Empowering Change with The Hollow Tree Therapy
Rediscovering the Self
Therapeutic support for those feeling lost, stuck, disconnected, or unsure of who they are beneath the roles they have had to play.
This work is for you if you are:
• Struggling with identity after burnout, masking, or major life changes
• Feeling emotionally numb, directionless, or disconnected from your own needs
• Constantly adapting to others and unsure what you actually want
• Questioning your relationships, career path, or sense of purpose
• Ready to explore who you are beyond survival mode
Together, we gently uncover the patterns, beliefs, and coping mechanisms that may have kept you safe in the past, but now feel limiting. This process is not about fixing or rushing. It is about making space for what is true to emerge.
You do not need to have all the answers. You just need the willingness to begin.
These sessions are led by curiosity, compassion, and a steady commitment to helping you come home to yourself, with honesty, permission, and care.
Neurodiverse-Informed therapy
A supportive therapeutic space for autistic, ADHD, and other neurodivergent individuals.
These sessions are tailored to your unique ways of thinking, feeling, and processing - without any expectation to mask, conform or change who you are. We work together in a way that feels accessible, collaborative, and attuned to your needs.
As a neurodivergent practitioner myself, I understand how traditional approaches can feel overwhelming or disconnected. I combine lived experience with formal training in counselling, CBT, NLP, and neurodiversity awareness. My approach is flexible, affirming, and rooted in a deep respect for difference. I offer support with identity, burnout (at work or in your personal life), emotional regulation, sensory needs, building a more authentic life at a pace that works for you and much more.
Solution based counselling
For those seeking clarity, direction, and gentle movement forward.
These sessions are future-focused and practical, designed to help you explore what is working, what you want to change, and the small, manageable steps to get there. We focus on your strengths, your values, and your vision - not just your problems.
These sessions are ideal if you:
• Feel stuck in repetitive thoughts or situations
• Want to make changes but feel unsure where to start
• Are looking for structure, support, and accountability in a compassionate way
Together, we create a space where small shifts can lead to real transformation, without rushing, and without losing sight of your emotional. This is counselling that honours both your pace and your potential.
Mindful living
Practical support for managing overwhelm, regulating your nervous system, and reconnecting with your body, in ways that feel accessible, realistic, and rooted in daily life.
This is not about sitting still or trying to empty your mind. It is about building small, sustainable practices that help you slow down, come back to yourself, and meet the moment with more ease.
You might be:
• Struggling with sensory overload or emotional shutdown
• Feeling disconnected from your body or stuck in fight, flight, or freeze
• Longing for more calm, clarity, and gentleness in your day-to-day life
We work with grounding techniques, sensory awareness, breathwork, visualisation, and somatic tools, always tailored to what feels right and useful for you. This is about meeting yourself where you are and slowly building on that in your own rhythm.
Workplace workshops
Why Choose The Hollow Tree Therapy?
Because I understand this work from the inside out.
As a neurodivergent practitioner with a background in counselling, NLP, CBT, and neurodiversity support, I bring both clinical understanding and lived insight. I speak the language of systems, deadlines, rules and policies, but I also speak the language of burnout, masking, shutdowns, and overstimulation, because I have lived it, witnessed it, and helped others move through it.
My workshops have been delivered in NHS settings, schools, private companies and community organisations, and are consistently described as engaging, accessible, and genuinely transformative.
What people have said:
“This changed how I speak to my team, and how I see myself.”
“More powerful than any neurodiversity training we’ve had before.”
“Grace brought things into words I’ve never been able to explain. That alone made the session worth it.”
“I finally feel like our workplace understands what masking really is.”
“Warm, honest, and full of practical insight we could use straight away.”
I do this work because I believe every person, every team, deserves to be understood, not just managed. These workshops are a chance to pause, reflect, and reconnect with what truly supports wellbeing, inclusion, and the human beings behind the job titles.
If you are looking for something honest, meaningful, and built to last — I would love to work with you.
Creative and holistic tools for deeper processing
For some clients, talking therapy alone may not feel accessible, expressive, or effective.
I offer a range of flexible tools that support emotional regulation, deeper reflection, and nervous system awareness , especially for neurodivergent clients or those who benefit from more creative and embodied approaches.
Depending on your needs and preferences, sessions may include:
• Guided visualisation to access insight, calm, or reflective imagery
• Breathwork and grounding techniques to support emotional regulation
• Neurographica and creative expression to explore difficult thoughts or emotions
• Journaling prompts and sensory practices to deepen self-awareness between sessions
These approaches are always adapted sensitively. You do not need to be “creative” or experienced. The goal is to support you with what feels natural, safe, and effective for your way of processing.
Meet The Hollow Tree Therapy
Who do I work with?
Who do I work with?
Who do I work with?
Private Clients
I work with professionals who are holding it together on the outside but feel exhausted, disconnected, or out of place beneath the surface. Many of my clients are neurodivergent, often undiagnosed and have spent years masking or navigating environments that were never designed with them in mind. Others are highly sensitive,
Private Clients
I work with professionals who are holding it together on the outside but feel exhausted, disconnected, or out of place beneath the surface. Many of my clients are neurodivergent, often undiagnosed and have spent years masking or navigating environments that were never designed with them in mind. Others are highly sensitive, empathic, or simply burnt out from roles that demand too much. You might be working in healthcare, education, the creative industries, or business, wherever you are, you are likely someone who shows up for others, even when you are running on empty.
