One to One Therapy 

 

You're managing. Objectively, things are fine — or fine enough. You show up — to work, to college, to school, to everyone who needs you — and you keep the plates spinning. But underneath, you're exhausted in a way that doesn't quite make sense from the outside. Overwhelmed by things that shouldn't be this hard. Disconnected from yourself, or from a version of yourself you used to recognise. Maybe a bit ashamed that you're not coping better, given how "fine" everything looks.If any of that sounds familiar — that gap between what people see and what's actually going on — that's really what my work is about.

 

Where this shows up

 

This gap shows up in a few different ways, depending on where you are in your life.

 

In early motherhood

It's often the disappearing act — loving your baby completely and still not recognising yourself, watching the structures that used to hold you up vanish overnight, and feeling like you're the only one who isn't coping with it.

 

In neurodivergence

The exhaustion of a life spent working twice as hard to look half as put-together — masking, over-preparing, people-pleasing — and the particular shock of motherhood or adulthood finally exposing what you'd been holding together on sheer effort alone. I've spent years working with neurodivergent young people and, separately, running therapeutic groups for new parents — and it's the overlap of the two, neurodivergent motherhood specifically, that I find myself drawn to again and again.

 

In young adulthood

Everyone else somehow got the instructions for how to be a person, and you're still waiting for yours — feeling different, anxious, or stuck, without a clear reason why.Wherever you recognise yourself in this, that's the starting point. Not a diagnosis, not a category — just the fact that you've been holding a lot, for a while, mostly alone.