Valerie Gage

I am currently offering supervision online, via zoom. Limited availability for face-to-face soon. 

I also welcome organisational enquiries - please get in touch to discuss your requirements and my fees. 

I offer supervision to individuals and groups and my experience enables me to supervise you within the context of your practice.

My supervision is primarily based on person centred principles, focusing on the therapeutic conditions and the client/therapist relationship.

I aim to help you develop presence in your relationships with clients, to become open to your own experiencing in response to client material, and develop your confidence and capacity to work with clients at depth.

All enquires welcome!

For Counsellors and Psychotherapists in training, please consult your training provider regarding contract requirements and supervision reports 

I offer weekly one-to-one psychotherapy and couples therapy online, with a limited number of in-person appointments available in Islington, London.

I’m recognised by AXA PPP, Aviva, and Cigna, and also work privately with self-funding clients. You’re welcome to check your eligibility when we arrange an initial consultation.

I also welcome media and organisational enquiries. Please feel free to get in touch to discuss your needs and my professional rate.

Hello, 

I’m Valerie Gage, a Trauma Therapist and Psychotherapist.

Many of the people I work with look steady on the outside but carry something quietly unresolved on the inside. They may have coped for years, supported others, stayed functional — while something in the body never fully found space.

The people I work with are often emotionally aware, highly capable in their lives, and have usually tried therapy before. What brings them here is not a lack of insight, but a sense that something deeper has remained untouched — a tiredness, a distance, or a feeling of being far from themselves despite “doing the work.”

You may name your experience as trauma — relational, developmental, historical, or sudden. Or you may not use that language at all, only knowing that something has been carried for a long time.

My approach is relational and somatic. We listen together to how your nervous system has learned to cope, protect, and stay functional over time — often without your conscious choice.

This is not fast or directive work. We move at a pace your body can trust.

I work with individuals navigating complex trauma, emotional shutdown, long-term grief, and quiet overwhelm, and who are able to commit to consistent weekly therapy.

I also work with couples who want to slow things down and attend carefully to patterns of trust, distance, and strain that have built up over time. Couples sessions are offered as a focused, steady piece of work and are best suited to those able to commit both time and presence to the process.

My practice offers particular care for:

Those impacted by relational or sexual trauma

People who grew up needing to stay strong or composed

Those grieving what never had space to be named — whether a person, a self, or a story that never unfolded

I often work with people who have felt unseen or misunderstood in other spaces — not because they were resistant, but because their bodies learned to survive by staying contained.

This is a steady, reflective space. There is room for silence, for noticing, and for understanding how your system has been holding for longer than it needed to.

A note on beginnings

Not everyone who finds their way here is ready for ongoing therapy.

Alongside weekly work, I offer a one-off Somatic Orientation Consultation. This is not therapy and not an assessment. It is a single, contained conversation where we listen together to how your body has learned to cope, hold, or stay functional over time, and gently name what is present — without trying to change it.

For some, this conversation stands complete on its own. For others, it helps clarify what kind of support feels right. There is no expectation that it leads anywhere.

This is a separate, extended session and is priced differently from ongoing therapy.

The first session is a gentle landing.

You don’t need to explain everything. You don’t need to know what to say. We take time to arrive.

You might share what brings you here — or what hasn’t yet had space to be spoken. You might not have many words at all.

I’ll ask a few orienting questions and listen carefully — not only to what you say, but to how your body carries your experience. We may begin to notice how your system protects you, and where it has been holding for too long.

There is no pressure to go deep right away. We stay with what feels safe enough.

Sessions are 50 minutes and take place online or in person in Islington (subject to availability).

You don’t need to prepare. Just come as you are.