About me
What has shaped you doesn’t have to define what comes next.
I’m a UK-trained, BACP-accredited Integrative Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor and founder of Woodward Wellbeing, offering psychotherapy and counselling in London and online internationally.
Before training as a therapist, I worked extensively in health and wellbeing as a coach, movement specialist and facilitator. This experience continues to inform my understanding of how our emotional lives can be expressed through the body, our relationships and the ways we cope.
I work with adults navigating change in identity, relationships, roles and emotional wellbeing, including those experiencing ADHD and neurodivergence, trauma, anxiety, burnout, relationship difficulties, addiction and recovery, grief and body image concerns. My clients are often high-functioning and self-aware, but ready to move beyond established coping patterns towards something more authentic, grounded and sustainable.
My Approach
My approach is relational, collaborative and integrative, drawing on humanistic, existential and contemporary psychodynamic thinking. My work is trauma-informed and attentive to the relationship between psychological and embodied experience.
Therapy offers a space to understand not only what is happening, but what may sit beneath it — the experiences, relationships and adaptations that have influenced how you respond to yourself and others.
We work at your pace, developing a deeper understanding of your experience and creating greater freedom and choice in how you live and relate.
Areas of Expertise
• Trauma, addiction and recovery
• ADHD and neurodivergence
• Burnout, chronic stress and emotional regulation
• Relationship and attachment difficulties •.Anxiety, burnout, chronic stress and emotional regulation
• Grief and loss
• Identity and life-stage change
• Body image and BDD-related difficulties
Clinical Focus
I am interested in the relationship between trauma, neurodivergence and identity, and how our experiences inform internal dialogue, sense of self and relationships with others.
My clinical experience and continued professional development have developed a strong focus on shame, internalised patterns, grief and loss, with agency and choice central to the work.
Training, qualifications & experience
I’m a UK-trained integrative psychotherapist and an Accredited Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). I’ve undertaken extensive professional development in trauma, addiction, neurodiversity (including ADHD), body image, and grief.
For full professional background and credentials, please visit woodwardwellbeing.com.
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
Fees
Additional information
I offer a free 15-minute telephone or online consultation, where we can talk through any questions you may have and explore how we might work together.
Please feel free to contact me via email : sarah@woodwardwellbeing.com to arrange an initial call. You're welcome to include a few times that work for you, and I’ll do my best to accommodate.
