Counselling in Sheffield

I offer a space where difficult feelings can be explored without pressure to fix or explain them before they are ready to be understood.

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My background is in social work and therapeutic pastoral care. Over the past decade, I have worked in community mental health, family support and education, supporting adults, young people and families through experiences of trauma, anxiety, loss, relationship difficulties and suicidality. 

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These years of work have shaped the way I meet distress: with patience, steadiness and honesty. I don’t rush to reassure or move past what’s painful. I believe that feeling fully seen and understood is what allows change to happen.

I work with people experiencing anxiety, low mood, burnout, trauma, relationship challenges or suicidal thoughts. For some, these experiences can be hard to put into words. When language feels limited, I sometimes use music in the room as another way of expressing or sensing emotional experience. This is not something you need any musical skill for. It is simply another way of listening, together.

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I also understand how suicide and suicidal thoughts can move through families and relationships, sometimes across generations. Because of this, I work in a way that allows space for the full range of feelings that can accompany it: grief, confusion, numbness, longing, rage, relief and love. You do not need to protect me from those feelings.

I don’t see my role as telling you what to do. I see it as accompanying you while you get close enough to your own experience to hear what it has been asking for. We move gently. We stay with what matters. We make room for what has felt unsayable.

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You are welcome here exactly as you are.

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Please click below or email oakbranchescounselling@gmail.com to book an appointment.