Areas of Support
I offer integrated, specialised support for women navigating:
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Neurodivergence (ADHD & ASD/autism)
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Pre-menstrual health conditions (PMDD, PME, PMS)
The following information aims to give you a sense of how we might work together and how you might benefit from this specialised support. You are far more than the area of concern that brings you to BodyTalk, so the suggestions below are not set in stone: our work together will grow in response to you.
If you have additional questions, reach out. We can discuss these in a free intro call:
Health anxiety
Health anxiety in women is more than worrying about illness. It’s far more nuanced than “overthinking” – though people may have said that to you.
It often reflects a highly-sensitised nervous system interacting with hormonal rhythms, past experiences, and a deep desire to feel safe in one’s body.
It can feel overwhelming, persistent and exhausting.
Many women notice that their anxiety spikes:
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Pre-menstrually (before your period)
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After illness
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Post-natally (after giving birth)
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During perimenopause
Rather than simply challenging thoughts or reducing reassurance-seeking, we’ll address:
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How hormones interact with anxiety and your nervous system
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How sleep disruption and fatigue increase hypervigilance and how to support this
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How to connect to and better gauge your body’s cues so you can build self-trust
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Nervous system overactivation through regulation techniques
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Rebuilding body and psychological safety
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Resilience work that: builds helpful habits around triggers e.g. health information and reminders; creates and supports routines that reduce stress sensitivity; builds self-compassion
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Trauma or loss triggers
What you might gain from BodyTalk
Clients often report they:
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Decrease shame around anxiety
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Develop a calm, informed relationship with health
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Experience fewer anxiety spirals and intrusive thoughts
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Feel steadier across their cycle
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Reduce compulsive reassurance seeking
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Regain confidence in interpreting bodily signals; rebuild trust in their body
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Sleep more peacefully
This is specialist therapy that moves you from constant fear to informed awareness.
BodyTalk integrates physiology, psychology, and lived experience to support you to navigate daily life with less fear and more agency.
Neurodivergence (ADHD & ASD/autism
Neurodivergent women often experience the world differently — and this difference interacts with your biology and body in powerful ways.
For one thing, hormonal fluctuations can amplify neurodivergent traits and symptoms, making everyday life more exhausting and overwhelming.
Rather than just working on coping strategies or thinking patterns, we’ll address:
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Burnout processing and recovery from masking; preventing burnout and overwhelm
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Energy pacing aligned with your biology
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Hormone-neurodivergence education
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How to stabilise your sensory nervous system
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Reducing any internalised shame
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Repairing identity and self-trust
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Strengthening boundaries and self-advocacy
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Supporting your executive function (planning, organising, starting and following through with tasks, regulating attention and behaviour, and adapting flexibly to changing situations)
What you might gain from BodyTalk
Clients often report:
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Clearer processing of themselves and their experiences
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Enhanced self-trust and confidence because they’re reconnected to their needs and boundaries
- Feeling better able to navigate relationships and social expectations without compromising their wellbeing
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Greater self-acceptance and authenticity because they’ve developed self-compassion and identity clarity
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Increased focus, emotional regulation, and energy
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Reduced overwhelm and burnout because they’ve developed sustainable routines and energy management
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Understanding of biological influences on behaviour
BodyTalk is specialist support that helps neurodivergent women navigate life more easefully.
What can feel like constant struggle, can instead become informed, self-compassionate engagement with yourself and life.
Perimenopause & menopause
Perimenopause and menopause are not simply life stages. They are neuroendocrine (nervous-hormone system) transitions that reshape mood, thinking, sleep, metabolism, and identity.
And it can feel overwhelming, confusing, and deeply affecting.
