Sarah Hamilton – Psychotherapist

I am a fully accredited Psychotherapist and Counsellor, and a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and also the UK Council for Psychotherapy. I am regularly supervised, comprehensively insured, and have an enhanced DBS-check for working with vulnerable adults.

At the heart of my professional qualifications is a masters-level Postgraduate Diploma in Psychotherapy. This rigorous 4-year training encompassed a broad range of therapeutic approaches, which enables me to work flexibly according to each person’s needs.

I have undertaken extensive further training in trauma-treatment and mind-body interconnectivity, including in-person training with some of the world’s leading trauma experts. I’ve completed an in-depth diploma on the issues faced by adults who went to boarding school, and have conducted academic research into how courage influences therapeutic change. And I am a qualified practitioner in the “Rewind technique”, a highly effective (and fast) treatment for PTSD symptoms such as flashbacks and nightmares.

My training and work as a therapist draws on a wide range of approaches. I have always been particularly interested in therapies that have been proven to work at depth to achieve lasting, transformational change.

Conversational Psychotherapy integrates many of these different strands into one coherent, effective, flexible framework. It’s especially good for ensuring that your changes in therapy will ‘stick’, and that you leave with a strong, confident and resilient sense of self.

Despite its name, this way of working is not an ‘everyday chat’. It will involve us taking both a wider-than-usual perspective on your life, and also conducting a more forensic examination of the details. But the overall aim is for our conversations to feel comfortable and approachable, as we work towards the changes you wish to see in your life and yourself.