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I am trained in the modality of Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy, and am also a qualified Coach, specialising in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). I bring over fifteen years of experience from working in the Education and Technology sectors, as well as establishing my own Private Practice here in Reading, Berkshire. I have a particular interest in working with men around faith, spirituality and sexuality, but this is a space that is open for all, and whatever you bring with you. Come, and be heard. I hold the following qualifications: -Level 7 Diploma in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy. -UKATA Transactional Analysis Award -NLP Practitioner -ABC Certificate in Counselling Skills I am a member of UKATA (United Kingdom Association for Transactional Analysis) and receive regular clinical supervision from a TSTA (Teaching & Supervising Transactional Analyst).

About me and my therapy practice: Empowering YOU to Overcome Trauma and Embrace Your Authentic Self. Do you struggle with trauma and anxiety? Do you wonder if you'll ever be free? Happy If you feel overwhelmed and stuck in your work or family dynamics, I can help you. I'll empower you to embrace your authentic self, move forward, and start thriving. Hello! I’m Lorraine, at The Art of Thriving, where I am dedicated to helping women like you; who feel trapped by trauma, anxiety, depression and the demands of relationships and the balance of a difficult work-life. My passion is to guide you toward a life where you feel empowered, authentic, and capable of expressing your needs without fear. Together, we will work to break free from patterns of people-pleasing and build a foundation for thriving in all areas of your life. I'm Trauma-Informed and provide Neuroaffirmative Practices. I believe there is hope and healing. I will start by understanding where you are now and your challenges. I'll help you to grow your awareness and develop gentle techniques to regulate your emotions. Helping women live a better life is my passion. It might mean learning to set boundaries, working through traumatic experiences, developing easier communication styles, or changing a pattern of behaviour that keeps you stuck. My goal is to help you feel better, so you can live the life you've always dreamed of. This will promote healing and growth, allowing you to flourish to your full potential. Approach: I embrace a Relational and integrative approach to therapy that centres on your unique needs and experiences. My therapeutic framework includes Transactional Analysis to help you understand and improve your relationship with yourself and others, mindfulness techniques for stress reduction, and neuroaffirmative practices to celebrate and support diverse neurological experiences. Together, we will cultivate a safe and compassionate environment where you can explore your vulnerabilities and discover your authentic self. Inclusivity is at the Heart of Therapy. My passion lies in truly understanding the intricacies of neurodiversity. Empowerment and self-advocacy are key focuses. To explore what it is like to navigate a world that does not always understand your unique experiences. I will give you the time and space to process the information, to enable you to feel heard and supported. Join me on this adventure—a journey of understanding, acceptance, and growth. We'll embrace your neurodiversity by supporting your unique strengths and challenges that make you wonderfully you. If this resonates with you, please reach out to schedule a session. What to Expect in Your First Session: Online Therapy at Your Convenience. Experience the benefits of therapy from the comfort and safety of your home with our online sessions. Your first session will help us determine whether we are a good fit for each other. We'll explore your goals for therapy and what you hope to achieve. Let’s chat about how long we might work together, whether you’re considering a short-term, medium-term, or long-term commitment! Feel free to ask questions; I’m here to address any concerns you might have. My session times are Tuesday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. I'll do my best to get back to you the same day you reach out. Before we begin, I'll need you to complete a working contract and a quick assessment. This will help me assist you more effectively! If you like what you read about me, please email or text me to book an initial session. We can use this opportunity to see if the way I work suits you. If my experience or our availability doesn't align, I have a wide network of other therapists, and I can refer you if you wish, so you don't have to start your search from scratch. Qualifications: Licensed Therapist with 5 years of experience. UKATA Diploma in Transactional Analysis level 6. Four years of Psychotherapy training at Transactional Analysis Cymru. Experienced in Trauma-Informed Care and Neuroaffirmative Practices. I offer Psychotherapy (in clinical practice). Certificate in Online Counselling. ASIST - Suicide Intervention Training Positive Intelligence - Coaching Certified in Couples Therapy Certified in Group Therapy

