Counselling and therapy for women over 50
Support for overwhelm, anxiety, people-pleasing, and life transitions — so you can feel more like yourself again.
Have You Become Someone You Don't Quite Recognise?
Perhaps you’ve found yourself reacting in ways you never used to.
You snap at someone you love, then spend the next two days replaying the conversation and wondering why.
You keep everything together for everyone else, until one small thing tips you over.
You lie awake wishing you had handled it differently.
You wonder why, after all the personal growth, all the books, all the understanding, you still seem to get pulled into the same old patterns.
And quietly, you begin asking yourself a question that feels frightening to admit:
Have I become someone I don’t quite recognise?
Or perhaps even more painful…
Have I become someone I don’t really want to be?
If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone. And there is a reason it keeps happening.
You Don't Have to Keep Living this Way
Most of the women I work with are thoughtful, capable and deeply caring.
From the outside, they look like they’re coping. Inside, they’re exhausted.
Exhausted from trying to manage their reactions.
From being hard on themselves.
From carrying the same inner struggles year after year.
From wondering why they can’t simply “get over it.”
Over time, that inner struggle begins to affect the people they love. Conversations become harder and relationships become more careful.
Bit by bit, we even stop trusting ourselves. And another year slips by.
The good news is It doesn’t have to stay this way!
What If This Time Next Year You Recognised Yourself Again?
Imagine moving through difficult conversations without losing yourself.
Imagine understanding your reactions instead of fearing them.
Imagine trusting yourself again.
Imagine recognising the woman looking back at you, and liking her.
This is about beginning to understand what has been trying to protect you all along, not about analysing or setting out to fix you.
This work offers a different relationship with yourself. A way of making sense of what’s happening inside you. And, little by little, a way back to the woman you’ve always known yourself to be.
If you’re ready to begin, I’d be honoured to walk alongside you.
Learn more about my Initial 60-Minute 1:1 Inner World Mapping Session below.
Mapping Your Inner World | 1:1 Discovery Session
You don’t always need months of ongoing work.
Sometimes, a single conversation can help you finally understand why you keep reacting in ways you don’t want to, so you can begin to make the shifts that actually stick.
In this 60-minute session, we’ll gently explore one pattern that keeps showing up in your life.
It might be:
- harsh self-criticism
- reactions you regret
- people-pleasing
- shutting down
- feeling overwhelmed
- never feeling good enough
Together we’ll map what’s happening beneath that pattern.
This is about beginning to understand what has been trying to protect you all along, not about analysing or setting out to fix you.
Many women leave with something they have been searching for over the years: a way of making sense of themselves.
When your inner world begins to make sense, your relationship with yourself begins to change.
The dread of becoming a grumpy, reactive version of yourself starts to loosen its grip.
You stop worrying that you are turning into your mother on her hardest days, or into the cranky, short tempered version of yourself you swore you would never become.
You recognise the voice that comes out when you are overwhelmed, and instead of fearing it means you have turned into someone else, you understand exactly where it came from and how to meet it differently.
About Suzanne
For more than thirty years I’ve worked alongside people carrying real pain.
I began as a massage therapist, listening to what the body was holding long before I had the language to describe it.
That work naturally led me to Internal Family Systems, where I discovered a way of understanding the inner world that felt deeply compassionate and profoundly practical.
Alongside this, I have maintained a Buddhist practice for more than thirty years, which continues to shape the way I meet every person who comes to see me, with curiosity, patience and respect for every part of their experience.
So many women arrive here believing something is wrong with them. What I see instead is something that makes sense, once we understand it. Together we’ll discover what that is.