HELENA SOREL is a clinical psychologist specialising in trauma, working at the intersection of EMDR1, body-based therapy and long-term relational work. Her practice is for adults living with the after-effects of a single overwhelming event, or of years that never quite felt safe: anxiety that arrives without warning, sleep that will not settle, a body that stays braced long after the danger has passed.
Sessions move at the pace your nervous system2 can hold. There is no requirement to tell the whole story, and no expectation that you arrive ready. The first task is simple and slow: to make the room, and the relationship, a place where something different can happen.
1 Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, a structured trauma therapy recommended by the World Health Organization for post-traumatic stress.
2 Much of trauma work is learning to notice when the body is on alert, and to bring it back to a state where thinking and feeling are possible.
