Sarah Stewart

Sarah Stewart is a fully qualified Person-Centred & Experiential therapist working with Holding Space Counselling and Psychotherapy. She offers a welcoming therapeutic space where people can feel understood and valued without fear of judgement or criticism.

Sarah emphasises a warm, non-judgmental and genuine therapeutic connection that places each person and their experience at the centre of the work. Her person-centred and experiential training supports clients to explore difficult experiences, work through parts of themselves they feel unhappy with, and move toward their potential. Rather than telling clients what to do, she focuses on helping them find answers within themselves through an accepting, collaborative approach that can include tentative challenges and occasional input from psychoeducation or psychology.

Exploring inner conflict and the different voices or selves people carry inside is a key element of her practice. Her education within Psychology and Psychotherapy gives her the background to help clients examine emotions and experiences, and to understand how physiology, development and behaviour can influence mental health. Therapy is framed as a tool for change and self-connection, and Sarah welcomes people who want to change their life or deepen self-understanding.

She currently works online via video, audio and messaging, offering live messaging sessions rather than unstructured messaging in place of therapy. Her profile lists specialties including stress, anxiety, relationship and family issues, depression, coping with life changes, LGBT matters, trauma and abuse, eating concerns, anger, self-esteem, compassion fatigue, and working as a female therapist; it also notes gay, non-religious and liberal as aspects of her practice presentation. Sarah has 4 years of experience and is based in the United Kingdom.