Helping you thrive at work, at study and in your life

I’m Sarah, a qualified BACP-registered counsellor with a special focus on workplace and academic wellbeing.

I offer in-person appointments in central Cambridge and Girton, as well as online sessions across the UK.

Many of my clients come to me feeling overwhelmed by constant pressure — whether from work, studies, or life or career transitions.

Counselling with me is a chance to pause, reflect, and reset. Together, we can work to untangle what’s been happening beneath the surface, so you can find clarity, balance, and a stronger sense of self.

Pause, reflect, reset

What issues I work with

I specialise in supporting people with workplace stress, academic pressures, career transitions, and the challenges of maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

  • Stress, burnout, and overwhelm

  • Academic pressure and perfectionism

  • Anxiety and panic attacks

  • Career and life transitions: career change, promotion, redundancy, retirement, quarter- or mid-life crisis

  • Workplace issues: team dynamics, bullying, mistakes at work 

  • Loss of direction, motivation or purpose

  • Impostor syndrome, low confidence and self-worth

  • Personal issues affecting your work or studies

Given that most of us spend much of our lives working or studying, and when pressures build, it can feel hard to admit how much we’re struggling.

Confiding in a boss, supervisor, or colleague isn’t always possible — so stress, anxiety, or burnout often get carried alone until they start to impact wellbeing, motivation, and relationships.

If you’re feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, or unsure how to move forward, counselling can give you space to make sense of what’s happening.

How counselling with me can help

Understanding of workplace and academic pressures
With two decades of working across sectors, I understand how much work and study can impact on your wellbeing. Long hours, heavy workloads, toxic environments and organisational change can all take their toll on your mental health. My counselling work has found me supporting professionals in variety of fields, as well as postgraduates and undergraduates, all of whom are dealing with varying pressures.

Support for your unique challenges Stress, anxiety, and burnout can affect us at any point in life. You might be a student juggling deadlines and perfectionism, a professional feeling depleted by constant demands, or someone at a crossroads facing uncertainty around promotion, career change or redundancy. I tailor my support to meet you where you are.

A calm space where you can be yourself
Counselling with me offers a calm, confidential space where you can slow down, reflect and explore what’s going on for you. Clients often tell me it’s the first time they’ve felt able to talk openly about the pressure they’re under, and the relief of being truly heard can itself be transformative.

Embedding lasting change
Many of the people I work with go on to regain a healthier work-life balance, reconnect with their values, find purpose and fulfilment and a clearer sense of direction. They often describe feeling more confident in setting boundaries, less overwhelmed by stress, and better able to navigate challenges both at work, in their studies and at home.

How I work

I am a talk therapist who seeks to understand you, your values and your unique circumstances. I aim to create an open atmosphere and build a relationship of trust where you feel able to express whatever is on your mind.

Our work is collaborative - I am not here to offer solutions but am keen to find ways to support and challenge you towards greater insight of your issues and help foster personal growth.

In our sessions, you’ll find space to:

  • Explore what’s been going on beneath the surface

  • Identify unhelpful patterns that may be holding you back

  • Develop healthier coping strategies

  • Reconnect with your values and priorities

  • Set clear, respectful boundaries

  • Gain perspective and clarity on your next steps

My approach is integrative, meaning I draw on different therapeutic models together with my own insights from diverse work settings, to meet your individual needs. This could mean looking at ways of managing your stress, mindfulness or using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) techniques to reframe your thought processes and help instil change.

You are always at the heart of the process and I will be led by you at a pace that feels right for you.

Where I work

Flexible sessions

I know how hard it can be to carve out time for yourself when your schedule already feels overloaded.

I offer online sessions throughout the week to clients anywhere in in the UK

I offer in-person sessions at

  • 8AKP in central Cambridge (CB2, opposite King’s College)

  • William Collyn Centre in Girton (CB3)

Evening and weekend appointments are also available, so you can access support when it works for you.

My fees

Given that you may spend a number of hours in therapy, it is important that you find the right counsellor for you. For that reason, I offer a free, no obligation call for prospective clients.

Please get in touch with me to set this up: sarah@confidocounselling.co.uk

Counselling sessions last 50 minutes

£70 for a 50 minute session in-person or online

£55 concessionary rate for students for a 50 minute session in-person or online

£390 single prepayment for 6 sessions