About

Peace Within Therapies offers trauma-informed therapy and wellbeing support for children, young people, and adults. Led by Sara-Mae, a qualified trauma therapist, the practice brings together psychotherapy, creative therapy, and trauma-informed somatic approaches to support recovery from trauma, abuse, anxiety, and emotional overwhelm.

Support is delivered through private practice and community-based settings, underpinned by a compassionate, evidence-based, and person-centred philosophy. Every therapeutic relationship is built on safety, trust, and respect for the individual’s lived experience.

Sara-Mae works with children, young people, and adults who have experienced trauma and trauma-related difficulties, offering both individual and group therapeutic sessions. She is a psychotherapist, trauma therapist, yoga therapist, creative therapist, family therapist, practitioner, trainer, and mentor, bringing a broad and integrated skill set to her work.

Her approach is grounded in a deep understanding of how trauma shows up in the body, mind, emotions, and relationships. This understanding is shaped by both professional practice and lived experience, and informed by the work of leading trauma pioneers including Bessel van der Kolk, Gabor Maté, Deb Dana, Daniel Siegel, Dan Hughes, Kim Golding, and the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) research, alongside many other reputable trauma-informed resources.

“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”

― Aristotle

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”

– Benjamin Franklin

Work to date

Sara-Mae has worked extensively with local authority schools and organisations across Staffordshire, Shropshire, and Warwickshire, delivering trauma-informed, compassionate, and evidence-based therapeutic support to children, young people, and adults.

Her practice is shaped by a combination of professional training, clinical experience, and lived understanding of trauma. She delivers trauma-informed wellbeing services, psycho-therapy/counselling, creative therapy, yoga/somatic therapy, and family therapy (DDP/PACE) across school settings, community environments, and private practice.

Sara-Mae has significant experience within the looked-after care sector, supporting children, young people, foster carers, families, and care teams through trauma-responsive and attachment-focused approaches. She has also worked closely with vulnerable adults and young people through referrals from rape and sexual abuse services, domestic abuse charities, and adoption and post-adoption support services.

Alongside this, Sara-Mae offers private therapeutic support for young people, teenagers, and adults who are experiencing the impact of physical health conditions, chronic stress, anxiety, depression, and emotional overwhelm.

Her work also includes experience within residential care homes for older adults, and the facilitation of wellbeing and support groups for carers supporting individuals living with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.

Sara-Mae currently works across private practice (both online and in-person services) and within the NHS mental health and wellbeing sector, enabling her to deliver integrated, accessible, and trauma-informed care across multiple systems of support.