Build understanding, find clarity and create lasting change.
Compassionate, evidence-based CBT and EMDR therapy for adults experiencing anxiety, stress, burnout, trauma, low mood and other life challenges.
Drawing on a range of therapeutic approaches, tailored to you, your needs and your goals.
Helping you break vicious cycles, gain clarity and come back to you.
Sometimes anxiety, low mood, stress or exhaustion can persist, even when you’re doing everything you can to feel better. You may be holding everything together on the outside while feeling overwhelmed, disconnected or simply not quite yourself.
There may not be one clear reason why. Therapy offers a space to slow down, make sense of what’s going on and work towards greater self-understanding, confidence and calm.
I aim to provide a therapeutic space to help you work through the things that are keeping you stuck and support you to build understanding, confidence and a sense of calm.
Sound Familiar?
Overwhelmed
People-pleasing
Successful on paper, yet feel like you’re barely keeping your head above water
Exhausted and always saying yes when you actually mean no
Disconnected
Unfulfilled
Peacekeeper
You hate conflict and try to avoid it wherever and whenever possible
Guilty for not feeling happier - because your life is so good, so why isn’t it enough?
Separated from your body, friendships or relationships and from yourself
Perfectionist
Lost
You hold high standards for yourself, and are critical of your mistakes
Quietly unsure where you fit into the world, even when things look right from the outside
Therapy is built around you - not a protocol
Individual Psychological Therapy
I work with inidividuals who are exhausted from holding it all together and are ready to understand what is really going on beneath the surface.
Drawing on CBT, EMDR, compassion focused and somatic based approaches, we’ll work together to process what needs processing and help you reconnect with you who are beyond the overwhelm and expectations from others.
Support for Childfree Living
Living childfree can feel invisible. There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that builds beneath a life you’ve consciously and intentionally chosen. One that’s rarely named, and even more rarely understood. When the world around you seems to be living a completely different chapter, disconnection can creep in eve when life is genuinely good. That tension is real and it deserves proper space.
Dealing with Burnout and Overwhelm
I offer support to individuals who are quietly wondering why life feels harder than it looks - not because anything is wrong with their choices, but because the world rarely reflects them back.
If you’re navigating burnout, overwhelm or a deep sense of disconnection, Sawya might be the right space for you.
Sawya comes from the Cornish word meaning ‘to heal’ - wild, grounded, quietly resilient.
Hi, I’m Jo
I am a BABCP accredited Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, EMDR therapist, clinical supervisor and the founder of Sawya Mind and Body.
I started Sawya Mind and Body because I believe there is a particular kind of exhaustion that some individuals carry - expectations to get on with it, constantly keeping others happy, avoiding conflict - an experience that is rarely understood, especially when it all looks good on the outside!
I know that experience that’s why I do this work!
How I can help
Sawya provides a space for individuals whose experience has been talked over, questioned or minimised for too long.
My clinical focus is trauma, anxiety, low mood and stress. I’m trained in CBT, EMDR, CPT, ACT, and compassion focused therapy.
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CBT works through thoughts, identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and gradually replacing them with more balanced, realistic ones.
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EMDR process through memory. It uses bilateral stimulation to help the brain reprocess distressing memories so they lose their emotional charge.
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Helps you develop a healthier relationship with difficult thoughts and feelings, while focusing on what matters most to you. It supports greater flexibility, self-awareness and meaningful change.
Healing often begins with awareness. Therapy offers a space to slow down, make sense of your experiences, reconnect with yourself, and move forward in a way that feels meaningful to you
If you’re ready to feel calmer, more grounded, and more like yourself again…
Together, we work on making sense of your story and understanding what you need to move forward
Experience a space where you can explore your difficulties and understand what you need to move forward.
Arrange a free 15-minute discovery call - no pressure, no commitment. Just a conversation to see if this feels like the right space for you.
