“The wound is the place where the light enters you” Rumi
Therapy for who you are, and who you have always been beneath it
There is a particular kind of difficulty that does not always show on the outside. You may be capable, successful, the person others turn to. And yet inside, something feels harder to hold than anyone around you might guess — anxiety that quietly sits beneath the surface, patterns in relationships that keep repeating, a sense of being disconnected from yourself, or simply the feeling that something is no longer sustainable, even if you cannot quite name what.
People come to therapy at many different points. Some arrive with a specific difficulty, others with a longer, quieter sense that the way they have been living is no longer working. Often, the patterns we carry began as something protective — ways of coping, of feeling safe, of being accepted by the world around us. Over time, however, these same patterns can begin to feel restrictive, leaving us at a distance from ourselves, our relationships, or the life we hoped to live.
My work is about gently exploring those patterns together, and creating space for something deeper, freer, and more honest to emerge.
I offer a thoughtful, confidential, and non-judgemental therapeutic space, drawing on an integrative approach informed by psychodynamic, attachment-based, existential, humanistic, and body-oriented psychotherapy. The work is relational and collaborative, with a focus on helping you understand yourself with greater depth, and create change that lasts.
Some of what I work with:
anxiety, overwhelm, and the experience of feeling stuck
relationship and attachment difficulties
trauma, including early or developmental trauma
low self-worth, self-criticism, and shame
depression, emotional numbness, and burnout
grief, bereavement, and loss
identity, life transitions, and questions of belonging
intimacy, desire, and patterns in close relationships
Fareda Barlas Integrative Psychotherapist for Individuals and Couples EMDR Therapist · Relationship Specialist MA, Adv. Dip. Psychotherapy · UKCP Accredited · MBACP