For one thing, when oestrogen declines, it impacts:
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Mood regulation
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Sleep
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Memory
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Your tolerance for stress
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Metabolism
Rather than just considering stress management techniques or emotional processing, our work integrates:
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Hormone education
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Stabilising your nervous system
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Emotional regulation tools
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Increasing resilience to overwhelm
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Restoring sleep
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Processing any identity shifts and endings
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Support to adapt to any body composition changes
What you might gain from BodyTalk
Clients often report:
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Greater emotional steadiness
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Improved sleep patterns
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Increased confidence in navigating this life stage
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Less shame around body changes
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Reduced anxiety and mood swings
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Renewed sense of identity
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BodyTalk is grounded in science and psychology. Delivered with compassion.
Your body is signalling change — and understanding it fully helps you move through this phase with clarity and self-trust.
Pre-menstrual health conditions
Severe pre-menstrual health conditions, including Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), reflect neurobiological sensitivity.
Your daily functioning, relationships, work, and wellbeing can feel stretched to breaking point every month and, what’s maybe worse, you feel misunderstood, dismissed, blamed or to blame.
Your luteal phase experiences and symptoms are not signs of weakness, poor coping skills, or character flaws – though you may have been told this.
But they do require nuanced understanding and care.
Rather than simply working with emotional distress, our work together includes:
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Understanding luteal phase neurochemistry and its impacts on mood, thinking, energy and stress
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Tools to buffer your nervous system that target overstimulation, build resilience and support better sleep
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Phase-specific life planning
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Relationship repair strategies
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Shame reduction
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Strengthening self-trust and internal coherence
What you might gain from BodyTalk
Clients often report:
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Enhanced clarity about symptom timing and triggers
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Greater confidence in self-regulation and planning
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Improved coping with social, work, and relational impact
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Less self-judgement and more self-understanding
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Stronger sense of agency
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Reduced emotional intensity and reactivity in vulnerable phases
This is not just “coping better.” It’s specialist, integrated support that helps you reclaim functional stability within your own cyclical biology.
With BodyTalk you can move through your cycle with greater clarity, steadiness, and wellbeing.
Trying to conceive
Trying to conceive (TTC) can be one of the most hopeful — and most emotionally complex — periods in a woman’s life.
For some, conception happens quickly. For many others, it becomes a month-by-month cycle of anticipation, hyperawareness, hope, disappointment, and recalibration.
Whether you are:
• TTC unassisted
• Tracking ovulation and optimising timing
• Undergoing investigations
• Beginning or currently navigating treatment such as ovulation induction, IUI, IVF, ICSI, or embryo transfer
• Using donor eggs, sperm, or embryos
• Freezing eggs or embryos for the future
Your experience is not just practical or medical - It is deeply physiological, psychological, and embodied.
TTC activates the hormonal system, the stress response, attachment patterns, identity, and your relationship with your body — often all at once.
Conception attempts — particularly when prolonged or medicalised — can place the nervous system into a chronic state of vigilance and hope-threat cycling.
Rather than just offering emotional validation and coping strategies, our work together integrates:
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Exploring your identity and building self-compassion, -trust and -worth
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Grief resilience for (potential) repeated disappointment; emotional resilience and recovery work
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Nervous system work around:
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Reducing hypervigilance and symptom checking
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Stabilising anxiety during waiting periods
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Building emotional tolerance for uncertainty
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Preventing burnout from repeated attempts
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Relationship strain support
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Understanding and working with cycle phases, hormones and - where appropriate – medications and treatments
What you might gain from BodyTalk
Clients often report:
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Fewer emotional crashes around menstruation
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Greater emotional stability during treatment cycles
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Increased confidence navigating medical decisions
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Less obsessive body checking
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Reconnection with their body, even amid uncertainty
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Reduced anxiety during the two-week wait
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Relief at being able to speak with someone who knows the acronyms, terms and process – you can just focus on exploring whatever you want to without having to explain things to your therapist
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Stronger boundaries with family, colleagues, friends or social pressure
Trying to conceive can be one of the most vulnerable seasons of a woman’s life.
I am here whenever you feel ready to reach out.
You do not have to choose between cognitive and emotional support and biological understanding. They all matter.
BodyTalk gives you that.