If You’re Still Struggling After Emotional or Narcissistic Abuse? There’s a Reason
The effects of narcissistic abuse are often long-lasting, confusing, and hard to explain — even to yourself.
You may feel stuck, anxious, ashamed or disconnected, despite everything you’ve done to try and move on.
This isn’t because you’re failing. It’s because the trauma hasn’t been fully met…yet.
I offer specialist support to help you make sense of what’s happened and begin to feel like yourself again.
You can learn calm, practical tools that don’t overwhelm your system and help you move on with your life.
I’m a specialist in narcissistic abuse recovery with over 30 years’ experience in trauma work.
Alongside my professional training, I also bring lived experience and personal understanding to this work.
My approach is calm, non-judgemental, and informed by both evidence and experience.
Emotional & Narcissistic Abuse Recovery
As someone with a lived experience of emotional abuse and C-PTSD, I am committed to helping others find useful and effective and lasting pathways out of excess stress and into trauma recovery.
Recent research found 34% of people aged 18-65 across the UK had been in a coercive, controlling relationship, with 53% having experienced bullying or controlling behaviour from a partner.
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TRE® Certified Provider Training
“The most wonderful, life-changing experience which must be felt to be believed…”
When we experience the trauma of abusive relationships and learn to walk on eggshells as a way to survive, over time the nervous system becomes stuck in patterns of fight, flight or freeze. We need effective, body based tools to be able to move out of this stuck position. TRE® is a doorway back to harmony again.
The TRE® Certification training program teaches wellbeing professionals, therapists and individuals who come from a variety of professional and educational backgrounds to learn to teach TRE® safely and effectively to individual clients and groups.
What Is Emotional Abuse?
Who is Recovery For?
Many people don’t realise what they’ve experienced was abuse — especially when there were no raised voices or visible bruises. But the signs are often there:
Constant self-doubt or second-guessing yourself
Feeling numb, anxious, or unable to relax
Emotional blame-shifting, guilt-tripping or gaslighting
Isolation from friends, support, or a sense of self
Walking on eggshells, even in your own home or body
You don’t have to tick every box.
And you don’t need to label it perfectly before you begin to heal.
Some signs of emotional abuse are name calling, insulting, highly critical behaviour along with manipulation of your emotions, alienation from friends and family and distorting reality (gaslighting). For more information see my free download below.
As much emotional abuse is hidden, confusing or never reported it is difficult to guage exact figures. However, each year, nearly 2 million people in the UK suffer some form of domestic abuse. That is 1.3 million female victims (8.2% of the population) and 600,000 male victims.
It is a common misconception that ‘weak’ people are targeted for abuse. It is often the reverse. It has nothing to do with the weakness of character, lack of intelligence or spirit. However, the effects of this abuse can be devastating. For more information about recovery click HERE
In the UK, on average victims experience 50 incidents of abuse before getting effective help.
“I’ve been working with Kate for 18 months now, and can safely say that I’m more ‘me’ than I’ve ever been. To want to stay in my body and not fly away. Feeling myself as a safe place, for myself and others? Unbelievable to me a year ago.
I feel I’ve run rings around CBT therapists in the past (and not consciously either) because I can all-too-easily use words to distract & deflect, to fill time, to keep my security bubble intact. I can see that now that these are skills I’ve learnt to protect myself. I’ve a narcissistic parent so running rings became… important. Honestly, I wouldn’t have known a boundary in a police line-up of boundaries.
With Kate, I can heal and engage without the ‘what, why, how, where’ of my whole life (a lot of which I just don’t remember), because I can now experience my emotions without the narrative, and experiencing my emotions in a safe environment is the healing.
As is being able to take my emotional self out into the world and know I (and others) will survive. And then more than survive…”
Find Your Strength
Set Yourself Free
Be Empowered
Be Yourself Again
I support adults who are recovering from:
Narcissistic abuse in relationships, families, friends or workplaces
Coercive control and psychological manipulation
Chronic stress, C‑PTSD or emotional overwhelm that hasn’t shifted with talk therapy
Feeling “stuck” years later, even when life on the outside looks okay
Whether you’re still in contact, newly out, or quietly unravelling what happened years later — it’s not too late, and you’re not too much.
“From the very first session, Kate created a safe and nurturing environment, where I felt truly heard and understood. She not only helped me navigate through my pain but also equipped me with practical tools to manage the intense emotions that dominated my life. Her insights into trauma were profound, and her approach was gentle yet incredibly effective. Week by week, she helped me reconnect with my strength and resilience, something I had lost sight of in my darkest moments. Kate’s therapeutic techniques, combined with her empathetic nature, allowed me to face my past and present challenges with newfound courage.”
“From the very first session, Kate created a safe and nurturing environment, where I felt truly heard and understood. She not only helped me navigate through my pain but also equipped me with practical tools to manage the intense emotions that dominated my life. Her insights into trauma were profound, and her approach was gentle yet incredibly effective.” A Taylor
“To be honest, when Kate asked me what I hoped to get out of our sessions together, I felt sceptical that I would achieve my aim of feeling more positive about the difficulties I had encountered. However after just one session I started to feel better, and by the penultimate session I felt like I had completely resolved my issue..”
TRE® Trauma Release
In many cultures around the world it is innately known that movement is medicine.
TRE® the Trauma Release Exercises programme is accessible to all, simple and easy to learn.
The process of physical and psychological transformation the process brings is often astonishing and life changing.
In the UK 32% of people use exercise to overcome overwhelm and stress. TRE® is natural and organic. It is easy to learn and helps us let go of old patterns of tension and neurophysiological trigger responses.
Heart Assisted Therapies
The heart is a multifaceted power organ that governs our physical, energetic and emotional wellbeing. It might be considered a master conductor of our frequency resonance, tuning us into life force energy.
The heart field is x50 stronger, with more neurons than the brain, and it creates its own vibrational signature before the brain is created.
Heart Assisted Therapies are simple, gentle processes with prestigious lineage that work with the energy of the brain, breath and heart.
Integrated Psychology and Energy Medicine
Integrated Energy Psychology Techniques (EP) are a science led, cutting edge field expanding the boundaries of traditional therapy models.
Energy Medicine is profound and ancient wisdom updated for the modern age
EP (you may have heard of EFT tapping which is part of this family) offers us both mainstream skills and remarkable new discoveries. This ever growing field blends ancient and modern neurophysiological knowledge for health and well-being.
Covert Emotional Abuse Recovery
The effects of covert abuse can devastate the sense of self, well-being and often result in depression, chronic illness and post-traumatic stress symptoms.
In 2023, there were 43,774 recorded offenses of coercive control in the UK. This type of domestic abuse can involve humiliation, financial control and isolation.
My approach to abuse recovery is both psychological, emotional and physical to restore heart, body and mind