Jo Shaw

Many of my clients identify within the LGBTQI+ spectrum. I've worked with a range of issues, including anxiety, depression, low self-worth, family and relationship tensions, abuse (emotional, psychological and sexual), bullying, emotional vulnerability and sensitivity, stress, gender and sexual identity and more. 

I'll spend a lot of time listening with empathy and always working collaboratively with you to find what feels right, helping you to find a way forward. I might draw upon ideas around how patterns of behaviour or feelings are rooted in our past and how exploring their origins can allow us to move on from them, or perhaps work to help you appreciate that you are not the problem (and that the problem is the problem), giving you some mental and emotional distance to look afresh at your challenges. Or perhaps we'll look at the stories you've been telling yourself inside about yourself, how they got there (parents, school, society?) and how to rediscover a rich, resilient and different inner narrative for yourself.