Corporate Support
Alongside 1:1 therapy, I offer bespoke wellbeing sessions and workshops for organisations wanting to support their staff more meaningfully. These include training around neurodiversity in the workplace, emotional wellbeing, and how to create environments that do not just meet legal standards, but actually feel safe and human. I also work directly with staff members who have recently been diagnosed with autism or ADHD, offering a blend of therapeutic and practical support as they adjust to understanding themselves in new ways.
My Story
Who do I work with?
Who do I work with?
My Journey: From Advocacy to Empowerment
I spent over 15 years working in safeguarding and crisis intervention, in schools, communities, hospitals, and public services, holding others through their most vulnerable moments. These roles demanded clarity, compassion, and the ability to make decisions under pressure.
Alongside this, I served a
My Journey: From Advocacy to Empowerment
I spent over 15 years working in safeguarding and crisis intervention, in schools, communities, hospitals, and public services, holding others through their most vulnerable moments. These roles demanded clarity, compassion, and the ability to make decisions under pressure.
Alongside this, I served as a Disability Officer for one of the trade unions within Lincolnshire Police and sat on the Lincolnshire Police Neurodiversity Board, pushing for more inclusive policies and challenging how organisations respond to difference.
I advocated for others.
I challenged systems.
And for a long time, I quietly masked my own.
Receiving an autism diagnosis as an adult gave everything new context. It explained the shutdowns, the emotional exhaustion, the sensory overload I had normalised. But more than that, it forced me to ask a different question:
What would it look like to stop surviving — and start living as myself?
Leaving the systems I had worked so hard to navigate was not a failure. It was a reclamation.
The Hollow Tree Therapy was born from that turning point. It is not a brand. It is a space I needed during my most vulnerable moments and could not find — so I built it.
I have delivered workshops, training, and talks across the UK — in NHS hospitals, schools, local authorities, and third sector organisations. My sessions focus on neurodiversity, emotional wellbeing, inclusive communication, and creating psychologically safer environments. Each workshop is tailored to the audience, grounded in lived experience, and designed to be practical, engaging, and impactful. Whether I am working with clinical teams, senior leadership, or frontline staff, I bring a balance of insight, clarity, and real-world strategies that people can apply straight away.
My work now brings together formal training in counselling, CBT, NLP, and neurodiversity, with the lived insight of someone who has sat on both sides of the support system. I understand burnout, masking, emotional overwhelm, and identity loss, not only because I have completed countless training, but because I have lived it. And I know what it takes to come back from it — because I did.
You do not need fixing.
You need space to think, feel, to figure things out without pressure.
The Hollow Tree Therapy is a space where time slows down, and you are met with care that is thoughtful, intentional and never rushed.
FAQs
Who do I work with?
FAQs
1. What happens in the first session?
The first session is a gentle introduction. We explore why you have come, what you hope to get out of therapy, and how I can support you. There is no pressure to dive deep, it is about finding comfort and safety first. I will also explain how I work and give you space to ask any questions.
2. Do you o
1. What happens in the first session?
The first session is a gentle introduction. We explore why you have come, what you hope to get out of therapy, and how I can support you. There is no pressure to dive deep, it is about finding comfort and safety first. I will also explain how I work and give you space to ask any questions.
2. Do you offer online sessions?
Yes. I offer both in-person and online sessions, depending on what feels most comfortable and accessible for you. You can switch between the two whenever needed.
3. I am neurodivergent and struggle in traditional settings. Will this space suit me?
Absolutely. As a neurodivergent practitioner, I understand the need for therapy that is flexible, sensory-aware, and affirming. There is no expectation for eye contact, sitting still, or masking. You are welcome as you are.
4. What is Solution-Based Counselling?
Solution-Based Counselling focuses on your strengths, goals, and the steps you can take forward, rather than staying stuck in what has gone wrong. It is a collaborative and empowering approach that helps you find practical shifts, even in deeply emotional situations.
5. How long is each session and how often will I need them?
Sessions are 50 minutes long. Frequency is flexible, some people come weekly, others fortnightly or monthly. We will work together to find a rhythm that supports your energy, budget, and needs.
6. What issues do you work with?
I work with anxiety, identity issues, neurodiversity, burnout, grief, emotional regulation, low self-worth, life transitions, and people who feel “too much” or “not enough.” Many of my clients are highly sensitive, creative, or feeling lost in their current life path.
7. Can I bring my own spiritual beliefs into sessions?
Yes. Whether you are deeply spiritual, curious, or unsure, your beliefs and inner world are welcome here. I am trained in both traditional counselling and holistic practices, and I honour whatever framework helps you make meaning of your experiences.
8. What if I do not know what I need help with?
That is completely okay. Many people arrive feeling confused, overwhelmed, or unsure where to start. We can explore that together, gently uncovering what is underneath and where you would like to move toward.
9. Are your sessions confidential?
Yes. Everything you share is confidential, except in rare cases where there is a risk of serious harm to you or others, I will always explain this clearly in our first session.
10. How do I book a session and what is your fee?
You can contact me directly via email or through the contact form on the website. My sessions are £65, I offer limited lower-cost ( -20%) spaces for those on low income and students. If you feel drawn to my sessions, but cannot afford the full rate, please reach out, we can talk about what is possible.