Containment Session

Service Description

A Containment Session is not therapy, coaching, or emotional processing. It is a focused, one off session designed for moments when something has spiked - an interaction, an email, a professional response, a shift in behaviour, and you can feel yourself starting to lose your footing. These sessions are for women living inside active coercive control, post separation abuse, or court enabled harm, where speaking up, setting boundaries, or “advocating for yourself” can actually increase risk. In a containment session, we slow everything right down. We separate: What is actually happening, from what is being projected onto you, from what you are being pressured to carry. The aim is not insight for insight’s sake. The aim is clarity, self trust, and not losing yourself inside the pressure. This work is not subtle. Women often leave feeling: Clearer about what is and isn’t theirs. Less swallowed by self doubt or over responsibility. Able to respond rather than freeze, collapse, or unravel. Steadier in their own reality when external gaslighting is active. Containment works alongside therapy, not instead of it, because it addresses what is happening now, not what happened in the past. These sessions are: 60 minutes, held online, booked only when needed & intentionally limited in availability. They are for moments when you need support now, not six months from now. Lisa