You survived your childhood, but you still live in survival mode.

Specialising In Childhood Emotional Neglect

I work predominantly with adults aged 18–40 who grew up having their emotional world was consistently overlooked, dismissed, or denied. This is called childhood emotional neglect. This is a population that is routinely misunderstood and misidentified in general therapy. Most therapists will see your anxiety, your depression, and your relationship difficulties and treat those as the problem. I focus on the thing underneath that's driving all of them, working with the underlying relational and developmental injury that's producing them.

I use Internal Family Systems to work directly with the parts of you that carry shame, that perform, that shut down, that cope.

I use Somatic approaches because emotional neglect is not a mindset problem. It lives in your unconscious and deeper body.

I use Psychodynamic and attachment-informed work to make visible the relational patterns you can't see from the point of being stuck inside them, this is imperative to stop unconsciously recreating the dynamics you grew up in and start making choices from awareness rather than familiarity.

All of this must happen inside a therapeutic relationship that is itself the intervention. The research is clear on: for people who grew up feeling alone, ignored, and emotionally neglected, the single most powerful mechanism of change is the sustained experience of being in the presence of someone who is genuinely attuned to you, tracking your experience in real time with precision and care.

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The struggle emotional neglect leaves us with, is not a mindset problem. Its mark is neurobiological, relational, and perceptional.

Hi, I’m Tailah

Most kids wanted to be astronauts, I wanted to be a therapist. Since I was 8 years old I distinctly remember watching my parents and knowing there was something that could be done to change the way things were.. I obviously didn't have the language for it then, but I understood that people get stuck in patterns that hurt their potential and well-being (even if the patterns are unconscious and unintentional) , and that with the right support, those patterns could shift.

My childhood insight became my life's work.

I'm an ACA-registered counsellor with specialised training in Internal Family Systems, Somatic Psychotherapy, Psychodynamic therapy, Acceptance and Commitment therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Meditation.

I’ve trained in varying modalities because developmental trauma [like emotional neglect] is complex, healing must be multifaceted.

“I spent 10 months with Tailah learning how to connect and feel safe in my body. These days I can have a conflict with my partner without shutting down for days, I can make better decisions, I know how to care for myself and all of my quirks, best of all, I feel like myself."

— Anitha K.

You might have grown up in a home where:

~ Your emotional needs were invisible or treated as burdensome

~ You had to manage your parents' emotions instead of them supporting yours

~ Love felt conditional on performance, compliance, or being good

~ You were safe physically, but felt utterly alone emotionally

~ Your parents were unpredictable; you never knew which version of them you'd get

~ Things looked fine from the outside. But you survived by adapting, performing, disappearing.

there is something that can be done

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Change doesn't happen through understanding alone. You can analyse your psychology perfectly and have zero changes.

Real change happens when we work with your whole system, your body, your protective parts, your deeply held beliefs, not just your thoughts about what happened.

I became a therapist because I know that healing from adversity and trauma is possible. Not just managing it, nor just understanding it, but actually transforming how it all lives in your body and how you show up in your life.

And after years of doing this work, I've seen it happen over and over again: people who thought they were broken discover they were just stuck in patterns that once made perfect sense, but as time has gone on, have become spiritually, emotionally, and mentally depleting.

RELIEF & REVIVAL.

How We Work Together

Step 1: Connection Call (Free, 15 minutes)

We talk about what you're experiencing and whether this is right for you. The goal is clarity about fit. If we're aligned, we book your first session.

Questions before booking? Send me a message and I'll get back to you as soon as possible.

Step 2: First Session ($190, 60 minutes)

We’ll explore your experience in depth, your patterns, the stuck points, what you've tried. We will shine light on your underlying structure: how emotional neglect disrupted specific developmental processes, what protective patterns formed in response, why insight alone hasn't changed anything.

You'll leave with:

The actual mechanism behind your symptoms
Why your nervous system responds the way it does
What needs to change (not just what needs to be understood)

First sessions are booked after your connection call.

Step 3: Ongoing Work ($190, 60 minutes)

This is where things that haven't budged despite years of trying have the opportunity to change.

You discover what you actually want, not what you should want and can stop shutting down.
The unhelpful inner voice starts to quiet.
You learn to identify and navigate feelings instead of overwhelm and spirals. b
We work with the shame you've been carrying and grief that has been easier to avoid.
We condition your nervous system to trust.
You re-member your connection to the true you.
Shifts are incremental, and mean the world in the grand scheme of your life. Week after week, you experience being truly seen without being rejected. Your nervous system updates its perceptions.

Timeline: Most people work with me for 12-18 months. Some shorter, some longer, following the rough structure of, Weekly → Fortnightly → Monthly.

Primary Modalities: IFS for self perception structures. Somatic therapy for neurobiological and working with the nervous system. Relational healing through the space itself. Psychodynamic work for seeing unconscious patterns.

Cancellation policy: 12 hours notice required, or full session fee applies.

Between sessions: Email support for check-ins or urgent questions (not ongoing therapy, but I'm accessible).

Required: Be willing to be experience discomfort. Be honest.

Not required: Being articulate. Being good at therapy.