Testimonials

Here are some further reflections from the many people I’ve worked with over the years.

After a number of family bereavements, the most recent of which had been very traumatic, I was struggling. I had no previous experience of counselling and I wasn’t sure what to expect. However Shelley was very welcoming and explained to me how it would all work. This was particularly important as we connected through Zoom rather than face to face, as I live abroad.

I came to counselling struggling with anxiety, self-harm, and difficult family relationships.

I came to counselling with relationship and family issues. Shelley helped me feel relaxed and safe talking to her; I never felt judged, and she encouraged me to be more accepting of myself and my limitations.

Counselling began for me after a family relationship breakdown. I had tried to 'keep calm and carry on', but was struggling with loss and grief that were affecting my everyday life.

I had been suffering with a breakup in a fairly long term relationship. Probably the lowest point in my life. Struggled to eat, sleep and function throughout the day. Felt pretty empty and kind of meaningless with everything I was doing. Kind of felt like I was having a bit of a mid life crisis long before the middle of my life.

I came to counselling with angry outbursts, feelings of guilt and shame, depression, and anxiety.

The shock of my divorce brought me to counselling. Time wasn't helping me cope or understand, but counselling helped me accept that I don't need to understand, I need to learn to accept and move forward. Much of what I experienced is still sinking in, with discoveries about myself that have been both helpful and insightful.

Before I started counselling I was very anxious and depressed, with frequent panic attacks and self-harming; I felt confused, lost, and ashamed.

I felt unable to move forward with my life; there were things holding me back, a lot of regrets from behaviours in me I couldn't understand, and a sense that my inner child was broken in some way.

I was having difficulties in a relationship with one of my siblings and my partner, alongside some long-standing negative thinking I wanted to address.