Therapy that’s strengthening and deeply human.

Overcome procrastination, overwhelm or isolation and create a new playbook.

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Teamwork that steadies you and a journey that transforms your life

Working with me will feel collaborative and connecting. This will enhance the nervous system’s remarkable capacity for healing and growth when the right conditions are created.

Rather than viewing you as “needing to be fixed”, and me “providing the goods” we’ll work together as two thoughtful people who’re both bringing insight from our life experience, intuition and open-minded participation with each other.

Whatever your priorities, I will help you create meaningful, lasting change within yourself, your relationships and the wider shape of your life.

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A STEADY STEP BY STEP PROCESS

A journey that empowers you

I’ve learned that real change is typically built tweak by tweak, in ways that genuinely fit your life. If things already feel too intense, rest assured, I will help you make transformative shifts that feel steadying.

Enabling our nervous system to recode our experiences is more effectively done when we get centred and grounded first. I will help you do this. Even healing from trauma doesn’t have to be overwhelming.

The approaches I’ve trained in like EMDR, FAP, Compassion Focused Therapy, CBT, IFS Acceptance and Commitment Therapy or AEDP are about building people up, not leaving people shaky.

Let’s get the comfy trousers and practical shoes on and walk through it together. At a considered and empowering pace.

Four steps from struggle to strength

Your healing and growth path might focus more on recovery, building confidence and self-trust, improving relationships and communication, or navigating career and life transitions with greater clarity and steadiness.

Whatever feels most important for you right now, our work together will be guided by the following four steps:

1. Create a holistic insight map and a constructive path forward.

2. Apply practical strategies for more stability, resilience and active progression.

3. Use transformative therapies to shift deeper patterns and embed new templates.

4. Build in sustainable skills, strategies and habits for long term success.

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STEP 1:

Create a map and path forward

We’ll look at what’s shaped you, past and present, and what you want life to feel like going forwards.

Together, we’ll consider your needs as a rounded person, create a values-based vision for your future to inspire your growth, while staying focused on what matters most right now.

We will consider your overarching pathway as well as specific practical steps that are doable and motivating for you, to go from where you are now to where you want to get to.

We will then look at what internal and external obstacles are hindering you that we can either actively remove or creatively work around.

This sets us up to get moving in the best direction.

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STEP 2:

Build your balance, resilience, momentum, strength

The ideas you’re thinking about won’t just stay at the level of talk. Let’s get going in grounded ways that build your strength and nervous system regulation.

Together, we’ll look for realistic ways for you to move forward from stuck places and create meaningful momentum between sessions.

I’ll help you make doable tweaks in practical ways that fit your life and the challenges you’re facing.

This is about restoring faith in yourself to go past avoidance and make change happen in energising ways.

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STEP 3:

Shift deeper patterns, create new templates

We will draw on relevant therapies - and coaching - to unlock and boost the deeper changes you want to make. Some approaches such as EMDR, CBT, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Compassion Focused Therapy may already be informing our work, but now, as we take further steps, this is about helping you heal, grow and flourish more profoundly.

The aim is to help you address root causes, move beyond old fear, stress or stuck patterns while building the confidence, skills and self-trust to make healthy transformations at core structural level.

We will embed freshly updated templates in your body-mind-brain to encode healthy new patterns you can draw on and integrate into your life.

Therapies I use
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STEP 4:

Build in habits and strategies for long term success

Together, we’ll strengthen the sustainable habits that help meaningful change to actually stick.

I will help you properly embed ways of thinking, responding and caring for yourself that support you in the long term.

We’ll create a clear playbook so you’re better equipped not just for now, but also for what life brings going forward.

How teamwork will consistently feel

1. Compassionate and steadying

We all need someone in our corner at times. If life feels heavy, or overwhelming right now, bring it here. I’ll meet you with steadiness, warmth and humanity. Some strengthening chuckles along the way are highly likely too.

2. Attentive and guiding

Having someone alongside you who genuinely sees your uniqueness can make a huge difference when life feels exhausting or off track. Together, we’ll build on the micro and macro shifts that help confidence and self-trust grow with momentum.

3. Empowering and skill-building

Life is inevitably up and down for all of us.

A mature response is building the courage, wisdom and practical self-leadership that enables you to navigate more steadily. I’ll help build your skills and resilience so you don’t disappear into autopilot or another Netflix binge!

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A SAFE SPACE TO EXPERIMENT

A place to practice real connection

I’d love you to see our connection as a safe place to experiment with new ways of relating - building more ease, courage and self-trust in how you communicate with others.

Together, we can practice:

◆ Asking the awkward-but-important questions and being clearer about what you want

◆ Saying “I don’t understand”, “slow down”, “pause” or “no” without apology

◆ Sharing your boundaries, truths, strengths and vulnerabilities more openly

◆ Giving and receiving appreciation, empathy and growth-oriented feedback

◆ Moving beyond stress, drama or over-functioning and giving yourself more rest, pleasure and genuine connection

What my clients say:

  • “Eleanor is a brilliant choice of CBT therapist because she approaches the therapy in such an open minded and honest way, Eleanor always had suggestions of what would be useful which were exactly what was needed next in my process.”

