Azbel Szczepaniak

I am a BACP registered integrative counsellor. I work with tenderness and curiosity around subjects of gender and sexuality, life transitions and change, emotional dysregulation and burnout. If you feel lost in all that the world expects of you, who you are, what is meaningful to you and what you need, I am here to offer you the space to rest, reflect and find the way forward.

Perhaps you reflect on your life and you don't know how you got here. You feel like you fell into a life that was decided for you, one that you felt obliged to follow. Your day to day is dictated by 'shoulds' and 'musts' with little to no autonomy or time for yourself. And you feel exhausted.

Perhaps you are exploring your gender identity and sexuality (maybe not for the first time) and struggling to find what these mean to you. On top of your own struggles you feel like you are constantly dealing with how people react to you, in their eyes, falling short of being gay/bi/trans/queer 'enough'.Or you feel unprepared and stressed about sex because no one took the time to explore this with you. 

Perhaps you feel disconnected from your body. You get surprised by sudden emotional breakdowns that seemingly come from nowhere. Or you feel numb and distant, unable to let the emotions out. You are stuck in the state of alertness, not knowing how to soothe your racing mind, overwhelmed emotions and overstimulated body.