Lizzie London

As a therapist I adapt to the clients’ needs offering a confidential safe space for clients to explore the issues they face. I am experienced in helping people feeling a loss of control over their lives from grief, abuse, relationship breakdowns, drug and alcohol addictions, homelessness, hoarding issues, financial worries or various personality disorders. I believe in challenging clients to recognize opportunities for growth. Therapy gives clients an opportunity for examining their feelings, behaviour and the interpretation of their experiences. 

My aim is to help clients develop and grow by enabling them to redevelop relationships and empowering them to create their own changes. I offer a safe space to look at the effect of past experiences on present relationships and the client’s perceptions of their future. It all starts with understanding yourself. I work by incorporating counselling theories into three perspectives.

1) Working on emotional experiences, how those experiences were understood and the effect they had.

2) Working on how the interpretation of these past experiences affect the current experience of the client. By understanding or reassessing these emotional memories clients have the opportunity to free themselves form unconscious beliefs that keep them feeling stuck or depowered to ultimately leave those feelings behind.

3) After looking at how the past affects the now, I work with clients on creating a future self that accepts and values themselves and those around them.

I use this process to help clients with trauma recovery, guilt, shame, blame, anger and other negative emotions, Anxiety, Depression and various Personality Disorders. People experience abusive situations with parents, children, extended family and other complex relationship dynamics. I work with clients to understand abuse and gain the autonomy and power to create change. Working with both men and women in abusive relationships - I focus on helping clients to take ownership of their own behaviours, wants and needs and the impact of these on the abuse cycle.

I also offer Mother-Daughter coaching. This is a six session process that helps mothers and adult children understand how generational differences create conflict. This includes looking at the family structure together. The aim is to understand each other and create a healthy relationship. This also informs my work with men, helping men to understand their family structure and how they are affected by it. Please contact me for more details. 

I work with clients on trauma and recovery from complex PTSD. I’m currently working with both men and women in abusive relationships as well as clients experiencing abusive situations with parents, children, extended family and other complex relationship dynamics. Working with perpetrator and victims helping clients to take ownership of their own behaviour and its impact on the abuse cycle. I create space for clients affected by guilt, shame, blame, anger and other negative emotions to help them to explore where those feelings came from and ultimately leave those feelings behind.
I have worked with parents suffering anxiety and issues relating to parenting children. I help clients to feel more secure as a parent and understand how to connect with their child in their own way. Recently qualifying as a mother-daughter coach I helped clients to tackle the often painful relationship that continues into adult life. I look at the role of men in the family and the negative impact generational expectations have on every member of the family.

£50 per session. Some concessionary rates available

Therapists often come from a place of experience. My journey involves freeing myself from negative core beliefs, toxic relationship patterns and creating generational change. I trained as a therapist in my thirties after a decade of working in an office environment and parenting my children.

 Coming from the perspective of “parents are people”, I work with parents suffering from anxiety and other issues relating to parenting children. Helping parents feel secure and understand how to connect with their children in their own way. This often includes helping clients to tackle the painful family relationship that continued into their adult life.  As children we can be conditioned to reject parts of ourselves. I teach clients to use a full range of emotions to understand themselves and the world around them. 

As a Mother-Daughter coach, I focus on the relationship of women within families and how generational differences create conflict. This is the process of the mother and daughter looking at the family structure together to help them understand each other and create a healthy relationship. This also informs my work with men, helping men to understand their family structure and how they are affected by it.