Trauma and PTSD therapists in Manchester, England ENG, United Kingdom UK
Find experienced trauma and PTSD therapists in Manchester who provide testing, evidence-based treatment for trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, and related challenges such as anxiety, depression, and stress. Compare detailed therapist profiles and connect with a provider that’s right for you.
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PTSD/Trauma
Anjali P.
Registered Psychotherapist, MA in Person-Centred Experiential Counselling, Registered Member MBACP- 408062
Trauma can continue to affect us long after an event has passed. It may show up through anxiety, hypervigilance, emotional overwhelm, numbness, relationship difficulties, self-criticism, or feeling disconnected from yourself and others. My approach is trauma-sensitive and grounded in safety, pacing, and understanding trauma responses as adaptations rather than personal failings. Together, we can work towards greater emotional safety, self-understanding, and healing.
4 Years Experience
Online in Manchester, ENG England (Online Only)
PTSD/Trauma
Gordon Wax BA HONS MBACP
Counsellor/Therapist, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
It's thought that life has many endings and losses. I help people grieve and cope after trauma in a speed that is right for the client.
13 Years Experience
In-Person Near Manchester, ENG
Online in Manchester, ENG England
PTSD/Trauma
Georgina Lloyd
Counsellor/Therapist, MSW, LCSW
I offer specialised, evidence-based support for individuals experiencing trauma and post-traumatic stress. I work with both single-incident and complex trauma, using approaches such as Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) alongside other trauma-informed methods to help clients process distressing experiences, reduce symptoms, and restore a sense of safety and control.
6 Years Experience
In-Person Near Manchester, ENG
Online in Manchester, ENG England
PTSD/Trauma
Sara Aicart-Pendlebury
Art Therapist, Human Givens Practitioner (HG.Dip.P), Member of Human Givens Institute, IFS therapist Levels 1&2, Narm Practitioner
PHOBIAS, PANIC ATTACKS AND POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS
The brain has an emotional alarm system designed to keep us safe. When people suffer from panic attacks, phobias or post-traumatic stress, it is because the system has gone into overdrive.
What happens is this. There is a small, structure in the brain, known as the amygdala (Greek for almond, which is its shape), that has access to our emotional memories and learned responses. It evolved in the distant past and its job is to match new circumstances to what is already in the store and alert us to anything that previously represented a risk and might do so again. In the distant past, this might have been a movement or flash of colour that could have signified an approaching predator. The amygdala would then have triggered changes to help the body get ready to fight or flee the danger – pounding heart, racing pulse, quick, shallow breathing, etc.
Now imagine this. A young woman, who has had a highly stressful day, is waiting in a long supermarket queue, worrying whether she’ll be out of the shop in time to catch the bus to school to collect her little girl. It is one pressure too many. The amygdala responds as if she is under threat and she starts to feel her heart pounding strangely and her breathing quickens. She becomes terrified that she is having a heart attack and that makes the symptoms escalate – her palms sweat; her chest feels as if it is bursting and she struggles to breathe. Soon she feels overwhelmed and may collapse or run out of the shop. The amygdala, fearful that this could happen again, files away the fact that there were bright lights and lots of people queuing when the ‘threat’ occurred. Then, when the woman is queuing in the post office the next day, the bright lights and queue may be sufficient for the over-vigilant amygdala to trigger another panic attack to deal with the new ‘threat’.
Phobias start the same way – the amygdala makes associations with what was going on when a person first felt threatened, not all of which may be relevant. So, while it is understandable that someone who is attacked by a vicious dog may well develop a fear of dogs generally, it could equally be the case that someone develops a fear of broken glass because, on a previous occasion, when they had had a panic attack, there was broken glass lying near to where they collapsed. Agoraphobia develops when someone is too frightened of panic attacks even to leave the house.
In the case of post-traumatic stress, someone who was in the back seat of a car when a collision occurred may find it frightening to travel in the back seat again but there may be other, unconscious, connections with the accident too, such as the smell of petrol. So the person may experience seemingly inexplicable panic when filling up their own car with petrol.
