Dr Sade Aisha Sowemimo
Specialist psychological assessment and therapy for complex presentations including trauma, personality difficulties and emotional regulation.
HCPC-registered forensic psychologist with experience across secure forensic services, specialist personality disorder services and community settings.
Areas I Can Help With
Support for people experiencing long-standing emotional difficulties, painful relationship patterns, trauma-related distress, or a sense of feeling stuck.
Trauma & PTSD
Support with the lasting impact of traumatic experiences, including complex trauma, PTSD, emotional overwhelm and difficulties feeling safe or settled.
Anxiety, Overthinking & Emotional Overwhelm
Work around anxiety, persistent worry, racing thoughts and intense emotional states that can leave day-to-day life feeling exhausting or hard to manage.
Depression & Feeling Stuck
Support with low mood, hopelessness, disconnection or a sense of being caught in patterns that no longer feel manageable, meaningful or sustainable.
Relationship Patterns & Attachment Difficulties
Exploring recurring difficulties in closeness, trust, conflict, boundaries or connection, including patterns that may have roots in earlier relationships.
Shame, Self-Criticism & Perfectionism
Support with harsh self-judgement, pressure to cope alone, chronic inadequacy or patterns of over-control that can lead to emotional loneliness and burnout.
Neurodiversity, Identity & Complex Difficulties
A thoughtful, formulation-led space for complex or overlapping difficulties, including neurodivergence, identity-related questions and experiences that feel hard to put into words.
A thoughtful, specialist way of working
Experienced, formulation-led psychological work
I am a HCPC-registered Forensic Psychologist and accredited Cognitive Analytic Therapist with over 10 years’ experience working across forensic, NHS and specialist mental health settings.
My work focuses on supporting people who feel stuck in repeating patterns in relationships, sense of self and emotional life, particularly where difficulties are long-standing or rooted in earlier experiences.
I have experience working with developmental trauma, attachment difficulties, neurodiversity and complex psychological presentations, alongside specialist assessment and consultation work.
Read more about my approach →How I work
Warm, collaborative and thoughtful work focused on building a shared understanding of the patterns shaping your difficulties.
Formulation-led therapy drawing from Cognitive Analytic Therapy, Compassion Focused Therapy and trauma-focused approaches including EMDR.
A neuro-affirming, trauma-informed approach that holds complexity with care, structure and respect.
A focus on meaningful and sustainable change, rather than simply managing symptoms.
Ways of working together
Support can be shaped around the nature of the difficulty, the goals of the work, and the kind of psychological input that feels most helpful.
Individual Therapy
A space to pause, reflect and begin making sense of patterns in your relationships, emotions and ways of coping. Therapy focuses on understanding how these patterns developed, how they continue in the present, and what meaningful change might look like.
Understanding Patterns in Work and Relationships
A focused, formulation-led space to understand the patterns you find yourself pulled into, particularly in relationships, professional roles and your sense of self. Especially helpful if the same dynamics keep repeating and you want a deeper level of understanding, not just symptom relief.
Clinical Supervision & Consultation
Reflective, formulation-led support for psychologists, therapists, clinicians and teams working with complexity. This may involve supervision, case consultation, reflective practice or team support, offered as one-off input or on an ongoing basis.
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HCPC-registered Forensic Psychologist