Valerie Gage
Hello, 👋🏾 I’m Valerie. I’m glad you’ve found your way here. I’m a BACP Accredited Psychotherapist, a qualified Trauma Therapist, and I’m currently in the final year of training in Somatic Experiencing®.
If any part of this feels familiar, it doesn’t mean you’re doing life “wrong.” It often means you’ve been holding far more than anyone realised — and doing it with a kind of quiet strength that has come at a cost.
My work is informed by:
• over a decade of therapeutic experience
• qualification as a trauma therapist
• advanced Somatic Experiencing® training
• relational and embodied psychotherapy
• a deep understanding of long-term overwhelm, grief, and early emotional
and physiological patterns
I support adults navigating:
• anxiety and long-term stress
• trauma and complex trauma
• grief and long-held sorrow
• dissociation or feeling “far away” inside
• high-functioning exhaustion
• relational patterns shaped by early life
• emotional overwhelm that doesn’t always show externally
If you’re looking for a therapist who understands high-functioning survival, long-term holding, or the quieter ways people disappear inside themselves to cope, I’d be glad to walk alongside you.
Just come as you are, and I’ll meet you there.
Online and/or telephone appointments are available.