Helen Davenport-Peace ❋

psychotherapist

Relational psychotherapy for people navigating trauma, addiction, grief, disordered eating, anxiety and life transitions.

With specialist experience in

fertility, reproductive trauma, motherhood, and the maternal.

Helen Davenport-Peace ❋

psychotherapist

Relational psychotherapy for people navigating trauma, addiction, grief, disordered eating, anxiety, identity, and life transitions.

With specialist experience in fertility, reproductive trauma, motherhood, and the maternal.

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Online and in person therapy, Manchester UK

Online and in person therapy, Manchester UK

how I work

I work relationally, which means we’ll be interested in what’s happening now, but also in the patterns that have built up over time: how you cope, how you protect yourself, how you relate to others, and how you speak to yourself when things feel hard (or good!).

Therapy with me is thoughtful and co-created. I won’t rush you towards a neat answer, but I will try to help you make sense of what’s been challenging, what’s being repeated, or aspects that are proving difficult to understand on your own.

working together

areas I support

  • Therapy can be a place for insight, steadiness, repair and change.

    My work holds both the everyday and the deeply complex: the patterns we live within, the relationships that shape us, the bodies we inhabit, and the life chapters that ask a lot from us.

  • Including fertility struggles, pregnancy loss, reproductive trauma, IVF, pregnancy after loss, long-awaited pregnancy, ambivalence around trying to conceive, donor conception, adoption, surrogacy and childfree living.

  • Including trauma, difficult relational experiences, anxiety, emotional overwhelm, self-criticism, hypervigilance, and patterns that feel difficult to shift.

  • Including identity shifts, depletion, rage, ambivalence, loss of self, changing relationships, and the emotional realities that can exist alongside love and care.

  • Including addiction, compulsive patterns, emotional survival strategies, shame, numbing, and ways of coping that may once have been protective but no longer feel sustainable.

  • including disordered eating, body relationships, perfectionism, control, shame, and the ways self-worth can become tied to appearance, performance, or being “good”.

  • including grief, relationship endings, uncertainty, questions of identity, and periods of transition such as peri/menopause and career change.