If you've found your way here, you're likely going through a challenging time and might be looking for next steps.

Growing up, who you were and your feelings weren't noticed and understood with empathy by someone else.  Your parents were either preoccupied and struggled with mental health, addictions, were absent, due to divorce or death, leaving you emotionally abandoned, without receiving good enough mothering and parenting.

Do you feel as if an essential part of you is missing - a persistent sense of emptiness, disconnection, or lack of fulfilment? You find yourself adapting to others, meeting expectations, and holding yourself to very high standards, being perfect in an effort to feel accepted or “enough.” You are then harsh and critical, blaming yourself as you try to better yourself.

You may experience intense emotions such as anger, rage and constant disappointment, alongside a quieter, deeply painful sense of worthlessness, loneliness, or invisibility. You might feel different from others, as though you don’t quite belong, or question your right to exist.

Beneath, you feel a deep longing for closness and connection, to finally be loved, recognised, and for someone who cares, appreciates, and values you, yet you struggle to trust, expecting to be left, worrying that if someone truly knew you, they would not like you.

You struggle to recognise your own needs, express them, or ask for support. Instead, you may stay silent, prioritise others, lose touch with what truly matters to you, or swing to the other extreme and become overly demanding and aggressive.

You may withdraw and isolate from relationships or cling on for dear life.

Through online psychotherapy for adults healing from emotional abandonment and childhood neglect, I can support you in letting down your walls, learning to love yourself, and supporting you to feel whole, confident, and truly connected with yourself and others. You are in the right place, as together, discovering fulfilment, joy, and confidence in life and feeling at home with yourself, building a satisfying life, one that wants to live and nourishes connections with others.

Recovery is not only possible—it's within your reach. You are invaluable, and there is powerful hope for a future you desire ahead of you.

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