I cannot read from a safe distance, and I have stopped trying to. Something in me wants to give every person a nation, a name, a column they fit into, and I catch the same wanting when I sit with someone whose life will not be sorted that way. This is what I mean when I speak of intersectionality: not identities stacked neatly on top of one another, but the lived experience of being several things at once, none of them quite holding. Who am I, I must ask, when no single category holds the whole of me? And what right have I to hand others a category I could not bear to live inside myself? I notice this across the different rooms I work in. In my small private practice, it is one person in front of me and the slow labour of staying with who they are. In the international networks of academics and scholars I belong to, and in the UK-wide initiatives I take part in, it is the same question scaled up: how do we hold one another across borders, disciplines and languages without flattening anyone into a heading? And in my work on the Scottish Human Rights Defender Fellowship, the question turns sharpest of all, because there I am alongside people for whom being named the wrong thing, in the wrong place, has carried real danger. The category is never only academic. Sometimes it is the difference between safety and harm. I think a great deal about displacement, and in more than one register. There is the leaving and the arriving, and so many of those I work with carry the arriving somewhere that does not quite receive you. But there is also a psychic displacement: the sense of being exiled from a part of oneself. And a temporal one: living in a time that is no longer now, the past still happening inside. When I sit with someone who is grieving, or who has migrated, or who has survived, I am often sitting with all three at once. For human rights defenders, displacement is rarely a metaphor it is a country left behind, a home that cannot be returned to and yet the psychic and temporal exiles travel with them, too. And I am rarely outside any of it myself. Here I find myself drawn to Nelson Goodman's idea that we do not discover one ready-made world but actively make worlds through the versions we compose of them. This matters to me because the people I work with, displaced by conflict, violence and war, have often had their world unmade, the version they lived by torn up by forces they did not choose. The work, then, is not to return them to a lost world but to accompany them in the slow, courageous making of a new one: a remaking that future people, too, will inherit and continue. To support someone in worldmaking after catastrophe is perhaps the most hopeful thing I do. So much of my work lives on a threshold, that liminal place where trainees are no longer students and not yet practitioners, where clients are between an old life and one they cannot yet imagine, where a defender is no longer at home and not yet anywhere that feels like one. The threshold withholds the relief of arrival, and yet it is so often where the truest contact happens, because no one can hide behind a finished identity. Can I stay there long enough for something honest to form, rather than hurrying us both across into a false certainty? What I watch for most in myself is the slide from difference into indifference. I want to meet each person in their particularity. Still, it is so easy to retreat into the bureaucratic shrug, into the institution that classifies someone and then stops attending to them. This is the very machinery a human rights fellowship exists to resist the systems that name people and then look away. Difference can begin a relationship; indifference forecloses it. Am I meeting this person, or have I quietly slipped into the comfort of the category? And I cannot forget that displacement and liminality are not only tender things. They are also where power does its damage. The people pushed onto the threshold are rarely there by choice. So I hold this question close: how do I honour the strange creativity of that in-between place without romanticising a position that, for so many I work with, was imposed rather than chosen? I close more unsettled than I began, and more awake to the crossing points where I live and work between identities, between places, between times, on thresholds I did not always choose. Whether in the quiet of the consulting room, across a scattered network of scholars, or alongside those defending the rights of others at real cost to themselves, perhaps the gentler question is not how to escape into some settled belonging, but whether I might learn to stay with others there: in the difference, against the indifference, through the displacement. Might that accompaniment itself be a kind of home enough to hold us, for now?

I have been in clinical practice since 1999, working with individuals, couples, and groups. My work is integrative with a particular focus on the client's nervous system - my core psychotherapy training was in TA, but I am also a qualified practitioner in the following areas: SSP (Stephen Porges' Safe & Sound Protocol), Energy Psychotherapy, Wild Therapy and Embodied Relational Therapy. I have a special interest in, and personal and professional experience of, working with autism. I welcome clients on the autistic spectrum and provide an autism-affirmative practice and environment.

I am Jane a Transactional Analyst therapist working with individuals, couples and fellow professionals seeking clinical supervision. I work in private practice both on line and in person. I believe each of us has the right to live a more satisfying, fulfilling and creative life. That belief sits at the heart of everything I do

