Counsellor
Naomi Brookes
BACP 412203
She/her
You're not alone. I'm here to walk with you and help you find a way through — one step at a time.
WHO I help
For people who hold everything together for everyone else — and have nothing left for themselves.
Naomi works with adults who are feeling too heavy to carry alone: grief, burnout, life transitions, the weight of always showing up for others while quietly running on empty.
They're often the ones everyone else sees as having it together. They say yes. They show up. They support. Inside, they know the disconnect — they feel the tension, the desire to shout no, the longing for someone to look after them for a change. Their emotions feel either chaotic or completely numb.
The basics can feel hard — getting out of bed, showering, getting through work. They're snappy with the people they care about, or distant and withdrawn. And underneath it all, there's often something they haven't been able to properly say to anyone.
You're probably the one supporting everyone else. Inside, you know there's a disconnect — and a part of you that's longing to be heard.
how i work
Warm, curious, and genuinely interested in your whole story.
Naomi brings warmth, acceptance, and a genuine desire to understand. Clients regularly tell her they feel safe enough to share things they've never told anyone — not because she pushed, but because the space simply held it.
She draws on person-centred, integrative, ecotherapy, and relational approaches. The first session is about orientation — understanding how things might unfold, what kind of space it is. Then, gently, the real work begins.
Over time, people start to feel less isolated. Things that felt impossible begin to ease. And the gift Naomi wants to pass on — the one she found herself after years of feeling lost and alone — is helping people realise they are not broken, not wrong, not bad. Just human, and worth hearing.
Bad language and big emotions are allowed here. That's how you know it's a real space.
It's nice to meet you!
Metal and rock. Leaf jewellery. Bluebell woods. Very specific joys.
Naomi came to counselling after some genuinely bad counselling experiences — including being told she was too much and needed a priest. She eventually found someone who truly listened, and it changed everything. She wanted to give that gift to others.
She processes the emotions she carries from her work by listening to — and bopping along to — a lot of metal and rock. She makes jewellery from leaves and grows a whimsical garden. Walking and cycling through East Devon's bluebell woods and heathland brings her deep peace. Fiction, she says, is her meditation.
Her friends would say she swears a lot, has a very dark worldview, a childish sense of awe in nature, and strong opinions about dystopian literature. She is constitutionally unable to hold a note — which does not stop her.
Specialisms
Anxiety
Depression
Grief & loss
Stress & burnout
Low self-worth
Identity
Life transitions
Neurodivergence
Perimenopause
Session information
£50–£65
In-person and online
www.naomibrookescounselling.org.uk
naomibrookescounselling@gmail.com
