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Counselling in Bury St Edmunds
Welcome to Space to Be Therapy. I'm Jess, an integrative counsellor based in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, offering in-person counselling for adults. Whether you're experiencing anxiety, trauma, grief, relationship difficulties, low self-esteem or simply the everyday challenges of being human, you're welcome here.
What is Space to Be?
Space to Be was created from a simple but important idea: that we all need a place where we are allowed to be fully human.
As an integrative counselling practice in Bury St Edmunds, I wanted to create a space where you don't have to perform, minimise yourself, or hold everything together. A space where you can arrive exactly as you are- messy, uncertain, grieving, hopeful, stuck, growing, or all of those things at once.
Space to Be is rooted in the belief that we all deserve relationships built on connection, acceptance, compassion and understanding. A place where shame and pain are welcome, but where bravery, vulnerability, curiosity and growth are also celebrated.
For me, counselling is about more than simply reducing symptoms. Therapy can be a place to explore our struggles, experiences and the things that have shaped us, but it can also be something more.
A space to understand ourselves with greater kindness.
A space to explore who we are beyond our coping strategies.
A space to reconnect with what matters to us and begin asking:
What do I want from my life?
What do I value?
What feels meaningful to me?
A space to be whatever, whoever and however you need to be.
The Story Behind Space to Be
Space to Be began as a counselling practice, but my hope has always been for it to become something bigger.
Alongside one-to-one therapy in Bury St Edmunds, I'm developing Space to Be Together- a growing community of events, conversations and collaborations that bring people together through curiosity, connection and shared humanity.
Whether you're looking for counselling, exploring therapy for the first time or you're a fellow therapist searching for community, I hope you'll find a place here.
There's a Space for You Here
Find the part of Space to Be that's right for you
