Counselling support in Cambridge

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

Contact: sarah@confidocounselling.co.uk to discuss your counselling needs

Life can sometimes feel relentlessly demanding. Work, study, or a period of change can leave you feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure of yourself. And finding time to think through your issues and find a way forward can be challenging.

Counselling offers a calm, confidential space to pause and reflect and reset. Together, we can gently explore what’s been happening beneath the surface, helping you make sense of the pressures you’re carrying so that you can regain perspective, balance and self-trust.

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I’m Sarah, a Cambridge-based, BACP-registered counsellor with a focus on workplace and academic wellbeing and supporting people through life and career changes. I work with adults of all ages and offer a thoughtful, compassionate approach to sessions, which are tailored to your unique needs.

Pause, reflect, reset

Issues I work with

I support clients with a wide range of issues and have a particular interest in:

  • Stress, burnout, and overwhelm

  • Academic pressure and perfectionism

  • Anxiety, panic attacks and overthinking

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

  • Career transitions: career change, promotion, redundancy, retirement

  • Life transitions: parenthood, quarter- or mid-life crisis, empty nest syndrome, relationship evolutions and endings

  • Loss of direction, motivation or purpose

  • Impostor syndrome, low confidence and self-worth

  • Personal issues affecting your work or studies

How counselling with me can help

Understanding the pressures of work, life and study

Long hours, heavy workloads, difficult workplace cultures and changing life circumstances can gradually erode both mental health and self-esteem. Having worked across a range of sectors and navigated significant transitions in my own life, I understand how deeply these pressures can affect wellbeing. In my counselling practice, I have supported professionals from many different industries, as well as students, each facing their own unique demands and expectations.

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, taking into account your individual circumstances, goals and concerns.

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 people I work with go on to develop a healthier relationship with work and study, reconnect with their values, and gain a clearer sense of purpose and direction. They often describe feeling more confident in setting boundaries, less overwhelmed by stress, and better equipped to navigate challenges at work, in their studies and in their personal lives.

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, working with 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 the world.

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