Why Therapy?
If you've found your way here, something has likely brought you to a point of wanting something in your life to be different. Maybe there's a longing to change how you feel, how you live, or how you relate to yourself and others.
This is where we start.
Between stimulus and response, there is a space.
In that space, is our power to choose our response.
In our response, lies our growth and our freedom.
-Viktor Frankl
Where change begins...
So much of our suffering lives in the moments where that space seems to vanish, where we react before we've had a chance to choose. We move in to please, we distract, avoid, or fall into other familiar painful patterns.....and afterwards, we wonder why we couldn't do it differently.
Much of the work of therapy is about widening that space, slowing things down enough to notice what's happening inside you - the thoughts, the beliefs, the bodily sensations that accompany it. Then, we turn towards these feelings with curiosity, rather than away.
In doing so, we come to understand the tenacity our inner-system, and learn to work with it, uncovering and drawing out it's inherent valuable qualities.
And in return, it gives us space to do something different. We become less constrained by fear. More flexible. More free.
What Therapy Can Help With
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Anxiety and stress
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Perfectionism and burnout
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Exploring gender, sexuality, and identity
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Life transitions and change
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A sense of disconnection from yourself
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Self-understanding, and personal growth
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Navigating neurodiversity
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Trauma and childhood attachment injuries
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Relationships and interpersonal challenges
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People-pleasing and self-sacrificing
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Grief and loss
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Confidence and positive self-belief
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Self-understanding, and personal growth
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Self-care and overall wellness
The work I do isn't limited to this list - if what's bringing you here isn't named above, please reach out anyway. And if I'm not the right fit for what you need, I'll make every effort to help connect you with someone who is.
How Therapy Works
I understand that attending therapy is personal investment - financially, emotionally and also your time. Here are a few things to consider before you start.
How often?
For most clients, starting fortnightly or monthly works well. As with most meaningful change, progress tends to come via consistency and a little accountability. Clients who get the most from therapy are usually the ones who commit to it regularly.
For how long?
Therapy doesn't need to be forever. How long you stay depends on so many things - what you're working through, your goals, your internal and external resources, your capacity, and more.
If you'd like to give it a genuine go, I'd generally suggest booking in regularly for at least 6 sessions, and then taking stock together of how things are feeling and where to from there.
What makes Wildwood different...
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sessions are generous and unhurried, with room for depth-oriented work like parts work and somatic processing. Sessions are 60 minutes, compared to the standard 50.
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I bring lived experience as a late-identified AuDHD counsellor, so neurodivergence is understood from the inside.
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I work in an integrative and relational way - drawing on Internal Family Systems, attachment theory, somatic awareness, and narrative therapy, always tailored to you.
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No excessive waitlist.
- Fees are set thoughtfully to sit in line with the usual gap fee you'd pay for psychology services - meaning you can access support without needing referral or a Mental Health Care Plan.