Fortunately, human givens practitioners are taught a simple and effective way to deal with all these circumstances. If a traumatic memory is causing panic attacks, phobias or post-traumatic stress, they can use a powerful, painless visualisation procedure, known as the rewind technique, to take the emotion out of the memory and enable the memory of the event to be stored away as history, instead of as one that continues to intrude on the present. The memory remains, and always will remain, a deeply unpleasant one but no longer is it emotionally arousing. This method can work swiftly and reliably even in the most extreme of cases.
17 Years Experience
Online in Manchester, ENG England
PTSD/Trauma
Empowered Wellbeing, Decolonizing Intersectional and Integrative Complex Trauma & Dissociation Recovery Support
Life Coach, view my credentials online at: www.recoveringfromwithin.com/credentialslongform
We bring 14+ years of experience with complex trauma, dissociation care and recovery, memory reconsolidation and other neurodevelopmental care, attachmemt care and support... We specialize in CSAS - Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse, Colonial and/or Narcissistic/Trauma Recovery. Our approach is systems and neurodevelopmental and at times ethnotraditional/ecorelational based. We bring compassion and empathy to trauma recovery support. There is a deep understanding of the internal and external affects of trauma recovery. Care providers are sometimes also survivors who have been through the recovery and have deep compassion for the process. We look at and work with intersectional issues of oppression. We also recognize many instances of socially derived trauma are intergenerational, lateralized and or oppressive and ongoing, clients are often addressing childhood, as well as, adult trauma from a non-self-shaming compassion based approach such as, Intersectional Care, Parts Work including TIST -- Trauma Informed Stabilization Theory, IFS -- Internal Family Systems; Somatic Work and distance CranioSacral; DBR, Polyvagal and Attachment Theory based approaches... non dominant handwriting, addiction care, memory reconsolidation and existential/coherence level care. We also integrate understanding of Transformative and Social Justice to bring awareness to internalized oppression that can keep survivors looped into dangerous experiences. We have a decolonizing orientation to care! This work is a special calling, during and post trauma recovery, folks may even feel more affirmed and move towards creative and fulfilling Self actualization in their process. We welcome POC and GM folks with intersecting care needs. Please feel free to email me if you have any questions.
15 Years Experience
Online in Manchester, ENG England (Online Only)
Manchester is one of England's most dynamic cities — a hub for media, tech, music, and higher education — and its therapy community reflects the breadth of this cultural and professional diversity. The city's large student population across the University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan, and the University of Salford creates sustained demand for therapists addressing academic stress, young adult identity, and the transition pressures of emerging adulthood. Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust provides public mental health services, while a private therapy community serves Didsbury, Chorlton, and the Northern Quarter. Manchester's large South Asian, Black Caribbean, and Eastern European communities drive demand for multilingual and culturally affirming therapists across the region.
Trauma and PTSD therapists in Manchester, England, United Kingdom Statistics
Trauma and PTSD therapists in Manchester, England, United Kingdom average 15 years of experience and charge around ¤126 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Integrative Therapy (55%), Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) (53%), and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (49%).
Average years in practice
15 Years Experience
Average cost per session
¤126
Accept insurance
41%
Offer sliding scale
51%
Gender ID
| 71% |
Female |
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| 27% |
Male |
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| 1% |
Non-Binary |
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| 1% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 66% |
In Person and Online |
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| 34% |
Online Only |
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Top Treatment Approaches
| 55% | Integrative Therapy |
| 53% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
| 49% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 39% | Somatic Therapy |
| 35% | Behavioral Therapy |
| 35% | Existential / Humanistic Therapy |
| 34% | Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) |
Ages Served
| 100% | Adult |
| 62% | Young Adult |
| 57% | Senior |
| 55% | Teen |
| 24% | Children |
Client Focus
| 65% | Women |
| 49% | Men |
| 47% | LGBTQ+ |
| 39% | Persons with Disabilities |
| 34% | Christian |