Trauma therapy for the past that keeps arriving in the present
Something that happened once, or for years, or so early you have no clear memory of a time before it. The flat heavy weight that turns up long afterwards and looks like depression. The startle, the bracing, the sense of watching your own life from a step behind.
Online, trauma informed therapy for adults across London and the rest of the UK. We go at the pace you set. You never have to say more than you want to, and never before you are ready.
What is trauma therapy, and how does it help?
Trauma therapy is a regular, confidential conversation with a therapist trained to work with difficult history safely. It is not being made to relive anything. It is space to understand why the past still arrives in the present, and to loosen the grip it has.
Most people arrive carrying two things: what happened, and what they had to believe about themselves in order to survive it. That it was their fault. That they are too much. That they should be over it by now. We work on both, because the second one is usually what keeps the first one alive.
Sessions are online, fifty minutes, the same time each week. You speak from a place you already know is safe, and when the session ends you are still at home. For a lot of people doing trauma work, not having to walk back out onto the street afterwards is what makes it possible at all.
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You set the pace, always. You never have to say more than you want to, and never before you are ready. Going slowly is not avoiding the work. In trauma therapy it often is the work.
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Safety comes before anything else. Before anything is revisited, we build ground to stand on. Ways to stay present, ways to settle the nervous system, ways to feel safe enough in the room.
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We work with the body, not just the story. Trauma lives in the nervous system as much as in memory. We pay attention to what your body is doing, not only to what happened.
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Diagnosis welcome, not required. You do not need a PTSD diagnosis, or even clear memories, to start. If something still has a hold on you, that is reason enough to begin.
The parts of trauma therapy can actually reach
You cannot change what happened. What therapy can change is the grip it still has on the present, and the story you have had to tell yourself to survive it.
Flashbacks and intrusions
The memories, images and feelings that arrive without warning, and ways to stay anchored in the present when they do.
Hypervigilance
The constant scanning for danger, often mistaken for anxiety. Helping an over-alert nervous system learn, slowly, that it is allowed to stand down.
Numbing and dissociation
The going blank, the not-quite-being-here. Understanding it as protection rather than failure, and gently coming back.
Shame and self-blame
The belief that it was somehow your fault, or that you should be over it by now. Setting that weight down where it belongs.
Trust and relationships
How trauma reshapes closeness, the bracing for betrayal, and finding your way back to people at a pace that is safe.
Making sense of the story
Integrating what happened so it becomes part of your history rather than a live wire, and reclaiming a sense of who you are now.
Signs of trauma long after the event
You do not need a PTSD diagnosis, or clear memories, to start therapy. If any of this is familiar, there is something here to work with.
- Flashbacks and intrusive memories
- Nightmares and broken sleep
- Always scanning for danger
- Startling easily
- Going blank or numb
- Feeling detached from yourself
- Avoiding places and reminders
- Shame that will not shift
- Finding it hard to trust
- Anger that arrives fast
- Never fully able to relax
- Feeling unsafe in your own body
Start trauma therapy 3 simple steps
Starting therapy does not have to feel complicated. Here is exactly what happens, with no waiting list and no GP referral. Most people begin weekly sessions within a week of their assessment.
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Book your initial assessment
A confidential one-hour session (£50) with a senior member of our team. You do not have to tell us everything, or tell it in order. We only need enough to match you well.
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We match you by hand
To a therapist trained in trauma informed work, chosen on what you are bringing and on who you would feel safest opening up to. Language too, if that matters to you.
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Begin weekly sessions
Fifty minutes, online, the same time each week, for as long as it is doing something. We go at the pace you set, and nothing moves faster than you can manage.
Transparent, honest trauma therapy fees
No hidden costs and no membership fees. Every session includes a therapist matched to you by hand, a secure video platform, and weekly clinical supervision. Here is exactly what we charge.
A confidential conversation, at your pace. You do not have to tell us everything. We work out what would help, and match you to the right therapist and approach.
- One hour with a senior member of our team
- Personalised therapist matching
- No commitment to continue
Trauma informed therapy at an accessible price. Counsellors in accredited training, supervised weekly by our clinical lead, working to the same ethical framework as everyone else here.
- Supervised weekly by our clinical lead
- Same ethical framework, same standards
- Individual therapy, adults 18+
Fully qualified, registered therapists trained in trauma informed work, including complex and childhood trauma and the depression or anxiety that often arrives with it.
- BACP, UKCP or COSRT registered
- Experienced with complex and childhood trauma
- Couples therapy from £250
Therapy should not depend on what you can afford or how long you can wait. If £50 is still too much right now, tell us when you book and we will tell you honestly what we can do. The assessment also decides which of our therapists is the right fit, so the match is clinical, not only financial.
You have carried it
this long on your own
Your first step is one hour. No GP referral, no waiting list, no obligation to continue. And if you are not ready to book yet, just tell us what is going on and we will write back.