Angel Ogden - "I Am" Therapy
“Know thyself” a simple yet profound invitation that lies at the heart of my therapeutic approach.
"I Am" Therapy believe we each carry a life script: a story shaped by early roles, relationships, and the environments we've passed through. Over time, these scripts can begin to define us, but they are not who we truly are.
In our work together, I offer a sacred space to pause, reflect, and gently explore the many layers of your script. I see you not as broken, but as whole, perhaps just entangled in stories that no longer serve you.
My approach is Humanistic and Integrative, rooted in Person-Centred Therapy, Gestalt, and Transactional Analysis. I offer a relational, trauma-informed space where you can safely explore your experiences at a pace that feels right for you.
Whether you are feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, emotionally stuck, struggling within relationships, or simply searching for a deeper understanding of yourself, therapy can offer a space for reflection, awareness, healing, and change.
This is your space to remember who you are and come home to self.
How I work
I offer a collaborative and relational approach to therapy, where your experience, pace, and autonomy remain central throughout the process.
My work is trauma-informed and grounded in creating emotional safety, trust, and curiosity within the therapeutic relationship. Together, we may explore patterns, beliefs, emotions, relationships, past experiences, and ways of being that may no longer serve you.
I offer:
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Online Therapy
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Telephone Therapy
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Walking Therapy
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Short-Term and Long-Term Therapy
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Trauma-Informed Support
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Therapeutic Assessment
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Psychoeducation and Emotional Regulation Support
I work with a range of experiences including:
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Trauma and PTSD
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Sexual Abuse and Sexual Violence
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Anxiety and Depression
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Identity and Self-Worth
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Relationship Difficulties
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Shame and Inner Criticism
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Bereavement and Loss
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Emotional Burnout
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Frontline and Emergency Services Trauma
Areas of Practice
Trauma
Trauma isn’t just what happened, it’s what’s still held in the body, the mind, the heart. In this space, you’ll be met with safety, patience, and care. Together, we’ll honour your pace, gently tend to the wounds, and begin the journey from surviving to living.
'Substance and addiction'
Addiction often speaks the language of pain, escape, and unmet need. This space is here for you, without judgement. Together, we’ll explore what the substance is soothing, and gently uncover new ways to cope, heal, and come home to yourself.
Sexual orientation LGBTQIA+
This is a space where you don’t have to explain who you are, only be. Whether you're exploring your identity, facing rejection, or seeking deeper self-acceptance, you’ll be met with respect, care, and understanding. Together, we’ll honour your truth and support your journey to living it freely.
Body image issue
Your body holds your story, not just how it looks, but how it’s felt, judged, and carried you through. In this space, we explore your relationship with your body with compassion, not criticism. Together, we’ll move towards acceptance, respect, and a gentler way of seeing yourself.
'Sexuality and sexual health'
Your sexuality is a sacred part of who you are. Whether you're questioning, exploring, or healing, this space holds your truth without shame. Together, we’ll gently unpack the layers, honour your body’s story, and support you in reclaiming confidence, clarity, and wholeness.
Relationships
Relationships can be our greatest teachers, and our deepest wounds. Whether you're navigating conflict, disconnection, or repeating patterns, this space invites honest reflection and healing. Together, we’ll explore how you relate to others and, most importantly, to yourself.
Anger management
Anger often masks deeper pain, unmet needs, unheard stories, unseen wounds. In this space, anger isn’t judged, it’s understood. Together, we’ll explore what lies beneath the surface, finding healthier ways to express, release, and reclaim your voice with clarity and care.
'Sex and intimacy issues'
Intimacy begins with knowing yourself. Whether you're facing disconnection, shame, or uncertainty, this space invites you to explore your relationship with touch, trust, and vulnerability. Together, we’ll peel back the layers and move towards connection that feels safe, authentic, and true.
'Bereavement and loss'
Grief has no timeline, no map, only waves. In this space, you are free to feel, remember, rage or rest. Together, we’ll honour your loss and gently hold the love that remains, as you find your way through, one breath at a time.
'Depression and Anxiety'
When life feels overwhelming, it’s easy to lose your centre. Here, you’ll find a calm, non-judgemental space to breathe, reflect, and gently untangle what’s beneath the surface. Together, we’ll slow the noise, tend to the pain, and reconnect you to steadiness within.
Low self-esteem
Beneath self-doubt often lies a forgotten truth: "you are already enough". In this space, we gently unpick the inner critic and the stories you’ve carried. Together, we’ll rebuild from within, grounded in self-worth, not performance.
Loneliness
Loneliness isn’t just about being alone, it’s about feeling unseen. Here, you’ll be met with presence and care as we explore the deeper longing beneath the silence. Together, we’ll journey back to connection, with self, others, and the soul of who you are.
Motivation
This space is for those feeling disconnected, stuck, or searching for meaning. Through self-inquiry and gentle reflection, we’ll uncover what truly moves you not from pressure, but from purpose. Your inner voice knows the way.
'Identity and belonging'
I offer a safe, grounded space to explore identity, culture, and belonging. Together, we’ll honour your roots, unpack what no longer serves you, and reconnect you to a deeper sense of self, where true belonging begins within.
Trauma Informed Support & professional experience
My therapeutic work is informed not only through clinical training, but also through years of experience working within frontline environments and supporting individuals exposed to trauma, crisis, grief, and high-pressure situations.
Alongside my private practice, I have delivered trauma-informed wellbeing support within organisational settings, including facilitating a trauma-informed psychoeducation and reflective support programme for the London Fire Brigade Community Engagement Team following the impact of critical incidents.
