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Hi, I am Sebastiana.
I support and empower my clients to better understand their internal world and discover their own pathways to wellbeing. I am committed to guiding others towards greater self-compassion, clarity, confidence and wholeness.
I am an experienced Integrative Counsellor and Internal Family Systems Therapist registered with the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP).
I am the co-founder of the social enterprise Ecotherapy East, based in Suffolk, which is committed to increasing biodiversity, creating a nature reserve on the 12-acre meadow we steward as a community. By investing in the work with me, you are also supporting the ecosystems and over 500 young trees we take care of.
I offer individual sessions for adults and adolescents (16+), drawing on my training and experience in the following modalities:
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"No matter how much pain or dysfunction you have to deal with in your life, every part of your psyche is doing best to help you"
Jay Earl IFS author & clinician
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"Sebastiana helped me during a particularly stressful time and gave me incredibly useful tools to cope and deal with what was going on around me. She’s gentle and empathic, and our sessions felt like a safe space to explore my inner parts, but also talk about the little difficulties of everyday life. After only a few months of therapy, I feel calmer, more grounded, and confident in my abilities to heal." IFS client ​​
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I specialise in working with:
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Childhood trauma: emotional neglect, loss and grief, bullying, family alcoholism and addictions, adult children of emotionally immature parents, adults adopted or fostered as children
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Relationship issues and non-parenthood/childlessness
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Identity & self issues: low self worth, self-criticism, perfectionism, worthlessness and people-pleasing
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Cultural challenges: issues around multi-cultural living and being an immigrant, such as minority stress, ambiguous loss and imposter syndrome
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ecological distress - worry about climate crisis, poly-crisis and social injustice; growing our ecological self, and finding belonging and wisdom in the natural world
Workshops and community work​​​
“IFS groups offer an opportunity for participants to see their Parts as universally natural and part of being human. They foster insight and offer the feeling of community and the collective, felt experience of Self-energy.” Chris Burris.
