changes, restructuring, or sickness absence.
Addressing job dissatisfaction, a loss of direction, or preparing for promotion and career progression.

What is the Next Step?

Because clients come to therapy with a wide range of unique goals, our work together will always be tailored to your specific needs. To read first-hand accounts of how others have benefited from our sessions, I highly recommend visiting my 'Further Information' section to view my client testimonials.

If you are ready to explore how we can work together, I invite you to contact me to arrange a free, no-obligation introductory consultation. This is a gentle, informal opportunity for us to discuss your needs and ensure we are a good fit for your therapeutic journey.

🌐 To learn more about my specialist work with high sensitivity, feel free to explore my website at Empowering Empaths: www.empoweringempaths.com

Support for Empaths and Highly Sensitive People (HSPs)

Alongside my general practice, I provide targeted, specialist support for individuals navigating the unique challenges of a highly sensitive and empathetic nature.

I help empaths gently heal from past trauma, embrace their innate intuitive gifts, and restore balance to a depleted nervous system. If you are unsure whether this describes you, explore the themes below or visit my website: www.empoweringempaths.com

What is an Empath?

An empath typically possesses deep sensitivity alongside heightened intuition and empathy, making them naturally gifted at sensing what others are feeling. The nervous system of an empath or Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) is wired for deep awareness. While this is a profound gift, it can also lead to sensory and emotional overload—leaving you feeling vulnerable to imbalances in your surroundings.

Am I an Empath?

If you resonate with any of the following experiences, you may be an empath or sensitive:

Over-Giving: You describe yourself as heart-centred but constantly find yourself over-functioning, putting others first, and struggling to say 'no'. Relationship Exhaustion: You are currently managing or trying to recover from the emotional aftermath of unhealthy, imbalanced, or toxic relationships.
Chronic Depletion: You frequently feel overwhelmed, exhausted, and energetically drained by crowds, conflict, or other people's moods.
Unresolved Trauma: You carry a history of significant past upsets or painful life events that your sensitive nervous system has struggled to process.

If these challenges resonate with you and you are ready to learn how to protect your energy, release guilt, and set healthy boundaries, I am here to help.

📞 Please feel free to get in touch to arrange a free, informal Discovery Call to discuss your needs further.

Initial Free Consultations are 25 mins

Individual sessions are £60 an hour

Testimonials & Client Experiences

Permission has been granted by my clients to share the following anonymous testimonials:

✨ Releasing Past Trauma & Moving Forward

“At a pivotal time in my life, Angela’s patience, compassion, empathy, and broad range of tools and skills have led me to trust her and become a participant in my own life. Over a period of time, with regular sessions, I have managed to let go of a significant past trauma, anger, and frustration and move forwards in other practical aspects of my life. Thank you!”

✨ Navigating Healing as a Therapist & Coach

“Angela has helped me to navigate healing, self-awareness, and working through trauma. She has been there as a therapist, coach, and mentor for me, using a range of therapy styles depending on what was most needed. She is approachable, intuitive, and creative, with a wealth of experience.”

✨ Practical Tools for Overwhelm & Stress

“Angela provides a professional and compassionate service. She has an empathetic approach which is caring and sensitive. She provides practical tips and techniques for dealing with stressful and emotional situations. She has a wealth of knowledge and brings her experience to help your situation. Angela builds strong relationships with her clients and provides a safe environment for you to address your issues or concerns. I’m extremely grateful for her support.”

✨ Managing Anxiety & Physical Symptoms

“I’m so relieved that I can now move on after months of fear and unknowing, and I’m determined to find a way to manage my physical symptoms and live life to the full. Thank you so much for your help, support, and kindness over this challenging time. Your wise words and the tools you gave me really helped me to get through it and equipped me to manage anxiety and remain positive, something I can take into the future.”

✨ Overcoming Dark Times & Heavy Emotions

“I was going through some extremely heavy emotions and mentally in a dark place, not knowing how to cope. With Angela's guidance, understanding, and support, I have been given the tools not only to conquer my existing demons, but to face any other challenges that I approach."

✨ Recovering from a Relationship Breakdown

"Counselling helped me enormously following the breakdown of my long-term relationship. Our sessions enabled me to think much more clearly about the situation, to identify and come to terms with the issues my partner and I had experienced, and eventually to move on to the next phase of my life."

✨ Resolving Workplace Stress & Traumatic Memories

“Angela was excellent in helping me deal with traumatic incidents from my past which were causing me stress and difficulties in my work and personal relationships. Angela helped me to change my thought processes, and I saw huge improvements in my work and personal life as a result. I now work with Angela a few times a year and can’t recommend her highly enough.”

✨ Feeling Reassured & Building Self-Esteem

"I am so glad that I found Angela when I did. I felt comfortable with her really quickly and was soon able to talk at ease. Angela is very reassuring and has a very friendly nature. She made me realise that I was able to cope with the things in my life that I had for a long time been struggling with. I feel so much better about myself and my life now and will be eternally grateful."

✨ Balancing Business, Family, & A Hectic Lifestyle

"I first contacted Angela to try to understand how I could deal with the feelings of anxiety I was experiencing in running what was becoming an increasingly hectic lifestyle, juggling running a business and family. Our initial consultation came as a relief... Angela not only put me at ease, but clear objectives were agreed and set. I found counselling sessions, coupled with mindfulness and relaxation, a great help! After a number of sessions, we reviewed the original targets and discovered, not only had they been met, but in most cases surpassed!"