PSYCHOTHERAPY & CLINICAL HYPNOTHERAPY
LEEDS & ONLINE ACROSS THE UK
For the woman
behind the
strong one.
Therapy for the pressure to achieve, be perfect and keep coping on your own.
Fine on the outside.
Exhausted on the inside.
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Achievement
You reach the goal, then move the finish line. There is always another way you should be doing better.
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Self-abandonment
You have lost touch with what you truly want and the parts of yourself that feel most authentic.
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Perfectionism
You scrutinise how you look, how you perform or how you come across. Getting it right rarely brings lasting relief.
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Burnout
Even when you are not chasing the next achievement, simply getting through the day can feel exhausting.
You became the strong one
for a reason.
Being capable, accomplished or self-sufficient may once have helped you feel accepted, secure or in control. Those ways of coping can stay with you long after the circumstances have changed.
Therapy offers space to understand what these patterns have protected, what they cost you now and what you want to make room for.
I'm Dorota.
I work with women who have learned to achieve, adapt or cope without showing how much it takes. The pressure can be hard to explain when your life looks successful from the outside. My own path into this work began with a similar contrast: appearing capable and composed while privately feeling exhausted and disconnected from myself. I know how difficult it can be to question the very strategies that once helped you feel safe.
My own healing began when I stopped trying to be the strong one and started listening more honestly to what I needed. That experience continues to shape my belief in therapy that honours both professional knowledge and the deeply human experience of being understood. I offer a relationship where we can be curious about what you carry and honest about what feels difficult. You don’t have to arrive with the right words.
The support that fits you.
Choose the support that fits your needs, your circumstances and the space you want to make for this work.
Journeys
Weekly therapy with agreed support between sessions. Foundation and Rewiring offer two ways to give the work time and continuity.
3 or 6 months · Weekly 75-minute sessions
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Individual Sessions
Psychotherapy and clinical hypnotherapy shaped around what you bring, with space to find a pace together.
50 or 75 minutes · Leeds & online
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Clinical Supervision
A warm, relational space for your clinical work and the person you are within it. For trainee and qualified practitioners.
Online · English or Polish
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The Embodied
Secure Self Method.
An integrative pathway informed by attachment theory, psychotherapy, parts work, somatic regulation and clinical hypnotherapy. The elements draw on established therapeutic approaches; the five-phase framework itself is my own.
Safety and regulation
Grounding, co-regulation and room for the nervous system to settle.
Reprogramming and reparenting
Inner-child work, visualisation and appropriate hypnotherapy techniques.
Expansion and wholeness
More self-trust, agency and freedom to live as yourself.
Connection and compassion
A more secure, kinder relationship with your younger and protective parts.
Integration and embodiment
Turning fresh understanding into boundaries, choices and everyday practice.
Why Women Choose This Work
Women choose this work because it offers depth without overwhelm and guidance without pressure.
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Exclusivity - limited number of clients.
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Discretion - full confidentiality.
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Depth - trauma-informed + neuroscience.
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Transformation - identity-level shifts
Client experiences that feel lived in.
"After years of having low self esteem, low self belief and low confidence thinking therapy would never help, along came Dorota and proved me wrong. She has saved my soul and I cannot thank her enough for the new lease of life she has given me."
- Jessica
Self-esteem, confidence and identity
"Having tried other therapists, CBT experts and life coaches I made no improvements until I worked with Dorota. I am a different person from who I was a year ago and I have her to thank for that."
- Mia
Transformation after previous therapy hadn't worked
“I now understand and accept myself and my needs, have healthier relationships and am able to set boundaries and make better choices as a result.”
- Lianne
Childhood wounds, relationships, boundaries
A softer, steadier way of living.
Joy
Pleasure and enjoyment that can matter without being earned first.
Self-trust
Knowing what you feel and need, then giving it weight in your choices.
Presence
Less time assessing how you are doing. More room to be in the experience you are having.
Clarity
Recognising what is yours to choose, what you need and what no longer fits.
Self-loyalty
Staying on your own side when achievement, approval or perfection pulls you away from what you need.
Peace
More inner ease when there is nothing to prove and no task asking to be completed.
Regulated emotions
More capacity to stay with what you feel and choose how to respond.
Confidence
A steadier sense of worth that can stay with you when things are imperfect.
Who This Work Is For
This work is for emotionally intelligent women seeking depth and lasting change.
You may recognise yourself if you…
✔ Feel successful on the outside, but secretly exhausted inside.
✔ Keep striving, giving and performing, yet rarely feel fulfilled.
✔ Struggle to rest, say no or feel genuinely safe in your body.
✔ Have done therapy or coaching before, but long for deeper change.
✔ Are ready to invest time, energy and presence in true transformation.
This is not for those seeking a quick fix.
It’s for women ready to meet themselves fully with compassion, honesty and courage.
A few things you may be wondering.
My Location
Based in central Leeds, I offer in-person psychotherapy and hypnotherapy, with most work taking place online across the UK (including York and Harrogate).
Online sessions are delivered via secure video call.
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