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Laura Goodall, UKCP Accredited Psychotherapist

Laura Goodall


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Laura Goodall, UKCP Accredited Psychotherapist

Laura Goodall

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My Approach

I work relationally, meaning our relationship is part of the therapy—not something outside it. I pay close attention to what emerges between us in the room: emotion, silence, tension, retreat, contact. These moments can tell us more than words alone.

My style is grounded, collaborative, and body-aware. I’m not here to interpret or analyse from a distance—I’m alongside you. Together, we might notice what happens when you speak, when you feel, when you try to connect. We might explore what’s missing or defended against. What’s overwhelming, or out of reach. What’s aching to be heard.

Gestalt therapy sees symptoms not as pathology to be fixed, but as creative responses to life. I’m especially interested in how nervous system overwhelm, unmet relational needs, or early rupture shape the way we meet the world now. Sometimes we adapt by pulling away, sometimes by pushing through. Therapy is a space to experiment with other ways of being—with yourself, with me, and in your life.

There’s no pressure to get it right. We go at your pace, and we make space for what wants to emerge.

About Me

I’m a UKCP-registered Gestalt Psychotherapist offering a relational, embodied approach to therapy. I work with adults who feel overwhelmed, anxious, stuck, angry, or emotionally cut off—from themselves, from others, or from the life they want to live.

At the heart of my work is an interest in how we make contact—how we relate to others, to our emotions, to our bodies, and to parts of ourselves that may feel disowned or out of reach. My clinical and research focus is on difference at the contact boundary: how we negotiate identity, regulation, and connection when meeting feels uncertain, unsafe, or disrupted.

I offer a space to explore these tensions with compassion and curiosity—to support meaningful change through deepening awareness, rather than surface fixes.

Before becoming a therapist, I worked in education and leadership. I now work in private practice with people navigating trauma, neurodivergence, relational rupture, or chronic patterns of dysregulation and emotional overwhelm.

I work with

  • Companies
  • Individuals

Special Interests

Like all UKCP registered psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors I can work with a wide range of issues, but here are some areas in which I have a special interest or additional experience.

I have a particular interest in working with ADHD and broader neurodivergence. I understand ADHD not as a disorder of attention, but as a difference in how attention, emotion, energy, and nervous system regulation are experienced and expressed. This can often show up as intensity, restlessness, shame, overwhelm, or a sense of being “too much” or “not enough.” It can also mean deep creativity, sensitivity, and a powerful capacity to tune in—especially when space is made for it. I don’t take a pathologising approach. I work with the lived experience—how it impacts identity, relationships, regulation, and self-worth. Together, we might explore the push-pull of urgency and shutdown, the relationship with time and task, the experience of masking, or the cost of constantly adapting to environments not built with you in mind. My approach is attuned, relational, and paced to meet you where you are, without rushing to fix or explain away what might be asking to be witnessed first.
I have a particular interest in working with anxiety—not just as a set of symptoms to manage, but as an expression of something deeper trying to make contact. Anxiety can show up as racing thoughts, physical discomfort, avoidance, compulsive control, or a feeling of being trapped in high alert. But beneath that, there’s often a story the nervous system is still holding onto. My approach is to slow things down. We pay attention to what happens in your body, your breath, your relationships—so that we can understand what fuels the anxiety, and what helps to soften it. This might include exploring old adaptations, unmet needs, or the parts of you that never learned it was safe to rest. I’m especially attuned to how anxiety can mask other emotional experiences—grief, rage, shame, or disconnection—and how much energy goes into trying to stay in control. Therapy offers a space to lay some of that down. Not all at once, and not without support—but in a way that invites relief, not overwhelm.
I have a particular interest in working with autistic clients, including those who have discovered their neurodivergence later in life. I understand autism not as a deficit, but as a different way of sensing, processing, and relating to the world. Many of the people I work with describe a lifelong sense of disconnection, masking, or being misunderstood—especially in environments that haven’t recognised their needs or ways of being. This can lead to deep exhaustion, relational rupture, or a loss of contact with one’s own inner world. In therapy, we can begin to explore these patterns gently, without pressure to perform or conform. I offer a space where stimming, silence, tangents, or intensity aren’t pathologised—they’re welcomed as part of your way of showing up. We might work with sensory awareness, contact at your pace, and the possibility of building trust without forcing closeness. I am committed to a neuroaffirmative, non-pathologising approach that honours difference at the contact boundary—and centres your experience as valid, complex, and worthy of care.
I have a special interest in working with people living with chronic illness—especially where symptoms are invisible, fluctuating, or poorly understood. This might include autoimmune conditions, fatigue syndromes, pain, neuroimmune dysregulation, or functional disorders that haven’t found a clear medical explanation. I don’t separate the body from the emotional world. Often, chronic symptoms carry stories of survival, stress, trauma, and unmet need. Therapy won’t “fix” the body—but it can create a space to listen to it, to make meaning of what it holds, and to explore what it’s been trying to communicate. I work gently and collaboratively, with deep respect for pacing, energy limits, and the frustration, fear, or grief that can come with long-term illness. We might explore how you relate to your symptoms, your past experiences of care (or neglect), or how illness shapes your identity and relationships. I hold a strong commitment to working at the intersection of mind, body, and relational process—with warmth, curiosity, and no pressure to be anything other than how you are.
I have a special interest in working with depression—not just as low mood or lack of motivation, but as a deep shutting down of feeling, aliveness, or connection. Depression can feel like stuckness, fog, hopelessness, or a heavy silence that’s hard to put into words. It can also be a way the body protects itself when things have felt too much, for too long. I don't treat depression as a problem to be solved with positivity or pressure. Instead, I get curious about what the depression might be doing—what it's holding back, what it's trying to keep you safe from, or what it might be asking you to stop pretending about. In our work together, we might explore where aliveness got interrupted, how emotions have been managed (or avoided), and whether the depressive state is protecting something that hasn't yet been spoken. Sometimes, even the desire to disappear makes a kind of sense. And in therapy, we don't rush to pull you out of that place—we meet you there, and begin from what's real.

Types of Therapies Offered

  • Gestalt Psychotherapist

What I can help with

  • ADHD
  • Age-related Issues
  • Anxiety
  • Autism
  • Bereavement
  • Chronic Illness
  • Depression
  • Divorce
  • Infertility
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
  • Online Counselling
  • Parents
  • Relationships
  • Separation
  • Spirituality
  • Trauma

Types of sessions

  • Face to Face - Long Term
  • Face to Face - Short Term
  • Online Therapy

UKCP College

  • Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy College (HIPC)
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