Therapy for Childhood Trauma, Relational Difficulties &
Low Self-Confidence | Harrogate & Online
Mina Murat Baldwin (MBACP, MSc, PGDip)
This Is Your Space
Therapy sessions should feel like the one place you don't have to manage anything: not your words, not the other person's reaction, not how you come across.
Just an honest conversation with someone who knows how to work with what you bring.
Sessions with me are warm, direct and focused.
I'll meet you wherever you are — and I'll work with you, actively and carefully, toward wherever you want to go.
You set the pace. I make sure we are actually moving.
In Person Therapy in Central Harrogate
If you are based in or around Harrogate, we can meet face to face in a private, comfortable therapy room in the centre of town. Many clients find that being physically present in a dedicated space helps them feel more grounded and contained in the work. Sessions are available on weekday afternoons/evenings and some daytime slots.
Online Therapy Across the UK
Online therapy is available to adults anywhere in the UK. Sessions take place via secure video call, from wherever feels most private and comfortable for you — whether that is your home, your car, or anywhere else you feel safe to talk. Appointments are available on weekday including in the evenings, making it possible to access therapy without disrupting your working day.
My Approach
The relationship between us sits at the centre of everything I do
Most of the difficulties people bring to therapy didn't form in isolation. They formed in relationships — in how you were spoken to, held, seen or dismissed by the people who were supposed to care for you earliest. If that is where the wound formed, then a safe, honest and consistent relationship is often where healing takes place.
I am a relational integrative therapist. I do not follow a single fixed method. I draw on a range of approaches and tailor every session entirely around you and your needs.
I am warm, direct and compassionate.
I bring honesty, consistency and genuine care and investment to every session — and I work actively: you will know I'm in the room with you. I don’t sit, nod through the session and only repeat what you just said.
My goal is that you leave every session with something real: not just a vague sense of being heard — though that matters too — but a new way of seeing something, a connection you had not made before, a question worth sitting with.
Something that did not exist when you walked in.
My toolkit includes elements, concepts, theories and practices from:
Person-centred therapy,
Psychodynamic therapy,
Attachment-based therapy,
Transactional analysis.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy when it is what you need and want
Rewind Trauma Technique — a gentle approach effective within 1-3 sessions and it does not require you to describe traumatic events in detail if that’s how you wish to work on it
Fees
Individual Therapy Sessions £70 per 50-minute session
Rewind Trauma Treatment Sessions £95 per 50-minute session
A free 15-minute consultation call is available before committing — a chance to talk through what you are carrying and which way of working is most likely to help.
Student and Trainee Counsellor discount available.
Sessions are paid in advance by bank transfer. Payment details are provided upon booking.
Who I Work With
I work with adults experiencing a wide range of difficulties and this is not an exhaustive list. You do not need a diagnosis or a clinical label to reach out — if something is getting in the way of you living as fully as you would like, that is enough.
Relationships & Relational Patterns
Relationship difficulties and conflict
Disorganised attachment
Repetitive relationship patterns — attracting or recreating the same dynamics across different relationships
Difficulty with intimacy, closeness or trust
Fear of abandonment or rejection
Emotional numbness and disconnection
Co-dependency and people-pleasing
Perfectionism and fear of failure
Difficulty setting boundaries
Interracial and multicultural relationships
Navigating cultural differences within relationships and families
Family Dynamics
Difficult or toxic family relationships
Estrangement and family breakdown
Growing up with a parent who was emotionally unavailable, critical or unpredictable
Complicated feelings about family — love, resentment, guilt, grief
Childhood Experience & Trauma
Childhood trauma and adverse childhood experiences
Childhood neglect
Childhood abuse
The long-term impact of a difficult or painful childhood on adult life
PTSD and trauma
Traumatic life events
Self-Esteem & Identity
Low self-esteem and self-worth
Self-confidence difficulties
Self-criticism and inner critic
Shame
Identity questions and sense of self
Feeling like you don't belong or don't fit
Experiences of racism, discrimination and stereotyping
Navigating life between cultures — multicultural identity and expat experience