Who I Work With

Anxiety and trauma therapy for high-functioning adults

You do not have to be in crisis to know that something is not right.

If you are a high-functioning adult living with anxiety, this work is designed for you.

You may be working, caring, and functioning well on the outside, while internally your body feels tense, exhausted, or braced for something that never quite arrives. Anxiety may show up as constant mental activity, difficulty switching off, disrupted sleep, emotional overwhelm, or a sense of being “on edge” even when life appears stable.

For some people, anxiety is managed through over-functioning, people-pleasing, or control. For others, food may have become comfort, regulation, or escape. You may feel disconnected from your body, yourself, or your sense of direction.

This is a space for people who are done with surface-level solutions.

Therapy here is not about quick fixes, positive thinking, or learning how to cope better while staying the same. It is about understanding what your nervous system learned in order to survive, and helping it unlearn what no longer serves you.

Sessions are shaped around you, your history, your body, and your pace. The work adapts as you do.

Anxiety therapy for high-functioning adults

If your anxiety has not shifted through insight, self-help strategies, or coping techniques alone, this approach works at the root.

Rather than talking over symptoms, therapy focuses on the underlying nervous system patterns that keep anxiety in place. Real change happens when the body learns that it is safe to stand down.

This work supports people who experience:

• Persistent anxiety or worry
• Physical tension, fatigue, or hyper-alertness
• Difficulty resting or switching off
• Emotional overwhelm despite external competence
• Long-standing patterns that do not change through understanding alone

You do not need to push through or perform resilience here. You are not broken. Your system adapted, and it can adapt again.

Trauma-informed anxiety therapy

If your anxiety is shaped by trauma, this work addresses both together.

This is trauma-informed, nervous-system-focused therapy that recognises anxiety as a physiological and psychological response to threat, overwhelm, or unsafe experiences, rather than a standalone symptom.

Sessions prioritise stabilisation, regulation, and safety before deeper processing. The focus is on restoring the system’s capacity for calm, choice, and self-direction.

This approach is particularly suited to people who feel:

• Constantly on edge or hyper-vigilant
• Shut down, disconnected, or numb
• Highly capable yet internally unsafe
• Unable to relax even when nothing is “wrong”

You are never rushed, pushed, or exposed before your system is ready.

Working with sexual violence and abuse

If you have experienced sexual violence or abuse, in childhood, adulthood, or both, this is treated as a central and clinically significant part of the work.

Sexual trauma is not approached as an additional issue. Where present, it is understood as foundational to how anxiety, shame, self-blame, and safety are held in the body and nervous system.

You are never required to disclose details, relive events, or revisit memories for therapy to be effective. Healing here is not about retelling the past. It is about restoring agency, choice, and a felt sense of safety in your body and life.

This work is carefully paced, consent-led, and grounded in containment to avoid retraumatisation.