Angela Gallagher

I'm a warm, down to earth therapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner who specialises in supporting women still feeling the effects of childhood trauma.  If you're constantly managing the effects of your past without success - whether that's presenting as dysregulating emotions, always being '0n',  feeling checked out, negative view of self, chronic health conditions, medically unexplained symptoms, feeling unsafe in your own body or struggling to find and maintain healthy relationships then I’ve got you. Through therapy, you finally feel more stable, settled and empowered in yourself, so you can stop being constantly ruled by your past and start living the life you actually want. The life you deserve.

I spent years in the NHS as an Occupational Therapist and Clinical Lead specialising in neurology and neuropsychiatry - literally working with how nervous systems potentially heal; cognitively, emotionally and physically. My different roles included helping people process the impact life changing  events had on their sense of self and role in relation to loved ones/family dynamics and the wider society.  These skills, knowledge and experience provides me with  a robust understanding of the nervous system, neuroplasticity (brain's ability to reorganise itself by forming new neural connections throughout life in response to experiences, learning, or after injury) and how to hold space for the emotions of others.

Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), developed by Dr Peter Levine, SE recognises the need for grounding and becoming physiologically aware that you are safe in the present before processing difficult material. My integrative approach helps regulate your nervous system slowly and gently for sustainable shifts. Having walked this path personally and professionally for a number of years, I can tell you change is possible and you don't have to do it alone. Healing happens in connection, not in isolation.