I am a certified Transactional Analyst, and TA forms the foundation of my work. While I will bring in valuable TA models, what matters most to me is the relationship we build together. Alongside this, I bring in body-based techniques, tools for calming the nervous system, and trauma-informed practices to support healing and growth. Creativity is an important part of how I work. I use metaphor, visualization, movement, and grounding exercises to help clients connect with themselves in new and supportive ways. I am guided by TA’s core values of equality and the belief that everyone has the capacity to reflect, grow, and create change in their lives. I have experience working with people facing a wide variety of challenges, and I feel especially passionate about supporting those who have felt marginalized or ‘othered.’I am a qualified psychotherapist and transactional analyst, based in rural West Wales. I offer sessions both in person, from my garden cabin, and online. My approach is grounded in the belief that relationships—both with others and with ourselves—shape how we experience the world. I’m especially interested in how our inner dialogue influences the way we see and move through life. In therapy, we can explore and adjust this perspective, creating space for a more authentic and fulfilling way of being. I value each person’s individuality and understand that everyone arrives with their own unique challenges and hopes. Together, we can explore what you’d like to change, understand what might be holding you back, and discover new possibilities for growth. I believe that our past often shapes our present, and through compassionate exploration, it’s possible to gain insight, integrate experiences, and begin to heal. At the heart of my work is a commitment to creating a therapeutic space built on acceptance, compassion, authenticity, and integrity. Before training as a psychotherapist, I worked as a birth doula—a role that still holds deep meaning for me. I have also supported people of all ages in alternative education settings. My background in drama, dance, and music continues to inspire my practice, bringing in creativity and body-based awareness as valuable tools in the therapeutic process.

As a therapist, I do not believe that you're broken or damaged; seeking therapy shows immense strength and courage. Even looking at this page is something to be celebrated. Our sessions together are journey where I’m your co-pilot—you’re in control, and we navigate together. You are not alone. As the founder of Transforming Talk and coming from a background in education and youth work I have a deep commitment to connecting to people as human beings. In so much of my work prior to training as a therapist I encountered people who where under the constant pressure of trying to "fit into their role". Trying to work out the expectations of others and adapting themselves to what they thought they needed to be put a massive strain on their overall wellbeing and happiness. With five years of experience working as a therapist I am passionate about helping people to rediscover who they are , leaving shame and doubt behind them. I work with men and and women of all ages and backgrounds. I have a special focus on working with people who are navigating a neuro-divergent diagnosis (such as Dyslexia, ADHD, Autism), and survivors of abuse. My approach is compassionate and tailored to your needs, ensuring a safe space for growth. The goal is for you to confidently fly solo through life’s highs and lows. Let's embark on this journey. Walk-and-talk, online, and face-to-face sessions available. Please do reach out, I'm looking forward to talking with you.

My name is Deborah, and I am an experienced practitioner offering psychotherapy and supervision with a relational focus. Based in Derbyshire, I also provide supervision and deliver professional training. As an experienced supervisor, I offer both individual and group supervision to trainees, qualified practitioners, and fellow supervisors. In addition, I am a skilled trainer and lead an RTE programme, the MSc in Transactional Analysis (TA) Psychotherapy and CTA group at the Sherwood Psychotherapy Institute in Nottingham.

I am an experienced Transactional Analysis practitioner with over 20 years’ experience in personal development, coaching, and therapeutic work. I combine deep personal and professional experience with the powerful tools and methods of Transactional Analysis to create a safe, supportive space where clients can reconnect with their inner resources. In this space, hidden or previously unaccepted parts of the self can gently come to light and become the foundation for meaningful change and personal transformation. My approach is relational, systemic, and ecological. I offer both indoor and outdoor therapy, using nature as a powerful co-facilitator in the healing process. I work collaboratively with clients, focusing on their individual goals while remaining attuned to their needs, pace, and unique process. Many clients find that working outdoors brings a fresh perspective and deeper connection to themselves. If this approach speaks to you, I’d love to hear from you.

Hello! My name is Nicky and I am experienced practitioner offering psychotherapy and supervision with a relational focus. My practice is based in Winchester and I offer individual therapy on a wide range of issues. I am also an experienced supervisor. Supervision is a particular interest of mine and I offer individual or group supervision to trainees, qualified practitioners and supervisors. This autumn I will be starting a new developmental supervision group for newly qualified supervisors. I am experienced trainer and currently deliver supervision training for several training institutes.

Hello, Im Karen, I offer an approach to your journey that is compassionate and rooted in the belief that meaningful change is possible when people feel seen, accepted, heard and empowered. As a Movement and trauma-informed Psychotherapist, I weave together TA and the body and work with curiosity, care and sensitivity to the body, heart, and mind relationship. I am interested in your uniqueness and in walking alongside you on your Psychotherapeutic journey, approaching my work with you with great respect, care, and openness.