Looking for a different, a more modern and compassionate approach to therapy?
Are you over 18 years old and experiencing any of the following:
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Have you experienced a trauma or PTSD symptoms?
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Are you experiencing any flashbacks, mood swings or chronic stress, anxious or depressed?
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Feeling disassociated, numb or avoidant?
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Are feeling fearful, hypervigilant, or extreme emotions including anger, shame, guilt or embarrassment, regret?
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Had any Adverse Childhood Experiences ACE’s / Childhood traumas?
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Physical, Mental, Emotional or Sexual abuse or have been bullied?
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Are you feeling stuck/trapped, overwhelmed or out of control?
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Have you lost a loved one, feel stuck in a grief even long after the event?
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Suffering with insomnia, sleep issues?
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Relationship related: experience of an attachment injury, abusive, coercive control, narcissistic traits or narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). Or going through a separation or divorce?
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Have OCD, intrusive thoughts, fearful/anxious feelings or repeated patterns of behaviours?
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Have Health Anxiety, phobias or fears of Death or Dying?
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Have you experienced a traumatic labour/birth, baby loss, miscarriage or have fertility issues?
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Have you had suicidal thoughts, suicide attempts or self-harmed?
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Have low self-esteem, low self-worth, or confidence issues?
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NEW! Certified Trauma Informed Clinical Supervision available for professional Counsellors, Hypnotherapists, integrative therapists or coaches. Approved status with The National Hypnotherapy Society.
Create change by using the power of your own mind….
I am an Integrative Trauma Therapist and use a modern progressive approach to treatment involves selecting the most appropriate therapeutic techniques or modalities, which are best suited to the client’s particular issues. As each therapy has a boundary of effectiveness and by tailoring the therapy to the individual, it is in my opinion faster and often produces a deeper more permanent changes than traditional therapy. It is never too late, so many problems can be resolved once you are committed to make a change.
I offer a professional, confidential, compassionate and supportive private mental health service for Adults over 18 years old. I can work either online or at my private clinic is based near Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, which provides a spacious and comfortable setting, in a safe and non-judgemental environment. I aim to empower my clients by building on their own strengths and internal resources to grow more resilience for life’s challenges. Additionally, I transfer my knowledge and understanding of the mind-body, also provide self help sheets with useful tips, tools and techniques. By skilling you up and helping you to create a virtual toolbox, that with time can improve your emotional and physical wellbeing and growing resilience for everyday life.
Likely outcomes from working with me:
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Understand your survival system and the mind-body connection
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Create helpful habits with the tools and techniques to regulate your nervous system
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Naturally stimulate the vagus nerve to reconnect with your body
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Feel more grounded in the present moment
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Release trauma, distressing emotions, unresolved patterns of fight, flight, freeze, faint, fawn
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Widen your ability to tolerate, lower or remove emotional discomfort
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Develop a felt sense of resilience
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Anchor yourself with self-compassion and understanding
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Create personalized embodiment practices for self-care.
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Post Traumatic Growth.
Please do Contact Me by email for further information or to book an initial FREE 20-30 minutes no obligation consultation. NB. I only work with adults over 18 years old.
In 2014, I became fascinated by the neuroscience and neurobiology of trauma, how adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) like abuse or neglect changes the landscape of the brain. Which increases the risks for mental and or physical illness, disease later in life. It can also be through what you didn’t receive, an absence of a parent during your childhood at key moments or prolonged exposure which can create attachment disorders. Relational trauma creates emotional wounds that still cause challenges in our day-to-day interactions and intimate relationships. Some common examples are: a lack of validation, not being seen or heard, our needs not being met, not being helped to feel safe and secure, our boundaries not being respected, overly critical parenting, not being allowed a voice, not being given a choice and parents/caregivers not showing up to activities or events.
The identity becomes structured in complex layers of self reinforcing thought patterns, based on the deep underlying emotional pain and torment. These structures give us our sense of self and become the inner critic, that voice that constantly tells us we are unworthy, unloveable and there is something wrong with us is a common experience. Then develops over time into adulthood, which create issues with low self esteem, self worth and confidence issues.
Contrary to popular belief, trauma is much more common and comes in many shapes, forms and sizes. Dr Ronald Ruden’s ground breaking work (author of ‘When the Past is Always Present’ 2010) provides a scientific understanding of trauma, which is a different memory process and the memory is stuck in place with a sticky substance and cannot be updated unlike our normal memory function. So we cannot ‘just get a grip and get over it’ but with more modern neuroscience based healing modalities, we can de-link to remove the distress using Havening Techniques, or create a preferred response using BWRT.
