Lisa Rondeaux Muir

I currently have availability for online counselling sessions Monday to Thursday inclusive. I understand that life can be busy, so I try to offer flexibility with appointment times where possible to support different schedules and needs.

Secure online or telephone sessions provide a confidential and comfortable space to explore whatever may be bringing you to therapy. If you would like to discuss availability or find a suitable time, please feel free to get in touch.

Any upcoming periods of leave will always be communicated in advance.

I founded Safe Harbour Therapy because I wanted to create a calm, trauma informed space for adults affected by childhood difficulties, including childhood sexual abuse.  I also wanted to foster greater understanding around trauma responses and help people understand that these reactions are completely natural responses to unnatural circumstances.  I work with clients affected by domestic violence, narcissistic abuse, emotional abuse, and sexual violence who may be experiencing anxiety, low self-worth, perfectionism, people-pleasing, OCD, depression, and the ongoing effects of living in survival mode.

Many of these responses develop through a nervous system that has learned to stay alert for danger, often long after the threat has passed. Together, we gently make sense of these patterns with compassion rather than criticism, helping you understand that your reactions are survival responses, not personal failings.

My approach is relational, grounded, and paced around your individual needs. I believe therapy should feel emotionally safe, steady, and containing, particularly for those who have experienced coercion, invalidation, or repeated harm.

I offer online sessions via secure video or telephone, providing a confidential and supportive space where clients can begin to feel safer within themselves, reduce shame, build emotional resilience, and develop a greater sense of calm and self-understanding.

At Safe Harbour Therapy, you do not need to know where to begin. We begin wherever you are. I offer a safe, compassionate, and non-judgmental space where we can gently make sense of the thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and the physical sensations that often accompany repeated harm, abuse, or invalidation.

My approach is integrative with a strong person centred foundation. Sessions are collaborative, non-directive, and paced around what feels manageable for you. If you become overwhelmed, we slow down and ground. If you are not ready to share, we work patiently. If your body communicates distress, we listen.

Grounding is an important part of the way I work. Together, we explore grounding techniques which feel safe, supportive, and comfortable for you, helping to build emotional regulation, stability, and resilience over time. Therapy is about creating enough safety and support for you to move towards healing, self-understanding, and reach your full potential at a pace that feels right for you.

Safe Harbour Therapy offers a calm, trauma-informed space for adults who have experienced childhood trauma, childhood sexual abuse, domestic violence, narcissistic abuse, emotional abuse, sexual violence, or other experiences which continue to affect emotional wellbeing or cause emotional distress.

Survival responses, or what we’d commonly label trauma does not always show up in the ways we’d expect. Many survivors learn to push the pain and distress they experience down to continue functioning day to day. People often walk around completely unaware that they are experiencing the involuntary effects of unprocessed trauma, which can become trapped in the body. Over time, that unprocessed pain can appear as anxiety, people pleasing, difficulty setting boundaries, perfectionism, overworking, emotional overwhelm, a persistent feeling of never being “good enough”, relationship difficulties or complete emotional shutdown. These responses are often linked to a nervous system shaped by survival and always on the lookout for a threat or danger.

I offer a free 30-minute consultation to help us decide whether we feel like the right therapeutic fit for one another. During this session, we can explore what has brought you to therapy, what you hope to gain from the process, and how we might work together moving forward should we both feel the relationship feels supportive and appropriate for your needs.