Anxiety & Burnout Therapy in Nantwich, Cheshire & Online
For when you look fine on the outside and feel like you're running on empty.
You're the one who copes. You answer the messages, remember the birthdays, carry the mental load nobody else seems to see. From the outside you're capable, dependable, the safe pair of hands. On the inside you're tired in a way sleep doesn't touch, wired and flat at the same time, and the patience you used to have has worn thin.
Maybe it shows up as the 3am brain that won't switch off. The chest that's tight before the day's even started. The snapping at people you love and the guilt that follows. Or just a grey, low-grade dread that's been humming away so long you've stopped questioning it.
Here's the thing that keeps people like you out of the therapy room: a quiet voice saying you're not bad enough to be here. Other people have real problems. You're functioning, aren't you? You're managing. That voice is exactly the one that got you this exhausted in the first place — and you don't have to wait until you've fallen apart to get some support.
Who I work with most
A lot of my clients are conscientious, high-achieving people — often women — whose first instinct when anything goes wrong is what could I have done differently? The work is usually somewhere in here:
Anxiety that's tipped from a useful edge into the thing running your nervous system
Burnout — not the dramatic kind, the slow grey kind that creeps up over months
A relentless inner critic that won't let anything be good enough
Difficulty resting, switching off, or even feeling allowed to
The sense that being needed feels safer than being looked after
How I work — Integrative Transactional Analysis
My core training is in Integrative Transactional Analysis (TA): a warm, practical, collaborative way of working. In plain terms, TA looks at the patterns we built early in life — to be good, to be useful, to be no trouble — and how they're still quietly running the show now, long after they stopped serving us. Once we can see the pattern, you get more choice about it. It isn't about blaming anyone; it's about looking honestly at what you've been carrying, and putting some of it down.
What this work tends to open up
I won't promise you a fixed outcome — anyone who does is selling something. But this is the kind of shift clients often describe: more space between the trigger and the reaction, a quieter inner critic, permission to rest without guilt, and a clearer sense of who you are underneath all the doing.
Practicalities
Individual sessions are 50 minutes (£55), in central Nantwich or online anywhere in the UK — including across South Cheshire and Crewe. We usually start with a free introductory call so you can get a feel for me before you commit to anything. Any questions please email me, I’d love to hear from you hello@thepsychotherapyplace.co.uk
FAQs
I'm not in crisis — is it okay to come anyway?
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Yes, and most of my clients aren't. People often come because something's been quietly off for a long time and they're finally done ignoring it. That's reason enough.
Will I have to talk about my childhood?
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Only as far as you want to. I do work by paying attention to early patterns, but I won't push you somewhere you're not ready to go. What we explore is always your call.
I've tried therapy before and it didn't help.
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Tell me — knowing what didn't land last time is genuinely useful. So much of whether therapy works comes down to fit, and that's worth taking seriously from the start.