“Trauma is a psychic wound that hardens you psychologically that then interferes with your ability to grow and develop. It pains you and now you’re acting out of pain. It induces fear and now you’re acting out of fear. Trauma is not what happens to you, it’s what happens inside you as a result of what happened to you.” Dr Gabor Maté
There are different types of trauma acute, chronic and complex. Trauma isn’t what happens to you, but how you respond to the situation, which can be both experienced or witnessed or even from a story told or from films, books etc. Acute trauma stems from a single dangerous or stressful experience. Chronic trauma develops through exposure to multiple stressful events or situations. Complex trauma describes both children’s or adult’s exposure to multiple traumatic events as well as any long-term effects of this exposure.
Long after the distressing event has passed, the nervous system can still remember a traumatic memory, which is like an open wound that hasn’t been allowed to heal. That can leave people in a more vulnerable state for years, feeling hypervigilant, anxious, stressed, depressed, dissociative or numb. With increased emotional distress for example acute feeling of shame, guilt, angry, rage, regret, overwhelmed, panic, fearful etc.
With new advances in neuroscience and psychosensory treatments, we now have the ability to release the distress of traumatic memories. Unlike older traditional techniques like counselling, CBT and Mindfulness which often struggles to release the roots of the deep-seated emotional distress and the somatic body’s responses including the autonomic nervous system.
“Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health; connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying lives.” Bessel van der Kolk
Being trauma informed I believe is essential to effectively work with the mind and the body’s connection. The Polyvagal theory by Dr Stephen Porges defines the way that the Vagus Nerve reacts to the experiences and its role in safety as the Autonomic Nervous System regulates the responses. This has helped us to better understand the connection between stress, trauma, and our health. The vagus nerve can be thought of as a bi-directional information highway that communicates between the mind and body. Imbalances in the vagus nerve and physiology of the autonomic nervous system can lead to feelings of overwhelm, anxiety, depression, or dissociation. Stimulating the vagus nerve helps to regulate both sympathetic hyper-arousal and parasympathetic hypo-arousal.
“Trauma is perhaps the most avoided, ignored, belittled, denied, misunderstood, and under treated cause of human suffering.” Peter Levine
What Is a Trauma-Informed Therapist?
A trauma-informed therapist’s approach understands the adverse impacts of trauma, life experiences and distressing memories. I have a number of effective trauma treatments for recovery. We can more easily recognise the signs and symptoms and use a compassionate approach, which minimises re-traumatisation. It also helps prioritise treatment, as trauma can keep you stuck or trapped in the past no matter how old it is.
The priority for trauma recovery is to re-establish feelings of safety first and to grow more stability throughout the following sessions. If you have found traditional mental health services have not helped you, it may indicate that your issues have a basis in trauma or Adverse Childhood Experiences.
Introducing two modern neuroscience based therapies, they both work with how the brain actually functions working on the psychological processes.
Havening Techniques® and BWRT® have both revolutionised my practice. As we all have Neuroplasticity which is the brain’s own ability to learn, change and adapt. Through Neuroplasticity, the brain is consistently rewiring itself and modifying its connections. It can reorganize itself both in structure and how it functions. Without neuroplasticity, we wouldn’t be able to do many of the things that make us human. This includes learning, developing, and forming memories.
“Trauma is not what happens to you, it’s what happens inside you as a result of what happened to you.” Dr Gabor Maté
Trauma Informed Integrative Therapist and Clinical Supervisor with Hypnotherapy, Counselling, Havening Techniques, BrainWorking Recursive Therapy, Trauma Specialist in Princes Risborough area, South Buckinghamshire and South Oxfordshire.
In my experience these newer therapies achieves a quicker and more rapid, permanent result for the client and sometimes even within one session, helping the client to achieve a better and happier life. Being relatively new therapies developed in the last 20 years, there is a growing number of research white papers, clinical evidence. However, from the data we have already collected, both of these wonderful techniques will be here for a very long time to come.
Over the last decade or so, there has been an amazing growth of clinical research studies and the results have increased and underpinned our understanding of Neuroscience and neurobiology, particularly of trauma and the mind-body connection (Flight, Fight, Freeze survival mechanisms). These newer therapies do not rely on growing just your cognitive understanding to change emotional responses or behaviours, or even in some cases changes your belief.
I work flexibly, so it is entirely up to you how long we work together and the frequency between sessions, as there are no fixed number its based on when you feel better. Usually you can expect a minimum of three, however it can longer if it is more complex.