This work focused on:
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Trauma awareness and psychoeducation
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Emotional wellbeing and self-regulation
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Reflective group discussions
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Burnout and vicarious trauma
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Creating safer relational spaces within teams
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Understanding the impact of trauma on the mind and body
Within private practice, I have experience working therapeutically with survivors of rape, sexual abuse, and sexual trauma, offering assessment and ongoing counselling support within a safe, compassionate, and non-judgemental space.
My approach remains grounded in empathy, collaboration, emotional safety, and respecting each individual’s pace and process.
Meet Angel Ogden
BSc Hons Integrative Humanistic counsellor (BACP)
Before becoming a therapist, I spent over two decades working within frontline policing roles, where I witnessed the impact trauma, grief, crisis, violence, and survival can have on individuals, families, communities, and professionals themselves.
Those experiences deepened my understanding of human vulnerability, resilience, and the importance of relational support. They also shaped my passion for creating spaces where people feel genuinely seen, heard, and emotionally safe.
Today, my work brings together both lived and professional understanding. Alongside my private practice, I have experience supporting individuals with trauma, including survivors of rape and sexual abuse, offering therapeutic assessment and ongoing counselling within a compassionate, trauma-informed space. I have also delivered trauma-informed wellbeing support, psychoeducation, and reflective group work within organisational settings, including work alongside the London Fire Brigade Community Engagement Team.
Through this work, and through my own personal journey, I received what felt like the most beautiful invitation:
“Know thyself.”
This invitation was not an interrogation, but a sacred turning inward. A gentle yet profound inquiry into the layers gathered over time through experience, relationships, pain, conditioning, and survival. Beneath those layers, something unchanging remained. Something true.
“I Am.”
I see lives as scripts, each of us born into a play already in motion. Cast with characters such as family, friends, teachers, lovers, and communities. Each scene shaped by environment, emotion, culture, and experience. As children, we absorb these roles and settings, and from them we begin building our identities. Scripts become beliefs. Beliefs become behaviours. Over time, many of us forget we were ever the writer.
Within the therapeutic work, I offer another metaphor:
Imagine yourself as a television. The life script plays across the screen, flickering scenes, old stories, moments of joy, grief, shame, fear, love, and survival. Yet the television itself, the source beneath the images, is never altered by what appears upon it. It remains steady. Still. Whole.
But many of us forget how to switch the script off. We become entangled in the drama, believing we are the story itself.
I too have felt lost within my own life script. Through therapy, spiritual practice, meditation, stillness, presence, and deep self-inquiry, I began reconnecting with the part of myself untouched by the stories I had lived through.
This is how I sit with you.
Together, we will gently explore the scenes, relationships, patterns, wounds, and turning points that have shaped your experience of yourself and the world. At your pace, we begin making space for awareness, healing, understanding, and compassion, allowing old chapters to soften and come to rest with greater peace.
My role is not to fix you, because I do not believe you are broken.
Pain is part of being human. Yet suffering can grow through the stories we become trapped within, stories that keep the screen endlessly running and disconnect us from our resilience, presence, and deeper sense of self.
Our work is to walk together through those layers. To create a space where you can safely explore, feel, reflect, heal, and remember who you truly are beneath the script.
My work today is grounded in compassion, curiosity, depth, and care, offering a therapeutic space where all parts of your experience are welcome.
Frequently Asked Questions
What happens in the first session?
The first session is an opportunity for us to begin getting to know one another. We may explore what has brought you to therapy, your hopes for the process, and whether we feel like the right fit to work together.
Do I need to know exactly what to talk about?
No. Many people begin therapy feeling uncertain, overwhelmed, or unable to fully express what they are experiencing. Therapy can help create understanding and clarity over time.
Is therapy confidential?
Yes. Therapy is confidential within professional and ethical boundaries, which will be discussed clearly during our initial work together.
How long will I need therapy?
This varies for each person. Some people seek short-term support around a specific issue, while others engage in longer-term exploratory work.
My Services
Individual Therapy
At "I Am" Therapy, individual sessions offer a safe, confidential, and non-judgemental space for you to explore your thoughts, emotions, and life experiences.
Sessions are held online or by telephone only at this time, offering you the comfort and privacy of your own environment.
· Session length: 1 hour
· Cost £50 per hour
*Concessions available: fees are discussed during your initial consultation.
*This service is open to adults aged 18 and over.
Please note that I do not offer crisis support, but I am happy to signpost you to appropriate services if needed.
If Individual Therapy feels like a path you’d like to explore, please get in touch to book a free consultation.
Walking Therapy
Walking Therapy is a gentle yet powerful way to reconnect with yourself through movement and nature.
Held in Victoria Park, East London, these sessions invite you to step outside the traditional therapy room and into open air, where body, mind, and spirit can breathe more freely.
Walking Therapy can feel especially helpful if you find it easier to reflect while moving, or if you feel confined or overstimulated by screen-based interactions. Nature offers a powerful container, not just for healing, but for remembering who you are beneath life’s demands.
· Location: Clapham Common and Streatham Common
· Session length: 1 hour
· Cost £55 per session
*Concessions available — fees are discussed during your initial consultation
*These sessions are available to adults aged 18 and over, and while they are therapeutic in nature, they are not suited for crisis intervention. If that’s something you need, I can help signpost you to the right support.
If Walking Therapy feels like a path you’d like to explore, please get in touch to book a free consultation. The first step can be a gentle one and you won’t have to take it alone.
