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As psychotherapists specialising in narcissistic abuse, parentification and childhood trauma, we are passionate about what we do. Our mission is to spread awareness, education and healing.

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We’re sorry you’ve experienced something to lead you to us, but we’re so glad you’re here.

Helen Villiers | LLB, PG Cert, PG Dip, MA

is a psychotherapist with a Masters in Working Therapeutically with Adult children of Narcissistic Parents, and specialising in Autism and ADHD.

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Katie McKenna | BA, MIACP

is a psychotherapist specialising in parentification and emotional abuse, with a degree in Integrative Counselling & Psychotherapy.

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144. Listening To My Inner Child

Our listener this week shares how she felt manipulated and silenced by her adoptive mother, describing how even her father’s death was weaponised against her. Now she’s no contact and struggling to speak up in her current relationships, she asks...

143. Just About Coping – An Interview with Dr. Natalie Cawley

As a psychotherapist and counselling psychologist within the NHS, our guest Dr. Natalie Cawley is no stranger to both sides of the therapy chair. Listen as she shares an invaluable look into how her own past has shaped her practice,...

142. Should I Really Be No Contact?

Driven by a fierce desire to protect her brother from her mother’s ‘poison’, our listener yearns for a relationship with the sibling she tried desperately to protect. But as Katie and Helen peel back the layers of her complicated family...

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