Integrative Psychotherapy & Counselling in Leicester & Online
Close to 20 years of clinical experience helping women break free from chronic anxiety, overthinking, and stress cycles through evidence-based therapy.
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Are you tired of waking up anxious, living on edge and running on empty?
When constant stress, anxiety, or boundary burnout take over, trying to “think your way out” stops working. Therapy provides a structured, practical path out of survival mode and back into internal stability.
- Regulate your stress response: Address the physical tension and exhaustion caused by anxiety so your mind and body can settle.
- Interrupt unhelpful cycles: Dismantle chronic overthinking, people-pleasing, and boundary erosion at the root.
- Build practical resilience: Develop effective psychological tools that translate directly into your everyday life.
Why Clients Choose My Practice
Clients come to my practice when surface-level advice and quick fixes haven’t worked. Combining traditional psychotherapy with counselling and somatic approaches, I provide targeted, evidence-based care designed for real-world change, not just endless talking.
“Shelly helped me to go from anxious, miserable and stuck to confident, happy and finally moving forward. I changed my life with 5 powerful sessions, its changed everything for me” (Jenni/Leics)
Therapy with me is warm, focused and practical. Here's what makes my approach different:
- I combine evidence based therapy with practical tools, and time tested wisdom.
- I understand your world because I've lived your struggles.
- Featured expertise in Glamour Magazine, BBC Radio 5 Live, Apple News. Registered, Ethical Practice.
- I specialise in helping you overcome people pleasing, create safe boundaries and get your life back on track again.
Alongside my private practice, I work with professional performers, in respected wellness centres and leading aesthetic clinics. I’m proud to feature regularly in media as a voice for emotional wellbeing and resilience.
How I can help
Whether you’re looking for emotional support, stress relief or how to overcome anxiety, my tailored therapy packages are designed to create lasting change and daily stability. Find your calm, today.
The Reset - Start Here
A powerful single session to regulate your nervous system and reduce physiological anxiety. Someone to talk to when it all gets too much, to bare with on your own.
Whether it’s historic or you need support navigating a specific challenge today, you’ll leave with greater clarity, a clear next step and renewed confidence in your decisions.
The Calm Method - One Month Focused Support
Designed to step in when stress or anxiety becomes unmanageable. Across three sessions, you will identify your primary triggers, learn practical self-regulation tools, and establish lasting strategies to navigate pressure without burnout.
A practical short term framework built to give you real-time tools for daily stability.
Stop Vaping or Smoking (In One Session)
Break free from nicotine dependence without the struggle of conscious force. This focused single session utilises deep-level cognitive reframing to interrupt habitual automatic responses, eliminating underlying triggers, and establishing lasting behavioural freedom.
The Confidence Series: Six Session Therapy
A structured three month therapeutic container to unpack chronic people-pleasing, establish clear personal boundaries, and dismantle deep seated self-doubt.
Gain practical strategies to communicate your needs assertively, overcome fear of conflict, and make decisions aligned with your core values.
Practical, Evidence-Based Therapy Built Around Real Change
Counselling & Psychotherapy in Leicester and Online.
Anxiety, stress, and overwhelm don’t just stay in your head, they show up in your body as physical tension, exhaustion, and a constantly on-edge nervous system.
With nearly two decades of clinical experience with clients, I use an integrative approach that connects how you think with how your body holds onto stress. Together, we work to break chronic anxiety patterns, unpack deep-seated overwhelm, and give you practical tools to regain calm, clarity, and control.