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I'm an ACA-registered counsellor with 3 years of private practice specialising in childhood emotional neglect (CEN) for adults aged 19-40.

I work with high-functioning adults who experienced an emotional absence in childhood and now struggle relationally, with themselves and others, often despite external success.

These people are often missed within traditional therapy because their wounds are difficult to spot and they don’t respond to standard therapeutic interventions given for the symptoms they describe (anxiousness, perfectionism, negative self talk, emptiness, bouts of depression) this population often experiences emotional dissonance, struggles to identify what they feel or want, and has a complicated relationship to receiving support.

Emotional neglect is a developmental trauma, distinct from acute trauma though often sharing similar symptoms, that tangles the psyche in complex and specific ways. It affects a large subset of people, yet remains deeply misunderstood and frequently mistreated in psychotherapy.

Because it is subtle and hard to spot, recognising it requires a nuanced, deep understanding of how growing up without adequate attunement shapes a person’s emotional development and inner life.

I integrate Internal Family Systems, somatic psychotherapy, psychodynamic theory, emotion centred therapy and other evidence based techniques from ACT, CBT and DBT to address and heal the relational patterns beneath the current experience.

My focus is on holistic healing, not just symptom management.