Fresh Minds Therapy
Counselling to help you come home to yourself
If you’ve been holding everything together while quietly feeling overwhelmed, you’re not alone.
I offer trauma-informed, neuro-affirming counselling for women navigating perimenopause, shame, and anxiety.
Together, we create space for your nervous system to rest, your story to unfold, and your confidence to return.
Feel heard. Feel safe. Find you again.
Therapy and Counselling Sessions in Banbury, Oxfordshire
Welcome – I’m Jo, a trauma-informed counsellor based in Banbury, Oxfordshire.
I know reaching out for support can feel daunting, especially if you’ve been holding things together for everyone else.
Here, you don’t have to do that anymore.
This is a space to exhale, to explore what’s been weighing on you and begin finding steadier ground again.
I work with women navigating perimenopause, shame, and anxiety, often while also discovering or understanding their neurodivergence.
My role is to offer calm, relational support where we explore what’s underneath the overwhelm and begin restoring self-trust, emotional steadiness, and belonging; in your body, your relationships, and your everyday life.
My Approach
You can work with me in person in Banbury or online across the UK, whichever feels safest and most comfortable for you.
My counselling style is person-centred, trauma-informed and collaborative, guided entirely by your pace. I focus on creating safety, empathy, and real connection.
As a neuro-affirming therapist, I welcome and respect all ways of thinking, feeling and being. Whether you identify as neurodivergent or are still exploring that possibility, you’ll be met with openness, curiosity, and understanding; never judgement or pressure.
Therapy with me often weaves together:
Attachment theory, to explore how early experiences shape our current patterns
Psychoeducation, to help you understand what’s happening in your body and mind
Emotion-focused and somatic awareness, to gently reconnect you with your inner signals and needs
Together, we explore how past experiences may still echo in the present and find ways to support healing, self-understanding and growth.
Counselling isn’t about fixing you, it’s about creating space for you to be seen, heard and supported, and to rediscover the parts of you that feel most authentic and alive.
If that sounds like the kind of space you’ve been looking for, I’d love to hear from you.
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My Approach
How I work
Past
Sometimes our past stories still echo in the present. Together, we explore where certain patterns or beliefs began.
Not to stay there, but to understand how they’ve shaped how you see yourself today.
Present
We gently bring awareness to what’s happening now; your emotions, relationships, and inner world.
So you can begin to respond with curiosity instead of self-criticism.
Future
With new insight and steadier ground, we focus on creating small, meaningful shifts that align with the life you want to move toward.
One that feels more like home in your own skin.
Types of Counselling Support I Offer
At Fresh Minds Therapy, I offer one-to-one sessions that meet you where you are; blending gentle curiosity, compassion, and evidence-based understanding.
Here’s how our work might take shape:
- Individual Counselling: A space that’s fully yours. To slow down, reflect, and begin understanding what you need. Sessions are shaped around you, at your pace.
- Trauma-Informed Counselling: Grounded in safety and understanding, this approach supports you in making sense of past or ongoing experiences without overwhelm or re-traumatisation.
- Stress and Anxiety Management: Together, we explore what’s underneath the stress and develop tools that help you regulate, soften self-criticism, and feel more in control.
- Cultural and Intergenerational Issues: A space to explore identity, belonging, and family stories, especially when cultural expectations or inherited patterns feel heavy to carry.
- Neurodivergence: Celebrating and supporting all ways of being, we can explore sensory experiences, burnout, masking, and self-acceptance through a neuro-affirming lens.
- Menopause and Hormonal Changes: Whether you’re navigating perimenopause, menopause, or hormonal changes, we’ll work together to understand the emotional impact and reconnect with your sense of self.
Who is counselling for?
Counselling is for anyone who’s finding life a bit too heavy right now, whether you’re navigating change, feeling disconnected, or just need space to breathe.
It can help with:
- Stress and Anxiety: Learn tools to manage overwhelming thoughts and feelings.
- Low Mood or Depression: When everything feels flat or foggy, counselling offers a safe place to explore what’s underneath and begin reconnecting with hope.
- Relationships: Whether with partners, friends, or family; we can look at boundaries, communication, and emotional safety.
- Self-Esteem and Confidence: Rebuilding a sense of worth, belonging, and trust in yourself, especially if you’ve spent years caring for others before yourself.
- Trauma and Loss: Processing experiences that still echo in your life, at a pace that feels safe and contained.
- Life Transitions: Supporting you through shifts like perimenopause, parenting, career changes, or identity transitions.
- Neurodivergence: A space that honours your sensory, emotional, and cognitive needs, whether you’re diagnosed, questioning, or simply seeking to understand yourself better.
- Menopause and Hormonal Changes: Understanding how shifting hormones can impact mood, memory, and self-identity. Helping you feel more grounded and at home in your changing body.
Read some latest posts on my Blog
What Is Trauma-Informed Counselling?
Why Boundaries Matter: Protecting Your Wellbeing
How Do I Know If Counselling Is Right for Me?
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What My Clients Say
“I started a journey through counselling. Through the compassionate and caring listening, guidance, and skill of Jo, I can look back at the really hard times, and they are much sweeter because of the care and support I have received. I am discovering a new me and am beginning to see possibilities and a wider life that would have made me feel anxious and overwhelmed before. Thank you feels so inadequate to express my gratitude and appreciation”
