Counsellor
Cher Brothers
NCPS #NCS22-02639
She/her
You are not broken, lazy, or too much. You are a deeply resilient person whose nervous system is exhausted — and you don't have to carry that weight alone.
WHO I help
For adults navigating late-identified neurodivergence — and parents of anxious, struggling young people.
Cher works with two groups who are often bound by the same invisible thread: adults who have only recently discovered they are neurodivergent, and parents trying to support an anxious or vulnerable child through a world that wasn't designed for either of them.
For her adult clients, the realisation often comes after years of working harder than everyone else just to keep up — and still wondering why it feels so much more difficult. Old coping mechanisms have stopped working. Executive overload, decision paralysis, and burnout have become the daily reality.
The physical signs are often there too: somatic fatigue that sleep can't fix, a jaw that's always clenched, shoulders permanently braced. By mid-afternoon, ordinary inputs — noise, texture, transitions — have become genuinely painful.
They've spent a lifetime suppressing who they are to survive environments that didn't fit them. The exhaustion that comes from that is profound.
how i work
The first proper exhale after holding your breath all day.
Cher describes working with her as the moment the pressure to perform completely evaporates. There's no need for eye contact if it doesn't come naturally, no requirement to organise thoughts into neat sentences, no performing. The space is explicitly built for you to let your shoulders drop.
She works with EMDR, trauma-informed approaches, and creative externalisation tools alongside person-centred and integrative methods. Her own lived experience of anxiety, burnout, trauma, and the loss of her best friend to suicide means she's not working from theory alone.
The work moves in stages: first stabilising the nervous system and building practical tools; then processing the core blockages; then watching what becomes possible when the energy that was going into survival is freed up for something else.
You haven't failed at life. You've been trying to survive an unmanageable environment with a nervous system that has run out of road.
It's nice to meet you!
Dog walks. Travel. A floordrobe she has fully accepted.
Cher came to this work through her own journey with chronic anxiety, past trauma, and the devastating loss of her best friend to suicide. Her practice isn't built on clinical textbooks alone — it's rooted in the real, heavy weight of lived experience.
Dog walks and travel restore her. Both offer the combination of movement, novelty, and presence that works for her particular kind of brain.
Her friends say she could write a book about her life. They're probably right. She also cannot put clothes away — the floordrobe is real, it has always been real, and she has stopped fighting it.
Specialisms
Anxiety
Depression
Trauma & PTSD
Stress & burnout
Neurodivergence
Low self-worth
Session information
£65–£80
In-person and online
creativechangecounselling.com/home
cher@creativechangecounselling.com
