I started with Josephine due to me finding out my partner had cheated on me. This situation lead to feelings of anxiety, stress, loneliness and me feeling like I had no self worth. Having been through counselling before, my expectations weren’t too great as previously I hadn’t felt 100% comfortable with the person I was speaking to. Upon speaking to Josephine she immediately made me feel valued and like my voice and opinions mattered, which was something I was truly lacking at that time. I also felt immediately at ease and found myself laughing for the first time in weeks.
Josephine gave me time to discuss the situation, my thoughts and feelings and then helped me take a step back and gain some perspective, while also giving me a safe space to voice my thoughts and opinions. This perspective and space allowed me to really understand how I was feeling, what was driving it and meant we could start to work on solutions. Fast forward a few months and my relationship is actually better than it was previously, I can trust again (even if not 100% yet) and I know my worth.
Josephine keeps it real. She listens, understands, sees all sides of the argument and has the most infectious personality. She has re-energised my thoughts on counselling and should I need to go back through this process in the future, she’s the only person I will go to.

Thanks for all your time, understanding and patience over the past few months. Don’t ever stop doing what you do.

I have been working with Josephine for just over 2 years following a crisis in my life.

My expectations at the start of receiving therapy from Josephine are nothing to the actual reality or experience I have (or am still!) receiving. I thought I was going to be given the answers to help solve my problems, with a somewhat clinical perspective on my life and issues. This is nothing like what my experience is. We have worked (and still are) through a number of issues; including race, identity, work stresses family relationships and personal relationships.

What I feel with Josephine is listened to, heard, and seen – something that I don’t (or didn’t) have with anyone else in my life. The sessions are my space and time to dive into some dark issues, problems and challenges.  They are often challenging, and I have been to some low places in our work together. However, I feel supported, encouraged, and offered a different perspective on some negative habitual thoughts I had formed. This has not been easy, but when you have support, guidance and meaningful conversations that really help you take a look at things differently I believe you can really start to make a difference in your life. This is what Josephine helps to harness and is exceptional at.

It’s actually difficult to put into words to describe how much work we have been doing together has helped. For the first time in my life, I’m able to start to make sense of issues that have had a negative impact on me. The inner self-worth that I am harnessing is something that I have never experienced before, the confidence to ‘speak up’ to ‘call out’ and to tackle things constructively, positively, and calmly that I would in the past, shy or hide away from, has all come out of the work with Josephine.

 I’m feel like a completely different person from the one I was before starting therapy with Josephine. Our work has allowed me to make sense of some dark, complex, hurtful issues that have haunted me throughout my adult life.

The work we have been doing together is allowing me to let go of the past, to accept what has happened, and move into a better place. It is allowing me to heal – and for this I am truly grateful for. Of course this work is ongoing for as long as I want it to be, but what journey it is and I’m so pleased to have found Josephine to join it with me.

It’s been incredible. I’ve learnt so much about myself, why thoughts and feelings have come along when they have. How I can better deal with these issues but more over, how incredibly easy Josephine made our time, protected and a place to speak freely. She allowed me time to process thoughts and feelings, whilst still making each session worthwhile!

These sessions offered by yourselves have taken me from an incredibly dark place in my life, to one of positivity and strength.

Please continue these sessions, because I honestly mean this, I don’t know where I’d be right now if they were not available.

It is with huge thanks to Josephine that I can say, I may not fully heal physically but mentally I’m more prepared to be a first time dad, than I was at the very start of our time together.

I was really struggling to switch off from work and there was no such thing as a work, life balance happening. I was not even aware of how low I felt – I was not functioning well on any level. I decided to call the employee assistance scheme and following a useful conversation they recommended that I have some counselling. It was such a relief to have someone agree that I needed some support. The scheme introduced me to Josephine. I felt completely comfortable chatting with Josephine from our first session. Over the weeks we discussed a wide range of aspects of my work life and more, and I found it incredibly helpful that I could leave the session with something to think through in a different way and something practical to try. I benefited from the fact that Josephine quickly realised the type of language that had a positive impact on me as well as recognising the things that truly matter to me each day. I came away from the experience with a useful tool kit to use as needed, as well as the knowledge that I’m not too far off track. I would recommend Josephine as someone who gave me her professional support but most of all as someone who genuinely took the time to understand me, where I was at and where I want to go. I’m very grateful for her support and expertise.

I found Josephine through the EAP service offered by my previous workplace after suffering over 8 years of sexual harassment. I felt Josephine understood my situation and had knowledge on how women are viewed in society, which helped validate my feelings after work persistently dismissed them. It was fundamental to have a safe space to feel heard whilst fighting this case as the experience was very lonely and work often made me feel like I was in the wrong for speaking up. We also talked about childhood and she helped me understand how I’d found myself in a pattern of being subjected to abuse. In the end I lost the case, one of the perpetrators got promoted to become a lecturer and I was left feeling I had no choice but to leave my job. However, there is a silver lining, I now work for a woman’s charity, supporting women who are in difficult situations due to male perpetrators and I am in a much better place. Even though fighting harassment was one of the hardest things I’ve ever gone through, with Josephine’s support, I found my purpose and a reason to keep going. I’m learning to stand up for myself and after processing a lot of uncomfortable feelings and doing some hard internal work, I can finally say for the first time in my life, I am free from abuse.

When I met Josephine, I wasn’t sure about the cause of my constant frustration and anxiety and in my mind I was only unhappy in certain situations. Josephine has changed everything, she made me see the situation from outside and realise what was wrong and what I needed to focus on so I go back to my old self. I am tremendously grateful to her for letting me open up the can of worms that I have been hiding for years. She is very patient, honest and so nice to talk to that I felt like she was part of my family throughout the whole therapy. I could see an improvement in the way I felt about things after each session. It wasn’t just a therapy for me, it was something that I was looking forward to every week.