Psychotherapy

What is psychotherapy?

Psychotherapy is a space where you can come to discuss any difficulties you may be having in your life. It is a safe confidential space that is dedicated to you only. Every individual will use the space differently and it is an opportunity to get to know yourself better and become more connected to yourself.

What can psychotherapy help with?

- Learning to build trusting and caring relationships

- Break down experiences of oppression and work through identity issues

- Working through past traumas and gaining greater clarity of mind

- Gaining freedom from your inner critic and prioritising self care

- Growing self-awareness to assist you with emotional regulation

- Beginning to make behavioural changes in areas of your life you would like to improve on

- Working through fear of conflict

- Building confidence, self-love and self-empowerment

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My Practice

I believe psychotherapy is a process of discovering the layers of your heart that have been buried, it is about a coming home to yourself, again and again. My training is integrative, and this reflects the approach I take with clients. There is no one size fits all, and I am passionate about meeting each individual where they are, working at an intuitive level. It is my experience that we each hold the answers we seek, but doing it alone is exhausting and deflating. As humans, we need one another, we need to lean on each other and be witnessed in our experience, in our pain. I offer a space that gives you the unique opportunity to be seen, providing a platform for growth and self-love.

I am trauma-informed in the work I do and work deeply with clients to identify what wounds are holding them back in life, helping them to lean into the pain so it can receive the attention it needs to heal. We are taught to avoid or fix our pain, this is a misguided myth; in this context of therapy, the solution is in building enough trust in the therapeutic relationship to make space for the grief to breathe. In doing this inner freedom is enabled. It's hard work, but it's heart work, and I am here to guide and walk alongside you in this process.

I work with a wide variety of issues, including but not limited to: abuse (including narcissistic abuse), sexual trauma, racial trauma and identity, depression, empath and HSP (highly sensitive people) challenges, eco/poly-crisis distress, activist burnout, LGBTQ+ (including gender dysphoria and transitioning), life transitions, generational trauma, divorce, relationship issues, codependency, low self-esteem, stress, bereavement, inner child work, sex and love addiction, anxiety and more.

I offer a sliding scale pay it forward scheme to help grow a low-cost clinic for those in need. My sliding scale is £80-£120, whatever you can afford on this scale is absolutely fine. I ask that clients choose a fee that would be sustainable and manageable for weekly sessions. There is the option to do fortnightly sessions, however I would usually advise at least two months of weekly sessions before undergoing fortnightly sessions as a lot can surface emotionally in the initial instance. The fee for fortnightly sessions is £100-£150 sliding scale.

For over fifteen years I'd been struggling with an ever-increasing number of mental health issues and traumas, many of which made it very hard for me to open up to people, and I had no idea how to even begin to deal with any of it. After eventually summoning the courage to find a therapist to help me, I found Orla who was patient and reassuring and who helped me to learn how to allow myself to feel and process painful memories, and to find the root causes of my anxieties instead of just pushing them down. I felt understood and seen, both as a queer and neurodivergent person, but also just as a person. They made me feel safe enough to open up about things I'd never been able to talk about and thought I never could. I went into our sessions without really believing I could ever make much progress, and just over a year later I have the tools and self-confidence to actually be able to cope with life and not be held back by my anxiety, and I am INCREDIBLY grateful to Orla for helping me to get to this point 😊.

Tabby

Robb Walters