What if you could feel calmer,
more in control, and finally start to build happier,
healthier relationships — with yourself
and the people around you?
Hello I’m Alice,
I’m a BACP Accredited Psychotherapist with over a decade of experience and I help deeply feeling introverts make sense of their emotions, quiet their inner critic and heal from the impact of childhood trauma – including growing up with emotionally immature parents. Many of my clients are neurodivergent or late-identified AuDHD, and I am too.
Life can feel impossibly hard when you’ve spent years navigating difficult relationships, constant self-criticism, or the emotional fallout of growing up with parents who aren’t good at handling emotions. It’s exhausting. I get it, not just as a therapist, but as someone who’s been through the kind of darkness that makes you question if things can ever get better (spoiler, it really can.)
If your inner critic feels like it has the loudest voice in the room, let’s start there. Download my free guide: “Calm the Critic” to take the first step toward change.
Does This Sound Like You?
- You feel overwhelmed by emotions and exhausted from overthinking everything.
- You’ve worked so hard to meet everyone else’s expectations, but inside, you feel stuck, lost and don’t really know who you are.
- Your inner critic is relentless, and no matter what you achieve, it never feels good enough.
- You’re starting to wonder whether late-identified autism or ADHD might explain some of it – the exhaustion, the feeling of always being slightly out of step, the sense that you’ve been masking your whole life.
- You’re constantly juggling the pressures of life, but deep down, you wish you could just stop, breathe, and feel calm for once.
If this feels familiar, I want you to know you’re not alone and there is nothing wrong with you (even if you’re secretly convinced there is).
For many of my clients, the feelings beneath the surface are connected to childhood trauma, emotionally immature parenting, or the exhaustion of living as a neurodivergent person in a world that wasn’t built for your brain.
I specialise in childhood trauma, CPTSD, shame and the inner critic. My approach combines relational-developmental therapy and EMDR, which means I work at the root cause, not just the symptoms. The goal isn’t better coping strategies, it’s real change.
Together, we can explore the patterns that have been holding you back, help you step out of the overwhelm and create a way forward that feels authentic and sustainable.
You don’t have to face this alone. Let’s take the first step together…
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Alice Tew
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