About me
Are you feeling fed up with only feeling good enough about yourself when other people think well of you? Do you end up working too late at work and have friendships that feel unbalanced?
I specialise in working with people who need to rebalance their life and figure out who they are when they don’t put all their self-worth in how other people see them.
About me:
Hi, I’m Natalie, and I love helping people to find their way out of the exhausting people-pleasing anxiety cycle that’s holding them back.
I spent sooo much of my life feeling like I had to achieve, whether at school, work or being a great friend to feel like I had value in this world. I had therapy at various points in my life, read a lot of self-help books but it took a really great counsellor and travelling solo for 3 months when I was 26 for me to figure my sh*t out.
The work my counsellor had helped me to do led to understanding why I want to escape. That was the most important part, not the travelling. Travelling for me was letting go of the career path I felt like I had to go down, the expectations of what a good life was supposed to look like and learning to be more myself.
A quick overview…
What you might be going through:
- Telling everyone you feel “fine” when you feel like you’re going to fall apart.
- Feeling stressed on the way to work and overwhelmed by everything you need to do.
- Worrying what everyone thinks of you and feeling like you need everyone to like you and think you’re awesome.
- Evenings all blend into one, feeling like you’ve never caught or done the right things
- You’ve forgotten how to have fun and just be you.
How I help people:
- We’ll talk through what feels like the biggest thing that’s on your mind.
- Break down how it’s affecting you, has something like this happened before, what barriers are there to change.
- If relevant, I’ll explain what I know about why as humans, we might (or those around us) act the way we do.
- Attending therapy is going to help with momentum and change where it might have stalled with self-help books and podcasts. I’m there to help with accountability as well as support.
- I’m going to celebrate the moments when you start showing up in your life as you want to, not how you think you should, and stop taking on all the responsibility on your own.
What could a new chapter look like?
- Feeling more balanced and less overwhelmed by the world
- Knowing more about yourself
- Having fun, not just working 24/7
- Having the confidence to speak up about how you feel and feeling less guilty for doing so
- Feeling happier and more connected to your emotions, not feeling like they control you
- Experiencing relationships with healthy boundaries
- Feeling less like a burden when you’re the one who needs support
If this sounds like what you need, then book an introductory call with me to get started.
Training, qualifications & experience
Qualifications:
MSc Counselling, University of Northampton, 2018-2021
Mental Health First Aid England, University of Northampton with Mental Health First Aid England, 2017
Introduction to Counselling, Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of Warwick, 2016
BA Hons Sociology, Liverpool John Moores University, 2009-2012
Member organisations
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
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
Fees
£85.00 per session
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