Therapy for Childhood Trauma, Low Self-esteem & Difficult Relationships|Harrogate & Online
Mina Murat Baldwin (MBACP, MSc, PGDip)
Not just a space to talk;
a space to change
You may be living with anxiety that won't quiet, a low mood that won't lift, or relationships that keep hitting the same wall.
Perhaps a difficult childhood is still shaping how you see yourself and the world or becoming a parent has surfaced something unexpected.
Whatever it is, it did not come from nowhere, and with the right support, it could be understood and changed.
You are in the right place.
This is different
I am not a therapist who only listens and nods through the session.
I'm Mina — an integrative relational psychotherapist and counsellor, specialising in relationship difficulties, low self-esteem, and childhood trauma.
I am one of the few therapists with NHS experience and published academic research on childhood trauma, and autism. I am also one of the few therapists who will actually actively work alongside you in sessions instead of nodding through the session in silence.
Many people who come to me have already tried talking about it. They felt heard for a while. But something still hadn't shifted. There is a reason for that.
Talking about a problem is not the same as understanding it, and understanding it is not the same as changing it.
You've probably been heard before by a therapist, a friend, your own internal monologue at 2am.
Being heard hasn't been the problem.
Sessions with me are different because listening is where we begin — not where we stay.
I'm an active participant in your therapy, not a silent witness to it:
I stay curious about the things you may have accepted as “just how things are” even if they don’t feel right.
I name the patterns that have been normalised,
and gently challenge the things you learned to gloss over — because that's usually where the real work is.
You leave sessions with something real: a connection you hadn't made before, a pattern named clearly,
a shift, however small, in how you see yourself or what's been holding you back.
This is therapy where, over time and with your collaboration, the anxiety can quieten,
the patterns can shift, and the version of yourself you came here to find can start to emerge.
Does any of this sound familiar?
You realise you attract the same kind of relationship, over and over, in different packaging: the one who needs rescuing, the one who keeps you at arm's length, the one who makes you feel like you are always slightly too much, or never quite enough. You have ended relationships and somehow the same pattern finds you.
There is an anxiety that follows you everywhere — into decisions, conversations, into the middle of the night. A voice that says you are too much, or not enough, or both at once. You say yes when you mean no. You apologise for things that weren't your fault. You give and give — and still go to bed feeling like you got it wrong. You know a boundary needs to be set but you just don't know how — or the guilt arrives before the words do.
Maybe love was complicated growing up. You learned early to make yourself small, manage other people's feelings, keep the peace or disappear. And those dynamics are still showing up — in your relationships, your parenting, your working life.
You might have tried to push through it. Something still hasn't shifted.
Relationship difficulties, anxiety, low self-esteem and poor boundaries do not exist in isolation. They have a history. When that history is properly understood, change can begin in not just how you cope, but how you relate, how you see yourself, and how you move forward.
Patterns that have repeated for decades can shift. Anxiety that has been with you since childhood can quieten.
You are in the right place.
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Whatever has brought you here, you don't have to have the words for it yet. You don't have to be sure. Reaching out is enough.
I would love to hear from you.