Counselling for Adult Trauma
Trauma changes how you experience the world but healing is possible. Counselling offers a safe space to process what happened, regain control, and start feeling whole again.
Available face-to-face in Rotherham or online.
Must be 18+
Understanding Adult Trauma
Trauma isn’t just about what happened, it’s about how it made you feel: unsafe, powerless, overwhelmed. Adult trauma can result from a wide range of experiences, including accidents, violence, abusive relationships, medical trauma, sudden loss, or witnessing distressing events. It can lead to symptoms such as anxiety, emotional numbness, flashbacks, nightmares, hypervigilance, or difficulty trusting others.
Trauma can make it feel like you're stuck in survival mode, reacting rather than living.
How Counselling Can Help with Adult Trauma
Trauma-informed counselling helps you process overwhelming experiences at your own pace. It’s not about reliving the past, but about creating safety in the present. In therapy, you’ll learn to recognise your trauma responses, manage triggers, and begin reconnecting with your emotions and body in a grounded way.
Together, we’ll work to reduce fear, shame, or guilt and support you in rebuilding your sense of self, trust, and safety from the inside out.
Meet your Counsellor, Sarah
Hello I’m Sarah, the woman behind Empowered Within Counselling.
I love supporting and enabling my clients to heal, grow and become their true self. I believe that counselling is a journey and when I work with a client, I am on that journey with them. I am very committed to ensuring my clients receive the right support for their needs.
With over 20 years of experience, including within the NHS, of offering support to people in various settings, I bring maturity and an innate understanding of other people’s needs, together with my own lived experience.
Statistics About Adult Trauma and Counselling
Trauma-focused therapies have been shown to significantly reduce trauma symptoms and improve quality of life.
Source: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
Over 60% of UK adults have experienced a traumatic event, with many not receiving adequate support or treatment.
Source: Mind UK – Trauma Research Summary
Sessions are available face-to-face in Rotherham or online
I offer clients the chance to work through their issues in a safe, non-judgmental space, using an integrative approach, which helps me to meet client’s individual needs.
I have a counselling room, based in West Melton on the outskirts of Rotherham, that I use for face-to-face sessions.
To make my sessions as accessible as possible, I also offer online sessions.
Counselling can be the first step to a happier you.
Let’s start your journey today.