  • “I have never met anyone with such a huge range of skill as well as such a big heart as Eleanor. ”

  • “Eleanor is fantastic in her approach and passion for CBT techniques. Eleanor made me feel human and normal so I could let go of shame.”

  • “Therapy with Eleanor has really has helped me to think more positively about my life and environment.”

  • “With Eleanor’s guidance I am feeling motivated and inspired.”

  • “What I have learnt from Eleanor has improved my quality of life greatly.”

  • “I’d recommend therapy with Eleanor because I developed skills to cope throughout different life areas that were stressing me out.”

  • “To anyone thinking about working with Eleanor, my advice is: just do it!”

  • “With Eleanor’s help, my confidence has grown, my sense of inner peace has increased and I can use strategies to prevent the onset of stress and anxiety.”

  • “Thanks to Eleanor’s guidance, I’m much more calm these days. I respond more wisely rather than react to situations now.”

  • “With Eleanor’s support I have grown closer to my Father. I also feel more at ease to say what I really think.”

  • “I’ve never met anyone so dedicated to helping others as well as obviously living what she shares from the inside out. Eleanor has patiently and warmly helped me be OK with vulnerability.”

  • “CBT by phone worked out very well. I could be flexible about where I was when I spoke with Eleanor.”

  • “I found walk and talk sessions to be such a great way to practice becoming much more open minded.”

  • “Eleanor always asked me what I intuitively sensed would be most helpful for me on the day.”

  • “I really valued Eleanor’s creative and practical way of teaching me how to get present and stay present in my life.”

  • “Eleanor’s approach is really warm and funny and she’s helped me to be much more empathic.”

  • “Eleanor taught me how to get grounded, centred and present in the face of constant change, I much preferred our teamwork outdoors than any other therapy I’ve had in the past. Eleanor is brilliantly pragmatic and has helped me make all sorts of subtle but essential changes to the way I move through life and interact with other people. ”

  • “Walk and talk sessions with Eleanor has been brilliant. Thanks Eleanor Bigden – you really are a game changer!!”

  • “One of my goals was to get more exercise. I really didn’t expect Eleanor to be so bold as to help me do all that actually in session! great value for money!!”

  • “What I found in Eleanor was an incredibly knowledgeable, flexible and warm therapist with whom I felt completely supported.”

  • “With regards to online sessions - I actually began online sessions with Eleanor long before the outbreak of COVID. I required online sessions so as to make it easier to fit sessions in around work.”

  • “The most valuable things I’ve learnt are how to stand beside my feelings and recognise that they are important signposts that show me something about why I am feeling certain things. More often than not, such signposts are indicators to do something constructive, rather than avoid things. I have learnt that strength is acting in spite of fear and that feeling fear is not wrong but part of being human. Through the process of CBT my confidence has grown because I know that I have techniques that I can rely on to make a positive change to my life myself, and my inner peace has increased, because I understand where a lot of my destructive patterns have come from and am now able to get out of the cycle of them.”

  • “My online sessions with Eleanor helped me enormously in working with anxiety and with the ups and downs of life itself.”

  • “Eleanor quickly understood my situation and was able to design a specific programme that would address the various issues.”

  • “I can't recommend Eleanor highly enough. The mix of science, therapy and CBT worked wonders. Thank you Eleanor!”

  • “Eleanor by phone - she was always very warm and supportive and attentive.”

  • “I found EMDR and CBT with Eleanor online to be incredibly helpful.”

  • “I think everyone and anyone could benefit from some sessions with Eleanor.”

  • “Eleanor’s teamwork style is so uplifting and her awareness is really spot on.”

  • “Online sessions with Eleanor turned out to be a really good fit with my life.”

  • “Working with Eleanor over the phone was a big advantage as it meant I didn't need to take travel time on sweaty transport to get to sessions!”

  • “My quality of life has really improved, just give Eleanor a call she has a tremendous capacity to create a sensible and enjoyable approach.”

  • “If you decide to work with Eleanor you’ll quickly discover how she can help you bring much more joy into your life. Thanks to Eleanor I’ve got a bounce back in my step.”

  • “Eleanor is an unbelievable wealth of resources, skill, insight and guidance – and such a great listener.”

  • “Eleanor has an unusual knack of making intense things become fun and opportunities to laugh and lighten up.”

  • “Through my journey with Eleanor, my thought patterns are now much healthier.”

  • “I started CBT and EMDR with Eleanor because I was suffering from severe anxiety. CBT has helped me to turn my life around. Eleanor – I want to say a huge thank you to you.”

  • “Eleanor has helped me to address a lot of the negative patterns that I was living with by giving me techniques to overcome them.”