Trauma-informed psychotherapy for PTSD, addiction and long-standing coping
Change The Script UK is an owner-led therapy practice specialising in trauma-based work with adults
How It Works
Therapy at Change The Script UK is a structured, collaborative process designed for work that is often complex, trauma-based, and long-standing. Sessions provide a steady, well-boundaried space to explore the patterns, responses, and experiences that have shaped how you cope, particularly where previous approaches have not brought lasting change.
My work is relational and integrative, guided by the pace and needs of each individual rather than a fixed formula. Together, we focus not only on insight, but on how your nervous system responds to stress, safety, and connection, helping you make sense of your experiences in a way that supports real change over time.
Therapy is confidential. What you share remains private, with the usual ethical and legal limits relating to serious risk of harm.
Beginning therapy is a meaningful commitment, both emotionally and financially. This work can be challenging at times, and progress is rarely linear. However, when approached with care, structure, and consistency, these moments often form the foundation for deeper, more sustainable change.
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The 'Therapy Speak' Debate
Attachment Theory in Adult Relationships
The 'Therapy Speak' Debate
Lately, there seems to be a growing debate around what some people call “therapy speak.”
Words like trauma, narcissist, gaslighting, boundaries, toxic, triggered, and attachment style have become part of everyday conversation in a way that would have been unusual even a few years ago.
On one hand, that feels important.
Many psychological con
Lately, there seems to be a growing debate around what some people call “therapy speak.”
Words like trauma, narcissist, gaslighting, boundaries, toxic, triggered, and attachment style have become part of everyday conversation in a way that would have been unusual even a few years ago.
On one hand, that feels important.
Many psychological concepts have become more accessible. People are finding language for experiences they may never previously have understood. Conversations about mental health, trauma, and relationships are happening more openly than ever before.
On the other hand, there are understandable concerns about how these terms are sometimes used online.
Complex psychological concepts can become simplified into short videos, memes, or soundbites. Labels can be applied quickly. Nuance can get lost. Human behaviour can start to look far more straightforward than it really is.
The reality is that most psychological concepts sit in shades of grey.
Not every difficult relationship involves narcissism.
Not every disagreement is gaslighting.
Not every uncomfortable experience is trauma.
But equally, these experiences do exist, and for many people finding the right language can be an important part of making sense of what they have lived through.
Perhaps the challenge isn't whether these words should be used, but how we use them.
With curiosity rather than certainty.
With context rather than assumptions.
And with enough humility to recognise that a social media post can introduce an idea, but rarely captures the full complexity of a person's story.
The conversations themselves aren't the problem.
The risk is forgetting that behind every psychological term is a human being, and human beings are rarely as simple as the labels we give them.
AI in Therapy
Attachment Theory in Adult Relationships
The 'Therapy Speak' Debate
There has been a lot of discussion recently about AI and therapy.
Some people see it as a breakthrough. Others see it as a threat.
The reality, as is often the case, is probably more complicated than either position allows.
AI can provide information, reflection, prompts, and a space to organise thoughts. For some people, it may even feel ea
There has been a lot of discussion recently about AI and therapy.
Some people see it as a breakthrough. Others see it as a threat.
The reality, as is often the case, is probably more complicated than either position allows.
AI can provide information, reflection, prompts, and a space to organise thoughts. For some people, it may even feel easier to open up to a screen than another human being.
That shouldn't be dismissed.
But therapy is not simply the exchange of information.
In trauma work especially, healing rarely comes from insight alone.
Many people already understand why they think, feel, or react the way they do. The difficulty is not a lack of knowledge. It's that the nervous system continues to respond as though old dangers are still present.
Therapy involves something more than explanation.
It is a relationship.
It is being met by another person.
It is the experience of safety, consistency, curiosity, and connection over time.
These are things that technology may support, but not fully replace.
At the same time, I don't think the question is whether AI is "good" or "bad" for mental health.
The more interesting question may be:
What are people seeking from AI that they have struggled to find elsewhere?
Understanding?
Privacy?
Accessibility?
A space to think without fear of judgement?
Those are questions worth paying attention to.
Technology will continue to evolve.
The human need to feel seen, understood, and connected is unlikely to disappear.
Perhaps the future isn't about choosing between the two, but understanding where each has a place.
Attachment Theory in Adult Relationships
Attachment Theory in Adult Relationships
Attachment Theory in Adult Relationships
Attachment theory has become one of the most talked-about concepts in relationships.
It's not unusual now to hear people describe themselves as anxious, avoidant, secure, or disorganised.
Sometimes that language can be helpful.
It can offer a framework for understanding patterns that have felt confusing for years.
But I sometimes wonder wheth
Attachment theory has become one of the most talked-about concepts in relationships.
It's not unusual now to hear people describe themselves as anxious, avoidant, secure, or disorganised.
Sometimes that language can be helpful.
It can offer a framework for understanding patterns that have felt confusing for years.
But I sometimes wonder whether attachment styles are becoming something we identify with, rather than something we become curious about.
Attachment theory was never intended to place people into fixed categories.
It was intended to help us understand how early experiences of connection, safety, consistency, and care can shape the way we relate to others later in life.
How we respond to closeness.
How we navigate conflict.
How we experience trust.
How we manage distance.
In therapy, attachment patterns often make sense when viewed through the lens of adaptation.
The person who struggles to trust may have learned that trust wasn't always safe.
The person who fears abandonment may have experienced relationships that felt unpredictable or inconsistent.
The person who pulls away when things become emotionally close may be protecting themselves from something that once felt overwhelming.
These responses can create difficulties in adult relationships.
But they rarely emerge without reason.
Perhaps the value of attachment theory isn't in deciding what "type" of person we are.
Perhaps it's in helping us understand the stories our relationships have taught us about connection, safety, and belonging.
And recognising that those stories, while powerful, are not necessarily permanent.