The demands of modern life can take a significant toll on your emotional well-being.
Balancing high expectations, workplace dynamics, and personal goals can leave you feeling overwhelmed, disconnected and emotionally drained.
You may find yourself struggling with stress, self-doubt, or the pressure to perform, while also navigating relationships, boundaries, and the challenge of maintaining a sense of connection to what you want and need.
Therapy offers a space to explore these experiences and feelings with curiosity and compassion. Together, we can uncover the patterns shaping your responses, be that in your personal or working life.
This might be exploring a sense of your critical inner voice, relational issues both at work and socially and issues around ’fitting in’ and having low self-worth. Through this process, I can support you to reconnect with your feelings and sense of self, and find greater ease in navigating the complexities of the modern workplace.
Therapy with Evy Samuelsson
Below are some of the most common issues that clients bring to therapy with me:
The emotional challenges of modern life, both your personal and working life
Critical sense of self and low self-worth: Working on what it means to feel ‘less than’ or ‘not worthy,’ how that shows up in your relationship with others, at work, and in social situations, and whether that critical sense of self feels familiar. We explore how that critical inner voice developed and how it became such an integral part of your sense of self.
In our therapy sessions we can practice countering those critical inner thoughts and learn to hear a more positive internal voice that recognises the positives and possibilities that are facts, and you can draw strength from.
Relational issues: In therapy, we work on how to express your needs and boundaries with both colleagues, friends and intimate partners and also how to respond to their ‘needs & boundaries’ too. We can explore why you find yourself repeating behaviour and situations that are not positive for you. We can look at how past ‘attachment wounds’ might be impacting on your current relationships and explore issues around sex and dating.
Therapy is a safe place to ‘try out’ new responses and even to practice how you might respond differently in a given situation. During the session we might explore how you voice your thoughts and needs and in this way you can ‘try’ a different approach in complete safety with no judgement.
Controlling and intrusive thoughts: In our therapy sessions we can explore how these thoughts affect your daily life, how difficult it is to live fully with these thought patterns, and how they impact your work and relationships. I would also invite you to speak of any potential shame and fear that these feelings and thoughts can bring. Speaking about shame and fear with someone that you can trust and that you know can support you, can be a very powerful experience and helps normalise and make sense of why those feelings come up in the first place, something that helps to minimise these feelings, sometimes making them disappear altogether.
Issues around fitting in and not being part of the ‘norm’: Whatever you feel ‘sets you apart’ and makes you different from the ‘norm’ be that identity-related issues such as neurodivergence, sexuality, gender, race, cultural differences, and disabilities, it can be hard to ‘fit in’ especially as part of the problem is often the way society responds to you and so you are having to find a way of accommodating their responses to what feels quite normal to you.
Therapy helps you to explore your perspective and individual sense of self while also bringing in a critical perspective on the world we live in and how it affects our mental health.
Loss or grief in any form: This could be the loss of a parent, relative, or friend, or the loss of a part of yourself, or something that has been a significant part of your life, or perhaps the reality of a loss that you hoped for something that won’t now happen.
We often think of grief and loss in the form of a death of someone but in reality it can be the loss of anything that holds importance to us such as the loss of a sense of your cultural heritage, if this is denied by society or your circumstances, or a childhood sense of self if perhaps you grew up looking after other family members and so were denied the time to just ‘be a child’ without responsibility. Perhaps the loss is for the hope of something, maybe you are unable to have children and so you are grieving the loss of becoming a parent, or maybe your health has changed and you are grieving the loss of your former, healthier, active self.
Therapy allows us to work through the stages of grief at a speed and in a way that we can manage, making sense of what has happened and finding a new way of thinking about where we are now and where we might like to be in the future.
Feeling adrift or uprooted – Living away from ‘home’ Being Swedish, I have an interest in working with clients navigating a sense of not belonging or ‘fitting in.’ I understand the complexities of leaving one’s home country—the sense of in-betweenness, the longing for connection, and the struggle to find a place that truly feels like home.
Maybe you are looking to find a sense of belonging, whether because you are not from the UK or because you feel outside the ‘norm’ in some other way. Therapy with me can be a space to explore these feelings and make sense of what it means to feel not quite ‘part of’—or to feel ‘in-between’ or neither/nor.
Therapy in Swedish and English
Though I work in English I offer therapy in Swedish too. Sometimes it is more comfortable to work in our ‘mother tongue’ and so if you would like to speak Swedish in our therapy sessions then I welcome that.
How I Work
I work integratively which means my focus in therapy is on you as the client and what your needs might be. This could involve looking at memories of the past and processing them together or focusing on what is happening in the moment—whether in work, intimate relationships, family life, or friendships.
The relational aspect of my work means I also bring in aspects of how I understand and see you. I invite you to explore how you feel about me as your therapist, as I believe that openness and reflection on the therapeutic relationship can help in understanding other relational dynamics outside of the therapy room. I believe a strong therapeutic relationship is key to therapy bringing both change and insight.
Other Areas I Work With
I work with a range of issues, including:
- Anxious thoughts, worries, spiralling, and panic attacks
- Bereavement, grief, and loss
- Body image issues and disordered eating
- Burnout and exhaustion
- Childhood trauma, including childhood sexual abuse
- Family issues, attachment difficulties, estrangement, and conflict
- Hormonal changes and issues, including PMS, PMDD, perimenopause, and menopause
- Infertility and hormonal treatment
- LGBTQ+ issues
- Low mood, self-harm, and suicidal ideation
- Parenting, be this becoming a new parent or navigating parenthood and other commitments
- Neurodivergence, including ADHD, Autism, and AuDHD
- Relational issues, breakups, communication difficulties, sex and intimacy issues, and polyamory
Training and Qualifications:
I hold a Diploma in Integrative Counselling from the Minster Centre in London. I also hold a Master of Arts degree and a BA (Hons) from Goldsmiths, University of London.
I am a registered members of the BACP (British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists).
Outside of my hours at City Therapy Rooms, I also work in a low-cost community counselling service.
Contact:
Rates:
£80 per 50 minute session
Sessions:
Psychotherapy sessions at City Therapy Space: Monday afternoon
