About us
Are you someone who appears capable, thoughtful and “together” on the outside, while internally feeling anxious, overwhelmed, emotionally burdened, disconnected from yourself, or simply tired of holding everything together?
Many of the people who come to Quiet Time Therapy have spent years coping quietly.
They may be thoughtful, responsible and highly self-aware. They are often the person others rely upon, the one who keeps going, manages the difficult things and appears to function well. Yet underneath that competence there may be anxiety, self-criticism, shame, guilt, exhaustion, emotional numbness, overthinking or a persistent sense of never quite being able to let their guard down.
Sometimes you can understand exactly why you feel the way you do and still find that understanding alone has not changed how you feel.
At Quiet Time Therapy, we offer psychotherapy that goes beneath the surface of what is happening.
We are a team of therapists working integratively across a range of psychological approaches and areas of clinical experience. Across the practice, our work draws from cognitive behavioural therapies, trauma-informed approaches, schema therapy, compassion-focused therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and humanistic and existential traditions. Rather than expecting every person to fit one model of therapy, the work is shaped around the person in front of us: their experiences, relationships, culture, identity, emotional world and what they need from therapy.
Our aim is to offer a space where you do not have to perform being okay, explain yourself perfectly or arrive already knowing what is wrong.
Therapy can become somewhere to slow things down, become curious about what has shaped you, understand the patterns that continue to protect and constrain you, and begin creating change that feels meaningful enough to last.
Who We Work With
Our therapists work across a broad range of emotional and psychological difficulties, including:
- Anxiety, persistent worry, panic, overthinking and feeling unable to switch off
- Depression, low mood, emotional numbness and loss of motivation or enjoyment
- Trauma, including relational, developmental, complex and single-event trauma
- OCD, intrusive thoughts, compulsions and difficulties involving responsibility, morality, shame or uncertainty
- Burnout, chronic stress and the emotional consequences of continually pushing through
- Perfectionism, harsh self-criticism and feeling that your worth depends on what you achieve
- Guilt, over-responsibility and feeling accountable for other people's emotions or wellbeing
- Difficulties with boundaries, assertiveness, people-pleasing or expressing your needs
- Relationship difficulties, attachment patterns and experiences of feeling unseen, unsafe or misunderstood within relationships
Shame, low self-worth and longstanding beliefs about not being good enough - Identity, belonging and questions about who you are outside of other people's expectations
- Grief, loss and significant life transitions
Cultural, family and intergenerational experiences that continue to shape how you understand yourself - The emotional impact of health difficulties, diagnosis and major changes in your life
- Feeling highly insightful but still emotionally stuck, including after previous experiences of therapy
You do not need to know which category you fit into, and you do not need a diagnosis before coming to therapy.
Sometimes people reach us with a very clear difficulty they want help with. Others simply know that the way they have been coping is becoming exhausting, something in their relationships keeps repeating, or they no longer want to carry everything alone.
Both are valid places to begin.
Trauma-Informed Therapy That Respects Your Pace
Trauma does not always look like flashbacks or a single identifiable event.
It can also be found in the adaptations someone developed because of what they lived through: becoming exceptionally responsible, constantly anticipating other people's reactions, struggling to trust, finding rest uncomfortable, minimising your own needs, disconnecting from emotion, becoming highly self-critical, or learning that staying agreeable and useful was the safest way to belong.
At Quiet Time Therapy, trauma-informed practice means more than simply knowing that trauma exists.
It means paying attention to safety, pacing, choice, power, trust and what your emotional system is able to tolerate. Therapy should not require you to disclose experiences before you are ready or repeatedly relive painful events simply because they happened.
Where trauma forms part of your difficulties, the work may involve understanding how earlier experiences continue to influence your emotions, relationships, beliefs and responses in the present; reducing shame and self-blame; strengthening a sense of safety and agency; and, when appropriate, carefully processing experiences that continue to feel unresolved.
The aim is not to erase what happened. It is to help the past have less authority over how you are able to live now.
Identity, Guilt and the Roles We Learn to Carry
Some of the difficulties people bring to therapy are not immediately experienced as “symptoms.”
They show up as roles.
Being the responsible one.
The strong one.
The achiever.
The peacekeeper.
The person who never causes problems.
The person everybody turns to.
The person who learned very early to anticipate what other people needed.
These ways of being can become deeply embedded because, at some point, they served an important purpose. They may have helped you stay connected, feel safe, gain approval, manage unpredictability or create a sense of control.
But what once protected you can eventually become restrictive.
Rest can bring guilt. Boundaries can feel selfish. Disappointing somebody can feel dangerous. Making a mistake can feel like a judgement on your whole character. You may become so accustomed to asking what everybody else needs that identifying what you want feels unexpectedly difficult.
Therapy offers space to understand these patterns without shaming them.
The work is not about stripping away the parts of you that helped you survive. It is about creating enough safety and flexibility that they no longer have to organise your whole life.
A Thoughtful, Integrative Approach
There is no single therapy model that is right for every person who comes through our doors.
Across Quiet Time Therapy, our clinicians bring different therapeutic training, professional experience and areas of interest. Our work may therefore draw from cognitive behavioural, compassion-focused, schema, acceptance-based, trauma-informed, humanistic, existential and relational ways of understanding psychological distress.