“Our brains continually form maps of the world, maps of what is safe and what is dangerous.” Dr. Bessel van der Kolk
Sarah Brambleby, Dip Hyp CS, Dip CS, Ad. Dip CP. Accredited Bodies: MHS (Accred), MNCS (Accred).
ABOUT ME
My name is Sarah Brambleby and I am a experienced and fully insured Integrative Trauma and Anxiety Specialist, Accredited Hypnotherapist, Accredited Psychotherapeutic Counsellor, Certified Havening Techniques® Practitioner, BWRT® Certified Practitioner, Certified Clinical Trauma Professional and Certified Trauma Informed Clinical Supervisor. I am also Autism and ADHD informed. I am registered with the AVR – Accredited Voluntary Register and a member of several accredited bodies. I am trained in the latest advances in psychology, psychotherapy and psycho-sensory techniques that work with all the senses, the mind and body. I work with a wide range of issues but especially with anxiety in all its forms, depression, stress, complex trauma, c-PTSD, confidence, IBS, OCD, disassociation and sleep difficulties.
I use an integration of techniques to tailor treatment to the individual client’s issues and their goals for therapy. The integrative therapeutic approach will consist of Counselling, Hypnotherapy, (including hypno-analysis and regression) Havening Techniques®, BWRT®, CBT, EFT, Mindfulness, Parts therapy and Coaching.
I provide an international online service using Zoom or WhatsApp (NB. exceptions to some countries local laws prohibited my type of service). My clinic is centrally based in the heart of the Chilterns called Therapy Re-Imagined Clinic, there is free parking. The clinic is situated in Longwick just outside of Princes Risborough and conveniently near Thame, Chinnor, Aylesbury and High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire on the borders of Oxfordshire.
Opening Hours by appointment only:
Monday and Thursday 11am – 8pm
Tuesday and Wednesday 10am – 6pm.
Clinic is closed on UK bank holidays, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Please see my testimonials page, the testimonials are genuine and the originals are keep on file for authentication purposes. Names are be withheld to maintain Client confidentiality.
Fees
Please see my Fees page for more information. Full initial consultation, assessment and first therapy session will be offered at a discount of £120 for 2 hours to allow time for a thorough intake and consultation. Following sessions are £90 for 1 hour. (NB. Fees stated for 2026 and are subject to change).
NB. Concession rate £75 is available on request for hardship circumstances for example students or pensioners.
Single issue session for 2.5 hours discounted at £180.
Clients are required to pay in advance to secure their booking by Credit/Debit cards (Refunds are available in line with the 48 hour cancellation notice policy). Corporate clients are welcome.
Issues:
Abuse / Addiction / Adoption / Anger / Anxiety Disorders / Ashamed / Attachment injury / Baby Loss / Bereavement / Birth Trauma / Cancer Support / Child Bereavement / Coaching / Complex Trauma & C-PTSD / Confidence / Death and Dying / Depression / Depersonalisation, Derealisation, Disassociation / Emotional Regulation / Fears / Fertility Issues / Free Floating Anxiety / GAD / Grief & Loss / Growing Resilience Training / Habits / Health Anxiety / HSP – Highly Sensitive Person / IBS / Infertility / Insecurity / Insomnia / Intrusive Thoughts / Low Self Esteem, Self Worth / Mindfulness / Miscarriage / Motivation / Narcissism or Narcissistic Abuse / OCD & Pure O / Pain as a result of trauma / Panic Attacks / Performance Anxiety / People Pleaser / Phobias / Procrastination / PTSD / Rape / Relationship Issues / Relaxation / Sexual Abuse / Trauma related Sexual Difficulties / Shame / Skin picking / Sleep issues/ Social Anxiety / Stress Management / Suicide or Suicidal Thoughts / Trauma / Traumatic Grief or Loss / Trust issues / Wellness & Longevity.
Please Note – that it may be necessary to contact your GP or medical consultant, to get their agreement before we start work together for any physical conditions, pain control, sleep issues etc. The psychological processes that are sometimes the cause of physical conditions like IBS, talking therapies can greatly reduce or even alleviate the resultant anxiety and discomfort.
Contact Sarah by email sarah@sarahbrambleby.com for a FREE no-obligation initial consultation for 20-30 minutes by phone call or Zoom only.
Safe Practice
- Registered with AVR
- Accredited member with National Hypnotherapy Society (MHS)
- Accredited member with National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS)
- TQUK Level 3 Award in Emergency First Aid at Work (RQF) renewed every 3 years
- Fully Insured
- Regular Continual Professional Development to keep up to date with best practice and increase my range of skills. See About page for more information.
National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS)
The National Hypnotherapy Society
