About me
You may have found yourself here because life feels overwhelming, you're repeating old patterns, or you're struggling with anxiety, relationships, grief or a sense that you've somehow lost yourself.
Hello, I’m Leah (she/her). I’m a UKCP-accredited, relational gestalt psychotherapist (BA, MA, CPT). I work from my private clinic in the grounds of Norwich Cathedral, where I offer therapy in a spacious, trauma-informed room that supports comfort, calm and reflection. I provide an affirming and inclusive environment where you are welcome exactly as you are. I’m also a Mum, writer and poet.
I work in an empathetic and holding way to help you discover a way forward and gain new perspectives on your life. Whether you're feeling stuck or at a cross-roads, or you may be with a sense that something isn’t quite right, even if you can’t yet put it into words. We can work together to explore what’s most important to you. Together we can be curious towards your thoughts and feelings, which can lead to a better understanding of what you need most.
I won't analyse or try to label you. Instead, we'll work together with curiosity, compassion and honesty, paying attention to what happens both in your stories and in your present experience. Working with process in this way, over time, often helps you understand yourself more deeply and authentically, loosen old patterns and discovering greater choice in how you live.
I identify as a woman and hold an open, fluid understanding of gender and identity in myself and others. My work is neuro-affirmative, trauma-informed, and welcoming of people across a range of sexualities, identities, relationship styles, faiths and cultural backgrounds.
As a psychotherapist, I can help with a range of areas, working with both short-term work as well as longer more in-depth work. Supporting with challenges including anxiety, low mood and depression, identity, low self-esteem, stress, relationship issues, childhood trauma, bereavements, sexual abuse, spirituality, neurodivergence, as well as offering support for parents of neurodivergent children.
Other areas include parenting – supporting with change, identity in motherhood/fatherhood/parenting challenges, and postnatal depression. I’m also able to support people experiencing insomnia and other sleep issues such as sleep paralysis, nightmares and anxiety dreams.
Creativity can sometimes reach places that ordinary conversation cannot. If it feels right for you, we might draw on dreams, journalling, poetry, images or sand tray work. There's never any pressure to work creatively but for some people these approaches can open up fresh ways of understanding themselves. For people who have experienced trauma, creative ways of working can sometimes provide a gentler and trauma-informed route into feelings and experiences that words alone cannot easily capture.
Training, qualifications & experience
In order of achievement...
- Masters in Creative Writing
- Introduction to Person-Centred Counselling Certificate
- Diploma in Hypnotherapy and Counselling Skills
- Qualified Facilitator in Lucid Dreaming and Mindfulness of Dream and Sleep (100+ hour training)
- Mindfulness Teacher Training MBLC Level 2 (Mindfulness Association)
- Certified Poetry Therapist (CPT) with the International Federation of Biblio Poetry Therapy
- UKCP Postgraduate diploma in Relational Gestalt Psychotherapy (Masters level) with distinction
In addition to my psychotherapy training, I’ve completed a range of courses and CPD on dream work, anxiety, sand tray therapy, chronic illness, trauma and dissociation, stress management and trauma-impacted sleep and nightmares. I’ve been running workshops in poetry therapy, journaling and other writing for wellbeing approaches for the past six years, as well as ones teaching people how to have lucid dreams as a way to support their inner landscape and creativity.
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
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Fees
£65.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I also offer low-cost counselling, £35-45 for those on low household income. These places are limited, but please do enquire for more.
I offer sessions from my clinic space in Holland Court near Norwich Cathedral. Zoom/online is also available. I have capacity to see clients.
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Further information
What is Gestalt Psychotherapy?
Gestalt therapy is a humanistic and embodied approach that includes all of you. It is non-pathologizing and I’ve personally found gestalt therapy to be a beautifully rich and inspiring way to uncover your inner world. It can help you increase your freedom, self-awareness, and can support you in making better choices. It can help you to be fully you.
I work relationally, which, in simple terms, means I’m interested in the relationship between us and the interplay in your other relationships, allowing you to experiment in a holding space that enables you to flourish in the world. In short, gestalt is a really enriching and non-labelling way of exploring your process holistically, leading to greater self-awareness and allowing you to become more choiceful.
Gestalt psychotherapy pays attention not only to what has happened in your life, but also to what is happening now. We notice thoughts, emotions, bodily sensations and relationships, helping you become more aware of patterns that may no longer serve you. As awareness grows, so too does your freedom to respond differently.
Contacting me...
Feel free to email to arrange a chat and I'll reply as soon as I can.
