Nicola Benyahia — Trauma Therapist • Coach • Creator of RECLAIM™
Trauma-informed therapy, RECLAIM™ programmes and coaching to help you understand what shaped you, reconnect with who you are and create a life in which you can thrive.
Why this work matters
Childhood trauma does not always remain in childhood. It can show up years later as self-doubt, people-pleasing, perfectionism, overachievement, fear of rejection, difficulty setting boundaries, emotional triggers or feeling disconnected from who you really are.
You may understand your patterns. You may have built a successful life. You may even be the person everyone else relies on — and still find yourself wondering why something inside keeps holding you back.
My work is about understanding what shaped you without allowing it to dictate what comes next.
Healing is not about becoming somebody different. It is about reclaiming the person underneath the survival strategies.
You survived what happened to you. Now you get to discover who you are beyond it.
RECLAIM™
RECLAIM™ is my signature trauma-informed personal development pathway for adults who experienced childhood trauma, neglect or abuse and want to understand how the past may still be shaping the present.
Understanding what protected you
Recognise the responses, beliefs and behaviours that helped you navigate childhood and explore how they may still be operating in adult life.
Making sense of your patterns
Explore how early experiences can influence self-worth, relationships, attachment, emotions, achievement, people-pleasing and the way you see yourself.
Putting down what was never yours to carry
Begin challenging shame, misplaced responsibility, outdated beliefs and narratives that no longer serve the person you are becoming.
Meeting the person underneath the protection
Reconnect with your needs, values, strengths, creativity, identity and the parts of yourself that may have been pushed aside in order to survive.
Taking back your voice and your space
Strengthen boundaries, self-trust and confidence. Practise being seen, heard and valued without automatically shrinking to keep others comfortable.
Creating what comes next
Move beyond understanding the past and begin intentionally shaping relationships, goals, choices and a future that reflects who you are now.
Choose a pathway
Therapy, RECLAIM™ and coaching are distinct pathways. Not sure which is right for you? A discovery call is the simplest place to start.
Therapy
A safe, professional space for trauma-informed counselling and EMDR where deeper therapeutic processing is appropriate.
Sometimes moving forward requires more than insight or coaching. Therapy offers a confidential space to explore experiences that continue to affect emotional wellbeing, relationships, confidence and day-to-day life.
Signature programme
A structured journey helping you understand survival patterns, reconnect with identity and self-worth, reclaim your voice and create what comes next.
Trauma-informed, paced work for adults who experienced childhood trauma, neglect or abuse and want to understand how the past may still be shaping the present.
Forward focused
For people ready to focus on confidence, direction, purpose, transitions and moving forward with greater self-trust.
Practical, reflective work: identifying what matters to you, recognising what is getting in the way and translating insight into meaningful action.
How I work
I do not believe in surface-level motivation or simply telling people to think positively. I believe in understanding the roots of our patterns, integrating what we have lived through and building a future that is not controlled by fear.
Healing your past and building your future can happen alongside one another. Consistency matters more than perfection. We never stop learning, growing or becoming.
Understanding where patterns came from, rather than layering coping strategies over them.
Work grounded in the meeting point between lived experience and professional practice.
Healing the past and building the future do not have to be separate journeys.
Small, repeatable steps — because consistency matters more than perfection.
Featured resource
Self-guided trauma-informed workbook
A self-guided trauma-informed workbook providing psychoeducation, reflective exercises, grounding, identity work, boundaries, self-worth and forward-focused planning.
Self-guided
Self-guided trauma-informed workbook
A self-guided trauma-informed workbook providing psychoeducation, reflective exercises, grounding, identity work, boundaries, self-worth and forward-focused planning.
Price to be confirmed
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Explore ResourcesOne name, five pathways
Therapy, RECLAIM™, coaching and psychological resources — one professional practice, one trust anchor.
Your past is part of your story, but it does not have to write every chapter that follows.
Choose the pathway that best fits where you are now — or start with a conversation.
Understand what shaped you. Reclaim who you are. Create what comes next.
