Sara Williams

I am a Relational Therapist, facilitating awareness of the ‘why’ behind the challenges you face, to gain understanding and release from suffering.

As an experienced therapist, informed by professional and lived experience, I am able to hold the space for deep and sometimes difficult exploration, where I am active with unimposing intervention and challenge, to support re-connection to your authentic self.

A private practice professional in the therapeutic space since the mid-1990s, I’ve lived and practised in Australia, Asia, Africa, Europe and the UK. As a result I have extensive experience working cross-culturally, with great sensitivity.

This includes working with immigrants, ex-pats, refugee trauma survivors, and significant ongoing experience with a large client base in the Arab States.

Counselling training in Psychodynamic and Clarkson 5-Strand Relationship Model, along with practice in bodywork, talking therapies and behaviour change experience inform my Integrative Counselling approach, where relationships and how we relate to ourselves (including our body) and others, is key to understanding how we experience life and its influence on our physical and mental wellbeing.

My private practice is further enriched by work in the corporate EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) industry on Clinical Assessments and handling clients at immediate risk of suicide and self harm, along with ongoing work as a School Counsellor in a central London senior school.

Key tenets to my approach include:

• Our past enters the room with us - We arrive as the culmination of everything we have lived, giving us access to the past in the present.
  
• Whole-body awareness - It is body connection that keeps our mind in check and settles incessant thinking.
  
• ’In-between the sessions’ - Sustainable change requires that realisations reached in the therapeutic work are put into practice in everyday life.
  
• Personal Responsibility - Liberation from suffering lies in understanding that the triggers lie within us, releasing us from the blame, guilt and shame cycle.
  
• Relational Depth - Our first relationship is with ourselves, and the quality of this informs our relationship with others.
  

Specialisms

• Relationships - individual and couple
  
• Anxiety related challenges, and depression
  
• Bereavement, Divorce and relationship endings
  
• Childhood Attachment and protection mechanisms
  
• Identity - Cultural, religious, LGBTQ+, transgender
  
• Menopause - symptoms and mental health impact
  
• Negative self talk and limiting self image
  
• Neurodiversity - ADHD, Autism Spectrum
  
• Work - stress, change, direction, purpose

How I Work

At its foundation, therapy is a relationship, so it is important to discern the person you intend to work with. You can contact me for a connect video call (up to 30mins, no charge) to discuss what you are looking for and get a sense of each other. If agreeable, we would book an initial consultation session to establish the foundation of working together based on what your intentions are, and discuss length and frequency of your counselling programme.

I work short term and long term, in-person and online, with clients in the UK and overseas.

All counselling sessions thereafter are 50mins.

Individual: £85/session

I am a Relational Therapist, facilitating awareness of the ‘why’ behind the challenges you face, to gain understanding and release from suffering.

As an experienced therapist, informed by professional and lived experience, I am able to hold the space for deep and sometimes difficult exploration, where I am active with unimposing intervention and challenge, to support re-connection to your authentic self.

A private practice professional in the therapeutic space since the mid-1990s, I’ve lived and practised in Australia, Asia, Africa, Europe and the UK. As a result I have extensive experience working cross-culturally, with great sensitivity.

This includes working with immigrants, ex-pats, refugee trauma survivors, and significant ongoing experience with a large client base in the Arab States.

Counselling training in Psychodynamic and Clarkson 5-Strand Relationship Model, along with practice in bodywork, talking therapies and behaviour change experience inform my Integrative Counselling approach, where relationships and how we relate to ourselves (including our body) and others, is key to understanding how we experience life and its influence on our physical and mental wellbeing.

My private practice is further enriched by work in the corporate EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) industry on Clinical Assessments and handling clients at immediate risk of suicide and self harm, along with ongoing work as a School Counsellor in a central London senior school.

Key tenets to my approach include:

• Our past enters the room with us - We arrive as the culmination of everything we have lived, giving us access to the past in the present.
  
• Whole-body awareness - It is body connection that keeps our mind in check and settles incessant thinking.
  
• ’In-between the sessions’ - Sustainable change requires that realisations reached in the therapeutic work are put into practice in everyday life.
  
• Personal Responsibility - Liberation from suffering lies in understanding that the triggers lie within us, releasing us from the blame, guilt and shame cycle.
  
• Relational Depth - Our first relationship is with ourselves, and the quality of this informs our relationship with others.
  

Specialisms

* Relationships - individual and couple

* Anxiety related challenges, and depression

* Bereavement, Divorce and relationship endings

* Childhood Attachment and protection mechanisms

* Identity - Cultural, religious, LGBTQ+, transgender

* Menopause - symptoms and mental health impact

* Negative self talk and limiting self image

* Neurodiversity - ADHD, Autism Spectrum

* Work - stress, change, direction, purpose

How I Work

At its foundation, therapy is a relationship, so it is important to discern the person you intend to work with. You can contact me for a connect video call (up to 30mins, no charge) to discuss what you are looking for and get a sense of each other. If agreeable, we would book an initial consultation session to establish the foundation of working together based on what your intentions are, and discuss length and frequency of your counselling programme.

I work short term and long term, in-person and online, with clients in the UK and overseas. 

All counselling sessions thereafter are 50mins.