An hour that's yours
Somewhere you're not looking after anyone else.
Tiredness that sleep doesn't fix, boundaries nobody ever showed you how to set, and the way your sense of yourself shifts when your life does.
What women most often bring
Exhaustion that rest doesn't touch, and resentment that feels like something you're not allowed to have. Anxiety that looks from the outside like being extremely capable. Boundaries that were never modelled for you, so you've had to work them out from scratch in your thirties or forties. The particular grief of becoming a mother and losing the person you were beforehand, while everyone around you talks only about the baby. Perimenopause, and the rage that arrives out of proportion and then gets apologised for.
Pregnancy, birth and the years after
Several of our counsellors have specific training in this period: fertility, pregnancy loss, difficult births, postnatal anxiety and depression, and the first two years, which almost nobody prepares you for honestly. This is clinical work rather than reassurance, and it's held by people who know the territory.
Your body, and the long negotiation with it
How you feel about your body, what you've absorbed about what it should look like, and the effort of advocating for yourself in medical settings that don't always listen. We work with this carefully and without prescribing anything. There are no plans, no numbers and no targets here. If disordered eating is part of the picture, please mention it early so we can match you with someone trained for it or refer you to a specialist service.
Common questions
Before you begin
Do I have to see a woman counsellor?
Not at all, and many people don't. But if you'd prefer to, just say so and we'll arrange it. It's a completely reasonable request and nobody will ask you why.
Is this different from ordinary therapy?
The clinical work is the same. What's different is sitting with someone who doesn't need the context explained to them first.
I'm struggling but nothing actually happened.
Things that grind on quietly for years produce entirely real symptoms: an unequal load at home, a job that takes more than it gives, effort that nobody ever acknowledged. You don't need a single event to justify asking for support.
Ready when you are.
Fifteen minutes, free, no clinical intake. Just a conversation about whether this is the right room for what you're carrying.