STRAIGHT TALK
Truth Creativity Resilience
Helping women recover from emotional abuse, workplace harm, and burnoutTrauma-informed, heart-led support using conversation, creativity, and reflection.
A space to make sense of what hurt you — without pressure, fixing, or labels.🌱 Welcome — I’m glad you’re here
If you’ve been silenced, dismissed, overwhelmed, or made to feel “too much" this is a place to pause and land.At Straight Talk™, I support women rebuilding inner safety, clarity, and identity after
🌱 emotional abuse
🌱 workplace harm
🌱 burnout
🌱 or long periods of being unseen.Not with clichés.
Not with sugar-coating.
Not with “just breathe and manifest.”But with:
🌱 grounded conversation
🌱 nervous-system-aware clarity
🌱 creative healing
🌱 and small, honest steps that actually change somethingHealing doesn’t need to be dramatic.
Rebuilding doesn’t need to be rushed.
It just needs to be truthful — and held with care. Start with a gentle clarity call
Is this for you?
You might be in the right place if:🌿 You’ve experienced emotional or institutional bullying
🌿 You’re burned out and struggling to trust yourself again
🌿 You’ve been silenced, dismissed, or made to doubt your own reality
🌿 You feel displaced — at work, in relationships, or culturally
🌿 You want support that doesn’t rush, pathologise, or minimise your experience
🌿 You don’t need to have the right words.
🌿 You don’t need to know what you need yet.
🌿 We can begin where you are.This work is reflective, relational, and trauma-informed — not a quick fix.
Ways to work together
1. One-off grounding or clarity sessionA single session to help you stabilise, reflect, and make sense of what’s happening — without pressure to commit to anything further.2. Ongoing 1:1 supportTrauma-informed, creative, and relational support over time for those who want space to heal, rebuild boundaries, and regain direction.3. Walk & Talk sessions (East Sussex)Gentle, movement-based conversations for people who think and feel more clearly outdoors.View all ways to work together
About me
I’m Corina — an author and creative guide offering trauma-informed, heart-led support.My work is shaped by lived experience, professional practice, and years of listening to women navigating emotional abuse, burnout, and unsafe systems.I believe healing happens when people feel heard, believed, and not rushed.This work isn’t about fixing you — it’s about restoring dignity, clarity, and choice.Not sure where to begin?That’s okay.A free 30-minute clarity call is simply a conversation — a chance to talk things through and see what might help, if anything.There’s no pressure to continue.
We’ll decide next steps together, or not at all.
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Professional background
Training, experience & approachA note on transparency
I share this information for clarity and trust — not because healing requires impressive credentials, but because some people want to understand who they’re sitting with.🌿 Professional background
I’m an author and creative guide offering trauma-informed, heart-led support.My work sits at the intersection of:
- emotional safety
- reflective conversation
- creativity as a meaning-making toolIt is not clinical treatment, but grounded, ethical, and carefully held.🧭 Training & qualifications* Diploma in Hypnotherapy & Psychotherapy- Trauma-informed and solution-focused, with an emphasis on emotional safety and nervous-system awareness.
* Personal Performance & Confidence Coaching - Supporting people to rebuild voice, boundaries, and self-trust after prolonged minimisation, harm, or burnout.
* Intentional Creativity® Practitioner - Trained in image-making, storytelling, and creative witnessing — using art as a pathway to insight and integration, not performance.
* Associate Member of BAAT
* Aligned with the ethical foundations of art therapy and reflective practice.Writing · Published work · Talks · Resources · Social media → Linktree🌱 Influences that shape how I workMy approach is informed by thinkers and practitioners whose work prioritises dignity, depth, and inner authority:Milton Erickson
Strategic, respectful conversation that bypasses shame and supports people to access their own inner resources.Alice Miller
Understanding emotional neglect, childhood trauma, and the long-term impact of unacknowledged harm.Intentional Creativity®
Using image, metaphor, and creative process as ways to think, feel, and integrate experience when words alone are not enough.
These influences support work that is non-pathologising, relational, and respectful of pace.🌱 How I hold this workI work:- slowly and collaboratively
with consent and choice at every step without diagnosing, rushing, or minimising using creativity
as support, never demandIf at any point the work doesn’t feel right, we pause or stop.🌱 What this work is — and isn’tThis work is:
* trauma-informed
* reflective and relational
* supportive of nervous-system regulation and repairThis work is not:
* medical or psychiatric treatment
* crisis intervention
* a replacement for emergency or
* clinical careIf you’d like to explore working together,
you can begin with a free clarity call — simply a conversation.
Start with a gentle clarity call