Davina Townley

Hi, I'm Davina, I am dedicated to helping you understand what your nervous system, emotions, and inner world are trying to tell you — so you can move forward with clarity and self-trust so you can feel empowered, confident, and connected again. My approach integrates therapeutic practices, NLP methodologies, and life coaching principles, informed by both clinical training and lived experience to create a grounded, compassionate space for meaningful change. You may be experiencing: • anxiety, overthinking, emotional overwhelm or low mood. • exhaustion from people pleasing • feeling "too much" or "not enough" • feeling stuck, disconnected or shut down • difficulty setting boundaries • midlife restlessness or identity shifts • parenting stress and emotional triggers • grief after loss or separation • losing yourself in relationships These are not personality flaws. They are nervous system responses rooted in survival patterns you learned long ago. And they can change. Many people reach a point where life simply feels too much. You may be holding everything together on the outside while quietly struggling on the inside. You may feel overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure how to move forward with Anxiety or low mood at the forefront. These experiences are common — and they're often the result of nervous system overload, long-standing stress patterns, and life transitions that shift your identity and emotional capacity. You're not broken. You're responding exactly how a human responds under pressure, loss, or emotional strain. You may have spent years being the peacemaker, the strong one, the fixer, the one who holds everything together. And now… something inside you is asking for more: • more peace • more grounding • more authenticity • more connection to your own needs • more space to feel without being overwhelmed

I'm a Certified Practitioner in life coaching, NLP and time line therapy. I am also a qualified Child Psychotherapist (BSc Hons, MA) with further training and experience in trauma, attachment, peri-natal development, observational studies, EMDR, Polyvagal theory, bereavement, addiction, family dynamics, IFS, anxiety disorders, DDP, neuroscience, relationships and families affected by parental suicide. I bring extensive experience across therapeutic, clinical, and support settings.

Over time, my work has become very clear. I specialise in supporting adults navigating life transitions — particularly midlife, parenting, grief, separation, career change, and identity shifts. Often, on the outside, life looks "fine". Careers are established. Families are functioning. Responsibilities are met. But internally, something feels unsettled. Anxiety becomes louder. Old coping strategies stop working. Patterns in relationships repeat. There's a quiet question: Is this really who I am? My approach is trauma-informed and grounded in nervous system awareness. Rather than fixing symptoms, we explore the root patterns beneath them — the protective strategies formed earlier in life that once made sense, but may now feel limiting. My specialism is helping people understand what's surfacing — and supporting them to move forward with more clarity, self-trust, and peace.

My approach isn't about quick strategies or surface-level mindset shifts. It's about understanding the nervous system, attachment patterns, and the protective parts of us that formed early in life. Many of the behaviours people struggle with — anxiety, people-pleasing, emotional shutdown, over-responsibility — are intelligent adaptations. We explore what's underneath before trying to change what's on the surface. Because when the nervous system feels safer, change happens naturally. That's the foundation of my work- to help you reconnect with who you truly are — not the version of you that's been shaped by fear, guilt, or expectation, but the real, authentic self that's always been within.