Stephanie Collins

About

I am a therapist for adults whose past is interfering with their present in ways they can describe exactly and cannot switch off. My clients are usually high-functioning, well-defended people who are quietly spending a lot of energy on management. Trauma does not require you to be visibly unwell in order to be worth treating. A large proportion of the people I see are performing competence extremely successfully while sleeping badly, avoiding particular situations, and bracing constantly for something they cannot name. We work on lowering that background cost, which is usually invisible to everybody else and expensive to the person paying it. Administration held me for a few years before I returned, and this is the work I missed most. It asks for an attention that paperwork never required. If you are managing well and paying too much for it, get in touch.