Therapy for Boarding School Survivors

The effects of being sent away from home to boarding school and learning to survive there can have long-lasting and damaging effects. 
Boarding school issues I often work with in one-to-one therapy include:

• Relationships
• Depression
• Bullying​

Boarding School Survivors often...​

• Are defensive in relationships
• Withold or suppress emotions and feelings
• Struggle to know how to communicate with their partner
• Are secretive
• Rely on strategic thinking even in personal situations
• Find it hard to relax 
• Overwork or need to be in ‘task mode’
• Need to feel they are internally in control
• Are critical of others who ‘give way’ to emotion
• May have difficulties in knowing how to connect with their children
• Are capable of leading a double life
• Feel ashamed of asking for help

My aim is to help you address your difficulties and overcome them, so that you can develop more satisfying relationships with those around you. The process involves recognising the effects of boarding school, acknowledging and accepting the strategies you learned to survive as a boarder (which will have become second nature to you), and finally discovering and learning healthier patterns of behaviour.

I have completed professional training in Specialist Psychotherapy with Ex-Boarders.