Schema Therapists in Stoke-on-Trent, England, United Kingdom

I work in a warm, informal, and deeply human way. I see you as the expert on yourself, and my role is to help you make sense of what lies beneath the surface: your patterns, relationships, wounds, pressures, and life experiences. I bring together genuine warmth, honest connection, deep pattern recognition, and a structured approach, so that therapy feels both easy to step into and meaningful in what it uncovers. I believe the best therapy happens when you can be real, speak freely, and feel understood without having to perform or pretend.

I am an experienced integrative therapist, and I am trained in a range of modalities that will allow us to identify a tailor-made approach to help you overcome your unique challenges. I offer a warm, accepting presence, and work on the assumption that all successful therapy proceeds from a person-centred foundation based in empathy, positive regard and genuine concern for the welfare of my clients. Approaches offered include CBT, psychodynamic, and mindfulness-based therapy, and I am also a level 3-trained EMDR therapist. I also incorporate elements of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and schema therapy.

I am an optimistic and accepting therapist, enthusiastic about working with clients in collaborative ways, seeking to uncover and understand, and finding new ways of changing your life and living with fulfilling and rewarding relationships, families and friends. Over the years I have come to appreciate the therapeutic relationship as deeply healing, a safe space for clients to reflect and explore.

The reason people come to therapy are rarely simple. Sometimes it's anxiety that has gradually become exhausting, sometimes it's a relationship that no longer feels the way it once did. Sometimes it's a loss, a transition or patterns that seem to repeat despite your best efforts to change them. I offer individual couples and family therapy that is grounded in evidence and informed by a careful understanding of your history, current difficulties and therapeutic goals. My role is to help you understand what's happening, make sense of it and work towards change that feels meaningful and sustainable.

Stoke-on-Trent — the 'Potteries' — has experienced decades of economic hardship since the collapse of its ceramics and coal industries, and it consistently ranks among the most deprived cities in England, with therapists frequently addressing poverty-related depression, substance use, and the intergenerational effects of long-term community decline. The city has one of the lowest rates of therapy access relative to need of any comparable English city, making the work of community mental health practitioners especially important. Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides public mental health services alongside a limited private therapy sector. Staffordshire University maintains a counseling psychology program that contributes training to the local community, and telehealth has become an important access route for residents seeking a specialist match not available locally.

Gender ID

	75%	Female
	25%	Male

Session Type

	75%	In Person and Online
	25%	Online Only

Top Specialties

100%	Depression
100%	Trauma and PTSD
100%	Stress
100%	Self Esteem
100%	Anxiety or Fears
100%	Social Anxiety
75%	Relationship and Marriage Counseling

Ages Served

100%	Teen
100%	Adult
75%	Senior
75%	Young Adult

Client Focus

75%	LGBTQ+
75%	Women
75%	Men
50%	Persons with Disabilities
25%	Black / African American

Schema therapists in Stoke-on-Trent, England ENG, United Kingdom UK

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Schema Therapy therapists in Stoke-on-Trent, England, United Kingdom Statistics

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