About Me

My name is Natalie O'Riordan I am a psychotherapist working with adults who are experiencing anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, complex family dynamics, and the effects of difficult or painful earlier experiences and traumatic events

My work is based on the belief that many emotional difficulties make sense when understood in context. Behaviours that feel frustrating, confusing, or self-defeating often developed for a reason. They may have once helped you cope, protect yourself, or manage difficult relationships. Therapy creates space to understand these behaviours properly and begin changing the ones that no longer serve you.

My professional background includes nearly 20 years of experience across mental health services. This has included assessing people for psychological treatment and treatment pathways, working with both common and more complex psychiatric presentations. I also have experience navigating healthcare systems, including the NHS, particularly where people have more complicated needs.

 I aim to provide treatment that is thoughtful, direct, and grounded. The work is collaborative. We look at what is happening now, what may have shaped it, and what needs to change. This may involve exploring our childhoods and the relationships with our early caregivers, past traumas, attachment patterns, family relationships, identity, boundaries, emotional regulation and the way you relate to yourself and others.

For people experiencing discrimination or feeling different

Some people move through the world having parts of who they are misunderstood, questioned, minimised, or treated as outside the norm. This may relate to race, culture, ethnicity, religion, language, class, disability, neurodivergence, gender, sexuality, age, migration history, or other aspects of identity and lived experience.

These experiences can involve masking, code switching, being expected to explain yourself, being treated as different, or encountering assumptions and systemic bias. They are not simply personal difficulties. They can affect how safe it feels to speak openly or trust other people especially when accessing  NHS, police and other public services

Therapy should not become another place where these realities are ignored or reduced. Where relevant, I aim to understand your experiences within the wider social, cultural, and relational contexts that shape them.



You are welcome to arrange a complimentary fifteen-minute phone consultation. This gives you the opportunity to ask questions, get a sense of how I work, and decide whether it feels like the right fit.

If you choose to proceed, you will receive a confirmation email with practical details, including session times, fees, and information about attending your appointment.