I offer specialised therapy services to help adult children of emotionally unavailable parents navigate their unique challenges and foster personal growth. My approach is grounded in Schema Therapy, which is tailored to address the deep-rooted issues stemming from childhood and to meet core emotional needs.
Individual Therapy Sessions
I provide one-on-one therapy sessions focused on helping you understand and overcome the impact of growing up with emotionally unavailable parents. Each session is designed to address your specific concerns and goals, providing you with personalized support and strategies for healing and growth.
Understanding the Challenges
Adult children of emotionally unavailable parents often face a variety of challenges, including:
• Difficulty Forming and Maintaining Relationships: Struggles with intimacy, trust, and setting boundaries.
• Low Self-Esteem and Self-Worth: Persistent feelings of inadequacy or unworthiness.
• Emotional Dysregulation: Difficulty managing emotions, leading to anxiety, depression, or mood swings.
• Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms: These may include people-pleasing, avoidance, perfectionism, self-sabotage, emotional suppression, addictive behaviours, codependency, overachievement, negative self-talk, isolation, excessive caregiving, compulsive spending, and chronic anxiety or depression.
• People-Pleasing Behaviors: Overwhelming need for approval and fear of rejection.
• Identity Confusion: Struggling to understand one's own desires, goals, and values.
• Chronic Guilt and Shame: Persistent feelings of guilt or shame, often stemming from unmet parental expectations.