I work in an empathetic and trauma-informed way to help you discover a way forward and gain new perspectives on your life. Whether you’re feeling stuck, anxious, low mood or experiencing low self-worth or challenges with your relationships, we can work together to explore what’s most important to you. Together we can be curious towards your thoughts and feelings, which can lead to a better understanding of what you need most.
Prior to my private practise, I worked for Mind Norfolk & Waveney Mind at the Low Cost Counselling Service (LCCS), where I was one of the service’s in-house therapists for two years.
After undertaking a range of meditation retreats, and study in lucid dreaming approaches, my training in psychotherapy all began with an introduction to person-centred counselling in 2014. I then trained to become a lucid dreaming facilitator, and shortly after, I qualified as a mindfulness teacher. I’m also currently in the final stages of training to become a certified poetry therapist.
In addition to my psychotherapy training, I’ve completed a range of courses and CPD on dream work, anxiety, sand tray therapy, chronic illness, trauma and dissociation and stress management. I’ve been running workshops in poetry therapy, journaling and other writing for wellbeing approaches for the past four years as well as ones teaching people how to have lucid dreams as a way to support their inner landscape and creativity. You can find out more about these online and in-person workshops* via The Moon Lab.
I am a trainee member of United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP).
*Unfortunately, I cannot currently offer these workshops to psychotherapy clients I am actively working with, due to professional boundaries and the ethical framework I adhere to.
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How I can help…
I can help with a range of areas including anxiety, low mood, identity, low self-esteem, stress, relationship issues, childhood trauma, spirituality, neurodivergence, including support for parents of neurodiverse children.
Other areas include motherhood – supporting with change, identity in motherhood, parenting challenges and post-natal depression. I’m also able to support people experiencing insomnia and other sleep issues such as sleep paralysis, nightmares and anxiety dreams.
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Creative ways of working…
I’m also interested in dream work and sleep, journalling, art therapy and sandy tray therapy. These ways of working might not suit everyone, but they are choices and options we can explore if this feels like a fit for you.
The ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’ (below) Just some items we might use for sand tray therapy.
Poetry may also inform one or more of our sessions. Again, the inclusion of this is always led by what you feel drawn to when we meet.
Leah Larwood 