For some people, therapy may involve understanding and changing specific cycles of thoughts, emotions and behaviours.
For others, the work may centre more deeply on attachment, relationships, identity, shame, grief, emotional processing or experiences from the past that continue to shape the present.
Often, it involves both.
What matters is that the therapeutic approach serves the person rather than asking the person to serve the approach.
What Therapy Might Help You Move Towards
Therapy is not about becoming endlessly calm, positive or unaffected by difficult experiences.
Depending on what brings you to us, the work might help you to:
- Understand yourself with greater depth and less judgement
- Feel less governed by anxiety, fear or constant anticipation
- Reduce overthinking, rumination and compulsive attempts to find certainty
- Soften shame, guilt and excessive responsibility
- Recognise and change patterns that repeatedly leave you depleted or disconnected
- Become more able to experience emotions without either becoming overwhelmed by them or shutting them down
- Feel safer expressing needs, limits and boundaries
- Develop greater self-trust
- Build relationships that feel more mutual and emotionally sustainable
Understand the impact of trauma without allowing it to define your whole identity - Make choices that are increasingly guided by your own values rather than fear, expectation or external approval
- Develop a stronger sense of who you are outside of the roles you have learned to perform
- Change does not need to be dramatic to be meaningful.
Sometimes it begins quietly: noticing what you feel before immediately overriding it, setting a boundary without writing an essay to justify it, allowing yourself to rest without earning it first, recognising an old pattern while it is happening, or responding to yourself differently in a moment when you would once have become your own harshest critic.
Those quieter changes matter too.
Beginning Therapy With Quiet Time Therapy
Your first conversation with Quiet Time Therapy is an opportunity for us to understand what has brought you here, what you would like help with and what you may need from therapy.
You do not need to prepare a perfect explanation of what is wrong.
We will think with you about the difficulties you are experiencing, what may be contributing to them, whether therapy with our practice is appropriate, and which therapist within the team may be the best fit for your needs, preferences and availability.
Once therapy begins, the relationship remains collaborative. Your therapist will continue thinking with you about the direction and pace of the work rather than assuming that therapy should follow a predetermined route.
Our therapists work within a shared clinical philosophy, while bringing their own professional training, therapeutic style and areas of expertise to the room.
This means you are not being fitted into a single therapist's way of working. You are entering a practice designed to think carefully about fit.
A Gentle Invitation
If you have spent a long time coping quietly, appearing okay or carrying more than the people around you realise, asking for support can feel significant.
You do not need to wait until things become unbearable.
And you do not need to know exactly what kind of therapy you need before contacting us.
If you are looking for psychotherapy that is thoughtful, clinically grounded, culturally attentive and interested not only in reducing symptoms but in understanding the person experiencing them, you are very welcome to get in touch.
We can begin by understanding what has brought you here, and from there consider together what kind of therapeutic support, and which therapist within Quiet Time Therapy, might be right for you.
Training, qualifications & experience
Quiet Time Therapy is a clinically led psychotherapy practice bringing together therapists with a range of professional backgrounds, therapeutic training and areas of specialist experience.
The practice was founded and is clinically directed by Ange Evans-Lutterodt, a BABCP Accredited Cognitive Behavioural Therapist with a professional background in forensic mental health nursing and experience supporting people living with complex trauma, severe emotional distress, personality difficulties and high-risk presentations. This foundation has shaped the wider clinical ethos of Quiet Time Therapy: thoughtful, psychologically informed care that can remain steady and compassionate even when the experiences being brought to therapy feel complex, overwhelming or difficult to make sense of.
Across our team, we draw on evidence-based and integrative approaches including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, trauma-informed practice, schema-informed therapy, compassion-focused approaches, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and humanistic, relational and existential ways of working. Our therapists bring different areas of training and experience, allowing us to think carefully about the kind of therapy, therapeutic relationship and clinician that may best suit each person who comes to us.
We have particular experience supporting difficulties where anxiety, trauma, shame, guilt, identity, relationships, responsibility and self-worth become deeply intertwined. Often, the very strategies that once helped someone cope, such as staying in control, taking care of everyone else, striving, suppressing emotion or remaining constantly alert, can eventually become sources of exhaustion, disconnection or distress.
Our work is therefore concerned with more than symptom reduction alone. We want to understand what sits underneath the difficulty: how patterns developed, what continues to maintain them, what they may once have protected, and what needs to change for life to feel different rather than simply more manageable.
Alongside her clinical work, Ange has completed additional training in trauma-informed CBT and Emotion-Focused Therapy and is undertaking doctoral-level training in Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy. This commitment to ongoing learning is reflected across Quiet Time Therapy, where our clinicians practise within their own professional competencies while contributing to a shared culture of reflective, evidence-informed and ethically grounded psychological care.
Whatever therapeutic approach is used, the aim remains the same: to provide a safe, collaborative space in which meaningful psychological change can happen at a pace that respects the person experiencing it.
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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 BABCP is the lead organisation for Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in the UK. Membership is open to anyone with an interest in the practice, theory or development of CBT. BABCP also provides accreditation for CBT therapists. BABCP accredited members adhere to the Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics in the Practice of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies, and are willing to be scrutinised in this adherence as required.
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