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Therapy Designed to Nurture Your Nature

Therapy Designed to Nurture Your Nature

Supporting people experiencing mental health challenges, with a particular interest in working with people who relate to experiences of high sensitivity and neurodiversity. If you often feel overwhelmed, misunderstood, or hard on yourself, appointments can offer a space to better understand your experiences and discover what supports you. Our work together is tailored to you, meeting you where you are and nurturing the ways that make you uniquely you.

Supporting people experiencing mental health challenges, with a particular interest in working with people who relate to experiences of high sensitivity and neurodiversity. If you often feel overwhelmed, misunderstood, or hard on yourself, therapy can offer a space to better understand your experiences and discover what supports you. Our work together is tailored to you, meeting you where you are and nurturing the ways that make you uniquely you.



Sometimes people can feel too much and not enough, all at once.

People can spend years being told they are too sensitive, too much, or too easily overwhelmed. People can also experience exhaustion from masking, from managing everyone else's needs before their own, or from a mind that will not stop overthinking long after the moment has passed.

This often happens because the world was not built with sensitive or neurodivergent nervous systems in mind. Therefore, people can absorb messages about needing to toughen up, fit in, or manage better and those messages may not be a true reflection of what is needed.

Here, the starting point is different. We work together as a team, at your pace, to understand what is going on for you, rather than rushing to ‘fix’ something, add something, or just ‘push through’ something. From there, we identify your needs and create practices that genuinely fit your nervous system and your life.



Support that meets you where you are

Explore the ways you can begin your supportive journey.

General Mental Health Support

For anyone navigating general mental health concerns. We start by understanding what is going on for you, then explore tailored, practical strategies together.

Sessions for the Sensitive and Neurodivergent

For those navigating sensitivity, overwhelm, burnout, masking or communication differences. This is a special area of interest.

Sessions for the Inner Critic

For anyone whose inner voice is harder on them than they would ever be on someone else. We work toward a kinder relationship with yourself.


Created from sensitivity and with sensitive people in mind

Understood first. Supported always.

  • I'm sensitive myself, so this work comes from lived experience, as well as training and clinical experience.

  • Sessions are paced around your nervous system and comfort levels, not a generalised timeframe.

  • You are treated as an active partner in the work, rather than a symptom that need to be managed.

Julie McLachlan, psychologist, in a calm and quiet space

Meet Julie

I support people with mental health challenges, with a particular focus on sensitive and neurodivergent adults, in private practice.

I work from my own lived experience of sensitivity, alongside what I have seen and learned supporting clients, to offer a genuinely understanding and relational approach.

If you have felt too much, too different, you are welcome here.



Support tailored to what you are experiencing

A person’s experiences are often connected, and a supportive pathway should reflect that.

My approach looks at the full picture including your thinking, emotional and lifestyle patterns so we can understand what your system is asking for.

Focus areas include:

  • Feeling overwhelmed, sensitive or easily impacted by your environment

  • Burnout, meltdown or shutdown from sustained overwhelm

  • Masking, or exhaustion from trying to fit in

  • A harsh inner critic and ongoing self-judgement

  • Relational or communication challenges, and feeling misunderstood

  • Difficulty managing energy levels and sensory input

  • General mental health challenges and support with change


You do not have to work this out alone

If any of this feels familiar, reaching out is a good place to start. There is no pressure and no assumption about what you need, only a conversation about what might help.