Sarah Taylor

My working arrangements are as follows:

Mondays and Wednesdays I offer online sessions.

Tuesdays and Thursday face to face sessions in Nottingham city centre.

All my evening slots are currently occupied. 

Take a moment before you continue scrolling.

Pause, take a breath, and gently ask yourself: 鈥淲hat do I need right now?鈥�

You may be looking for support with:

Anxiety

Depression

Confusion or feeling overwhelmed

Questioning your identity

Heartbreak or relationship difficulties

Grief and loss

Coming to terms with a health diagnosis such as cancer or MS

Low self-esteem or confidence

Feeling stuck or unsure about the future

If any of this resonates with you, you do not have to face it alone.

I offer a warm, supportive space where you can speak openly and be truly heard. As a therapist, I listen carefully and without judgement, helping you explore your thoughts and feelings and what it means to be authentically you.

The therapy I offer is reflective and explorative. At times it may feel challenging, but it is always grounded in care, compassion and respect. Together we will work with curiosity and kindness to understand your experiences and what has shaped you.

Through therapy, you may begin to:

Develop new and healthier habits

Let go of patterns that no longer serve you

Process trauma and difficult experiences

Build an 鈥渆motional first aid kit鈥� of coping strategies

Strengthen emotional regulation

Grow in confidence and self-understanding

Reaching out for support can take courage. By reading this profile, you have already taken the first step.

If you feel we might work well together, please get in touch to arrange a free initial telephone consultation.

I also offer concessionary rates for trainee counsellors and university students.

Emotions and life circumstances are rarely static, and at times they can feel overwhelming or difficult to manage. Counselling offers a space to pause, reflect and make sense of what you are experiencing.

As your counsellor, I will work alongside you to explore the challenges you are facing and help you find ways to improve your wellbeing and quality of life. Together we can develop greater understanding of your thoughts, feelings and patterns, and identify changes that feel meaningful and achievable for you.

I understand that trusting a stranger with personal thoughts and feelings can feel daunting. I aim to provide a safe, confidential and non-judgemental space where you feel heard and supported. I will be there consistently, offering impartial support as you work towards greater clarity, resilience and improved mental health.

Our first session is an initial consultation where we go through the counselling contract together and start building a rapport.

I ask a series of questions to build up a picture of what it is like to be you. 

An explanation of how I work is offered and then we schedule our sessions, which tend to be at the same time and day each week.

This initial consultation starts with thirty to forty minutes online or over the telephone and is offered free of charge.

Supervision is offered Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at a mutually agreeable time.

Group supervision can be arranged if you have a group of three or four.

I offer face to face and online supervision.

Integrative, humanistic, relational, creative, and intuitive describe my supervision style.

My supervisees are provided a space where they can be themselves with the freedom to explore where the work takes them knowing they will be supported and not judged.

For supervision I opted to first do a creative and passionate supervision diploma and then naturally moved to the Seven Eyed Model created by Peter Hawkins and Robin Shohet. This model affords me so much scope to help supervisees. For instance by paying attention to the client, wondering about the strategies and interventions used, looking at the relationship between client and supervisee, acknowledging how the supervisee is consciously and unconsciously affected by the work, seeing what emerges from the supervisory relationship, being curious about the supervisor鈥檚 own process and examining what exists in the wider context for the client.

Supervisees are expected to attend monthly supervision sessions of usually at least one and half hours. 

Currently sessions are offered face to face and online using Zoom.

As a supervisor I use the here and now responses in supervision sessions to inform what might be happening in the therapy offered by the supervisee.

My aim is to help the supervisee to pay attention to the client, wonder about the choices they make and identify the connections between various aspects of the client鈥檚 life. Experience has taught me that by paying attention to the felt sense of the client far more information can be gathered than purely focussing on the narrative they offer.

Helping supervisees step out of their own perspective to gain greater insight and understanding of the therapeutic relationship is paramount and with this challenge is usually offered. I view challenge as a two-way exchange. I am open to being challenged by supervisees as well as giving challenges. I believe that through challenge we extend our knowledge and deepen our capacity to be with clients.

Listening attentively, respecting the work presented and allowing the supervisee's voice to confidently develop are the features you can expect from supervision with me. 

An hour long initial meeting via Zoom is recommended and this is offered free of charge.

During this time we will discuss the supervisee's expectations and needs and I will explain further how I work.