Awareness Counselling
Somewhere to step out of the roles you carry
Working With Me
A steady, individual therapeutic relationship
Hi I'm Zoe, I'm the counsellor behind Awareness Counselling, and I work independently, to offer a consistent one-to-one therapeutic relationship grounded in care, presence, and professional integrity. Clients work directly with me throughout. There is no handover, rotation, or team-based approach. The work is shaped through our ongoing relationship, built over time in a space that is private, reflective, confidential and contained.
A Space to Be
No pressure to perform
A place to step out of role
Much of professional life requires composure, clarity, and emotional control. In this space, that stance can soften. You are not required to manage impressions or hold yourself together for others. Counselling offers a pause from performance and expectation.
No right words
Beginning without a script
Many people arrive unsure what to say, or where to start. There is no need to arrive with a clear narrative or defined aims. Silence, uncertainty, and not knowing are all part of the work, and are met without judgement.
No fixing or advice
A non-directive way of working
This is not a space for being told what to do or how to feel. I do not offer solutions or direction. Instead, the work unfolds through careful attention to your experience, allowing understanding to develop at a pace that feels appropriate for you.
Room for complexity
Time to notice what has accumulated
Professional and personal pressures often build quietly over time. Counselling allows space to notice what has been carried, mentally and emotionally, without pressure to resolve it quickly. The work respects complexity and allows things to take the time they need.
How I Work
One-to-one, relational work
My work is grounded in person-centred and integrative counselling, offering a consistent, confidential theraputic relationship shaped over time.
Working independently allows me to provide a contained and dependable space, where the focus remains steadily on you and the depth of work we undertake together.
We work at a pace informed by your experiance rather than a pre-set agenda. This allows for thoughtful exploration, supporting a deeper understanding of the patterns, pressures, and transitions that may be shaping your inner and professional life.
A reflective therapeutic space
I do not offer quick solutions or prescriptive advice. Instead, I provide a calm, psychologically informed environment where careful reflection can take place.
Clients often come to therapy carrying significant responsibility, personally, personally or both. Within this space, there is room to think clearly, speak openly and examine what may feel complex or difficult without pressure to perform, resolve, or reach immediate conclusions.
The work respects uncertainty and depth, recognising that meaningful psychological change rarely happens in haste
Experience and professional grounding
I bring over eight years’ experience working with adults in private and professional settings, including clients internationally.
This breadth of experience informs a composed, ethically grounded way of working that prioritises professionalism, discretion, and relational integrity.
I have worked with a wide range of professionals, including senior leaders and CEOs, deepening my understanding of the psychological demands associated with high-responsibility roles.
Many of the individuals I support are thoughtful professionals navigating complexity-both within their working lives and beyond them.
Alongside this, I bring an informed awareness of neurodivergence, life transition, and nuanced experiences of women, including fertility journeys and return to professional life following maternity leave.
My work is further supported by an understanding of psychological growth models and developmental theory in relation to personal and professional change, allowing me to hold both emotional and developmental aspets of client's experience.
I maintain a thoughtfully limited caseload to ensure each client receives the level of psychological attention, presence and continuity that in-depth therapeutic work requires.
Who I Work With
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Professionals
I work with adults whose working lives carry responsibility, visibility, and pressure. Many are used to being capable, decisive, and relied upon, often with little space to process the impact of this over time.
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Leaders
This work often suits those in leadership or decision-making roles, where composure is expected and vulnerability is not easily expressed. Counselling offers a private space where nothing needs to be managed for others.
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Carriers
Some clients come because they are the ones who hold things together — emotionally, practically, or relationally. Over time, this can become quietly exhausting. This space allows that weight to be acknowledged and explored
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Individuals
I work one-to-one with adults seeking a psychologically informed, reflective space. The work respects your experience without analysing or pathologising it, and without reducing it to techniques or outcomes.
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
Viktor Frankl
Beginning the Work
