About Me
I’m Georgina Sturmer, a UK-based, BACP-accredited counsellor, supervisor and lecturer. I offer attachment-based online therapy to women across the UK.
I specialise in anxiety, emotional overwhelm, relationship difficulties, loss and life transitions.
Alongside this, I also work with couples, and supervise other therapists.
I work with women who often appear to be coping on the outside, but feel under pressure or self-critical beneath the surface.
I don’t see this as something to fix. I see it as something worth understanding.
My Approach
There’s a lot of research about what makes counselling helpful, and it consistently points to the same conclusion: the most important part of therapy isn’t the specific technique or model. It’s the relationship.
Feeling able to trust your counsellor.
Feeling safe enough to speak honestly.
Feeling understood rather than analysed.
That’s what allows therapy to become meaningful.
My work is attachment-based and integrative. I’m interested in how people became who they are, and how earlier experiences continue to shape the way they feel, think and relate now.
Rather than starting with labels or diagnoses, we pay attention to patterns. Where they came from. What they’ve helped with. And why they may no longer be serving you in the same way.
My own route into counselling wasn’t about wanting to fix people or offer quick answers. It grew from a long-standing interest in emotional patterns, relationships, and the ways people learn to cope long before they have words for what’s happening.
Training as a counsellor gave structure and depth to that curiosity, and confirmed something I’d already sensed: that meaningful change happens when people feel understood rather than judged, and when there’s space to slow things down and think properly.
That understanding continues to shape how I work today.
Working together
I work in a calm, thoughtful way. I won’t tell you what to do, but I won’t sit silently either. I’m an engaged, responsive therapist. I’ll offer questions, reflections and, where it feels helpful, practical ways of supporting yourself outside the session.
Therapy is a space where you can slow things down, think out loud, and explore what’s happening beneath the surface. Sometimes that means sitting with uncertainty. Sometimes it means gently joining the dots between past and present.
The work is collaborative. I don’t see myself as the expert on you. My role is to help you make sense of things in a way that feels thoughtful, grounded and genuinely useful.
Many people find that this understanding begins to influence everyday life — feeling less driven by anxiety or self-criticism, and more able to pause, reflect and choose how they respond.