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AJ Therapy UK We all have times in our lives when we feel unable to cope and day to day life is just too much.

* Professional counselling for anxiety, stress, grief, depression, self-esteem and life changes
* Integrative person-centred therapy tailored to your individual needs
📞Free Introductory call available
📍In-person Essex | online UK Sometimes we know exactly why we feel like this and want some support while we work through it, but other times we may need extra help to work out what's going on for us. I offer a safe, warm and accepting space where we can explore these issues at a pace that suits you. We will work together to help you gain perspective, understanding and work towards any goals, until you feel equipped and able to move forward on your own. Whatever situation you find yourself in, I will be here to work with you confidentially and respectfully. I know how hard it is to take the first step and reach out for help, so if you've read this far, please feel free to contact me for an informal chat and to see if therapy is the way forward for you.

12/10/2026

Sometimes it’s not the conversation itself that stays with us.

It’s everything that comes afterwards.

Replaying what was said. Wondering whether we misunderstood. Questioning whether our feelings were reasonable, or whether we should have handled things differently.

Relationships can be complicated, particularly when we’ve become used to prioritising other people’s feelings over our own.

Over time, we can begin to lose confidence in our needs, boundaries and judgment.

Counselling offers a space to explore these patterns without judgement.

Not necessarily to change the people around us, but to better understand ourselves, recognise what we need and begin building trust in our own experiences.

If relationships are leaving you feeling anxious, overwhelmed or unsure of yourself, counselling might be a helpful place to begin 🤍

One of the things that can make starting therapy feel intimidating is the idea that you need to know what to say.You rea...
09/10/2026

One of the things that can make starting therapy feel intimidating is the idea that you need to know what to say.

You really don’t.

Some people arrive knowing exactly what they want to explore. Others simply know they’re struggling or life just doesn’t feel quite right.

Part of therapy can be making sense of that together.

There’s no perfect starting point - and you don’t need to have your story neatly organised.

We start where you are 🤍

You don’t need a dramatic reason to come to therapy.People sometimes worry that what they’re struggling with isn’t “bad ...
07/10/2026

You don’t need a dramatic reason to come to therapy.

People sometimes worry that what they’re struggling with isn’t “bad enough” for therapy.

There may not have been one huge event.

Nothing might be obviously wrong.

You may even find yourself thinking “other people have it worse”

But therapy isn’t a competition for who is struggling most.

Maybe you’re tired of overthinking everything.

Maybe your confidence has disappeared somewhere along the way.

Maybe you keep putting everyone else first.

Maybe you feel stuck, overwhelmed, anxious or simply less like yourself than you used to.

You don’t need to justify wanting things to feel different.

Sometimes “I’d like some help with this” is enough.

05/10/2026

Sometimes struggling doesn’t look like everything falling apart.

You might still be going to work, replying to messages, looking after other people and doing everything that needs to be done.

From the outside, things can look manageable.
But internally, you might feel anxious, overwhelmed, exhausted or disconnected from yourself - or simply aware you don’t feel like ‘you’ anymore.

Therapy doesn’t have to begin at breaking point.

Sometimes it starts with noticing:

“I’m managing…but I don’t want to keep feeling like this.”

And that’s enough of a reason to begin 🤍

When our heads are holding several unfinished things at once, it can be difficult to tell the difference between importa...
02/10/2026

When our heads are holding several unfinished things at once, it can be difficult to tell the difference between important and urgent.

Everything starts shouting at the same volume.

Sometime reducing that mental load isn’t about becoming more productive. It’s about giving yourself permission to decide : this needs me now, this can wait and I don’t have to decide that one yet.

You can care about something without attending to it immediately.

“I’ll relax once I’ve finished everything”It sounds reasonable enough doesn’t it?Once the jobs are done.Once the message...
30/09/2026

“I’ll relax once I’ve finished everything”

It sounds reasonable enough doesn’t it?

Once the jobs are done.
Once the messages are answered
Once that thing you’ve been meaning to sort is finally dealt with.

Then you’ll rest.

Except theres nearly always something else.

Rest doesn’t need to be the reward you earn when everything else is finished. It’s actually the part of what allows you to come back to those things with a little more capacity.

You are allowed to stop while there are still things on your to-do list 🤍

28/09/2026

Sometimes unfinished things don’t sit quietly in the background.

They stay there, gently (or not so gently) asking for our attention.
When there are several of them it can feel like everything needs dealing with NOW.

Sometimes we respond by trying to finish everything, hoping that once it’s all done we can finally relax.

But life rarely gives us an empty to-do list.

It can help to give unfinished things somewhere to sit and wait - a list, a plan, a time set aside to return to them - so that your brain doesn’t have to hold onto them so tightly.

The goal isn’t to stop caring about what needs doing. It’s recognising that not everything that feels urgent needs your attention right now.

Sometimes, knowing “I haven’t forgotten. It’s accounted for. I am coming back to it.” is enough to quieten the noise a little 🍁

20/09/2026

We often associate grief with clear endings.

But some of the things we grieve don’t have one.

A relationship can change without ending. A stage of life can pass almost unnoticed. We can miss who someone used to be, who we were with them, or a future we once imagined.

These quieter endings can be difficult to understand because there isn’t always a clear moment we’re supposed to grieve.

But a loss doesn’t have to be final to be felt.

Change often comes with a lot of pressure to “move on”, start again or become a new version of ourselves.But perhaps it ...
18/09/2026

Change often comes with a lot of pressure to “move on”, start again or become a new version of ourselves.

But perhaps it doesn’t have to be quite so dramatic.

We can carry forward what matters. We can keep what we’ve learned. We can recognise what no longer fits.

And sometimes we’re still figuring out which is which.

These are a few gentle questions to sit with if you’re somewhere between what was and what comes next.

Sometimes the hardest part of change isn’t the ending or the new beginning…It’s the bit in between.When something doesn’...
16/09/2026

Sometimes the hardest part of change isn’t the ending or the new beginning…It’s the bit in between.

When something doesn’t feel the way it used to, but you’re not quite sure what comes next.

You might have outgrown a relationship, a role, a way of coping, a version of yourself — or simply know that something needs to change without knowing what that change should look like yet.

That in-between space can feel uncomfortable.

We often want to rush through it. To make a decision, find the answer, draw a line under things and know where we’re going next.

But sometimes we don’t need to know yet.
Sometimes the work is learning to sit with the uncertainty for a while, noticing what no longer fits and giving ourselves enough space to discover what might.

You’re allowed to be a work in progress 🤍

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