Name: Elle Heasman
Telephone: +447492332877
Price range: £70.00 - £85.00

About me

Hi,

I am a professional integrative psychotherapist, trauma-informed counsellor, couples therapist, and clinical supervisor who works with adult clients face-to-face and remotely over the telephone.

I can also facilitate office visits (City of London & Canary Wharf) by arrangement, but the session fee does not include additional charges for travel and my time.

Sessions:

In sessions, you will engage in talk therapy, allowing you to explore how you feel by working on and building a greater awareness of who you are today so you have more choices.

How long are sessions and frequency:

Sessions are 50-minutes long.

I work with adults weekly and fortnightly in therapy.

Fees:

Individual Sessions:

I offer face-to-face sessions during the day at a lower fee for all individuals, regardless of income - £70

Fees from 5. pm - £85

Where will our sessions be?

I work face-to-face with adult clients in Rotherhithe/Bermondsey and remotely via telephone across the UK.

I am also based at the Print Village in the heart of Peckham in SE15.

Individual Counselling:

Here are things I can help you with:

If you are experiencing symptoms of crippling anxiety, OCD, GAD, social anxiety, health anxiety, panic, depression, PTSD, or complex trauma and would like to talk to a trained professional therapist.
You have diagnosed or undiagnosed ADHD and want to work on symptoms.
You are noticing, or others are commenting on your uncontrollable rage and anger at home or work, but you don't know where to start to stop this behaviour, or you have a history of self-harm...
You are triggered emotionally by many things but don't quite know why and want to work on gaining awareness.
You want to establish boundaries for the first time and take responsibility and accountability for life.
You catastrophise, a primitive defence mechanism established in childhood, and would like to work with some de-catastrophizing tools to improve the quality of well-being.
Intrusive thoughts, flashbacks, and suicide ideation are becoming a regular occurrence and causing you concern. Mindful, you have developed this pattern of overthinking, and you may wish to work on this cycle of behaviour.
Feelings of hopelessness, sadness, shame, loneliness, low confidence, and low self-worth are plague daily thoughts. Perhaps you are experiencing excruciating perfectionism, avoidance, low- motivation, anxiety, and stress, too.
Impacted by bereavement, loss, or grief of a family member, fur baby, friend, or colleague. Or maybe you are supporting a loved one who has a terminal diagnosis and needs a safe space to unpack and share emotions.
Loss of quality of life is physical because of disability, age, or personal circumstances of being made redundant, divorce, or separation.
Or maybe you are constantly hypervigilant because of abuse from your childhood. You may, as a child, have lived in a constant state of fear that pretty much exhausted you mentally. So much so that you could not concentrate on your schoolwork and fell behind. Your coping mechanism may have been to switch off dissociation and become numb to survive...
Experiencing fear, which is entrenched in vulnerability. This conscious or unconscious trigger can lead to avoidance and, ultimately, acute procrastination, which can be debilitating. On a bad day, it makes you want to hide away from others, but you cannot hide away from yourself, can you, and you are fed up with hiding.
Using addiction to substances or dangerous behaviours as a coping mechanism to get through each day, thus, wanting to replace these with healthier behaviours.
You could have a historic pattern of broken, toxic, or unhealthy relationships you would like to address in sessions because you believe the root cause stems from your childhood or past poisonous relationships.
As an adult, you might be experiencing difficulties finding a secure base you can call home because you've forgotten or do not even know what this may feel like.
You may also want to come to sessions to examine interpersonal relationships, specifically trust, boundaries, attachment, co-dependency, and communication.
You might have also noticed unhealthy patterns of relating in romantic relationships and friendships. Yet, you cannot quite understand why and would like to explore in therapy to change this.
Or have you just left a toxic, abusive relationship and are struggling to come to terms with the gaslighting you experienced, as it has profoundly impacted your mental health?
You find yourself questioning what you think daily because you were put down and devalued so much; you lost a piece of yourself in that toxic relationship or didn't recognize yourself anymore.
Your self-worth, confidence and self-esteem is at rock bottom, and you are trying to rebuild your life with friends and family, as your family, ex-partner or current partner isolated you from others to gain more control over you but perhaps you are struggling to adjust.
There was no secure base or haven as a child. Nor were they happy families as depicted in the Disney movies and happy ever afters.
You might have experienced the loss of a parent or significant caregiver as a child, and the profound loss is still impacting your daily life as an adult.
You may have a pattern of self-sabotage you recognize; this could be leaving relationships abruptly, ghosting others, not taking responsibility or accountability for your actions, and blaming others. Or building walls up around you so high that no person, including yourself, stands a chance of getting close to you?

What happens in our sessions?

I take a holistic approach, looking at an individual's mind, body, and spirit. I focus on improving the well-being of the 'whole person', not just one part. I use many stabilisation techniques and tools you can implement into your life.

Strengthen all areas in your life that need attention and, ultimately, work on being the best version of yourself. We will establish a unique baseline for you to become fully grounded and present for your future self.

Area of specialism:

My clinical specialism is childhood trauma, sexual abuse, neglect, emotional and physical abuse, and the impact intergenerational trauma has on an individual.

Since 2020, I have worked one afternoon a week at OneinFour in 2-year long-term therapy with adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, intergenerational sexual abuse & trauma, emotional abuse, neglect, kidnapping, torture, and violence in North and South-East London.

Trauma can be complex and is specific to each survivor. Still, it can also manifest into symptoms of depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation thoughts, self-harm, addictions, relationship issues, trust, low self-worth, low self-esteem, confidence, etc.

Please refer to my website for further details.

What is the best way to contact me?

You can reach me by telephone or text. You can also visit my website or social media to get a better sense of who I am.

Elle

MNCS (Accred)

Training, qualifications & experience

Advanced Diploma in Pluralistic Counselling Practice Classroom-Based Training In Guildford - September 2024-June 2025)
Advanced Diploma In Counselling Supervision: Level 7 (Distinction) Classroom-Based Training In Somerset - ADV. Dip S CS
Professional Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling Practice: Classroom-Based Training In Central London - PROF. Dip PSY C