About — Self & Shadow Online Therapy

I Know This Darkness From the Inside

I didn't come to this work through textbooks alone.

I came through grief, prolonged, compound, the kind that doesn't follow a timetable or respond to reassurance. I came through growing up as the scapegoat in a family system shaped by narcissism, carrying a weight I didn't have a name for until much later. I came through years of doing my own work, sitting with my own shadow, and learning, slowly, honestly, what it means to stop abandoning yourself.

That is the ground I work from.

Why I Work the Way I Do

Most people who find me aren't falling apart on the outside. They're holding everything together, the job, the relationships, the responsibilities. But inside, something doesn't add up. There's an emptiness they can't explain, a pattern they keep repeating, a voice in their head that was never really theirs.

I know that place. I've lived in it.

Solution focused hypnotherapy gave me a map. Shadow work gave me a torch. And the myths and metaphors I've spent years writing gave me a language for what lives beneath — the parts of us that logic can't reach but story can.

What I Bring to This Work

- Lived experience of scapegoating, narcissistic family systems, and compound grief

- Diploma in Solution Focused Hypnotherapy

- Qualified Hypnotherapy Practitioner

- Trauma Informed CPD and ongoing professional development

- Original therapeutic myths, metaphors and guided visualisations, written from the inside out

- A deep belief that the darkness in your mind is not the enemy. It is trying to tell you something.

My Mission

To light the darkness in people's minds and show them the way home to themselves.

Not by fixing you. Not by reframing you. But by walking into the difficult places alongside you, with story, symbol, and the kind of understanding that only comes from having been there.

Using solution focused hypnotherapy and a trauma informed approach, we explore both the conscious and unconscious mind, the self and the shadow.