About me
Hi, I’m Sade. I specialise in working with adults whose difficulties are longstanding, interconnected, or rooted in early life experiences.
- Complex Trauma and PTSD: Adults affected by damaging experiences that continue to shape their everyday life. This may include anxiety, dissociation, voice hearing experiences, feeling unsafe, mistrust, emotional overwhelm or difficulties that feel hard to explain to others.
- Relational Trauma, Shame and self-criticism: Adults that find themselves repeating painful relationship patterns, struggling with boundaries, “people pleasing”, perfectionism, shame, loneliness, self-criticism or emotional overwhelm.
- Neurodivergent, masking and burnout: Adults with late identified/ suspected autism or ADHD, experiencing burnout, depression, overwhelm and exhaustion from years of adapting to meet
expectations.
My work is grounded in psychological theory and evidence, but therapy is still just a conversation between two people. I think the best work happens when there's enough trust to be honest about difficult things, enough curiosity to understand them, and enough ease to make the difficult work feel possible, without you having to worry about getting therapy right. These are the moments when something shifts between us: "Well... that explains a lot." Those moments aren't the end of the work, but they're often where something new becomes possible.
Training, qualifications & experience
I specialise in trauma, anxiety, shame and relationship patterns. I qualified in 2016 and have worked across specialist mental health, forensic and trauma-informed services, including personality disorder and higher-risk settings as a senior clinician.
Specific training includes:
- Doctorate in Forensic Psychology
- Accredited Cognitive Analytic Therapist
- EMDR Trained Therapist
- RO-DBT (Level 2 Practitioner Pathway Training)
- Prolonged Exposure for PTSD
- Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD
- Compassion Focused Therapy (specialist training across multiple clinical applications)
- Schema Therapy (ISST-approved, 40 hours)
- Personality, Autism and ADHD gold-standard assessment tools
I continue to develop my practice through ongoing training, supervision and professional accreditation.
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 Association for Cognitive Analytic Therapy (ACAT) is a registered charity. They welcome members of the public, health professionals, ACAT accredited professionals, and anyone interested in finding out more about CAT. They list CAT practitioners.
The HCPC are an independent, UK-wide health regulator. They set standards of professional training, performance and conduct for 16 professions.
They keep a register of health professionals who meet their standards, and they take action if registered health professionals fall below those standards. They were created by a piece of legislation called the Health Professions Order 2001.
Registration means that a health professional meets national standards for their professional training, performance and conduct.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Fees
£140.00 per session
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
Sessions are £140 and payable in advance to secure your session. I ask for at least 48 hours' notice for cancellations or rescheduling; sessions cancelled with less notice may be charged in full.
Further information
I often work with people whose experiences do not fit neatly into one label. You may feel anxious, overwhelmed, low, disconnected, confused or as through you are the problem. Therapy can offer a space for us to make sense of these experiences together, notice the patterns that may be keeping you stuck and begin to find new ways of relating to yourself and others with more peace and compassion.
