Real Healing, Soul Deep Transformation
Therapy, courses, and resources that go beyond surface level support, guided by lived experience and clinical expertise - to spark lasting change, and build deep self-worth.
Let’s create a life you love to live
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Deep Healing
Emotional Freedom
Lasting Transformation
Welcome
Welcome to Therapy with Tess - a space for deep healing, emotional freedom, and lasting transformation.
Created by BACP registered psychotherapist Tess Ridgeway (MA), this platform offers powerful resources, courses and insights to help you rebuild self-worth, overcome insecurity, and reconnect with who you truly are.
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The Insecurity Cure (Online Course)
A 6-part online course designed to help you rebuild self-worth, untangle insecurity, and develop deep, unshakeable confidence. Gently but powerfully guides you to the root of people-pleasing, self-doubt and shame so you can feel safe, self-assured, and emotionally grounded from within.
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Unfiltered (Online Course for Teens & Parents)
An empowering course to help teens - and those who love them - understand their emotions, build confidence, and protect themselves from external pressures and comparison culture. Designed to open up the conversations most of us never had growing up, it explores feelings, boundaries, friendships, and how to feel good from the inside out.
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Soul-full (Book - Coming Soon)
A personal and powerful book that blends memoir with therapeutic insight to guide readers on their own healing journey. Grounded in Tess’s MA research and lived experience, Soul-full offers emotional depth, reflection, and practical tools for creating a life rooted in truth, self-trust, and joy.
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Speaking & Workshops
Tess delivers inspiring and emotionally intelligent talks and workshops for schools, organisations, and community groups. Whether working with teens, parents, or professionals in education, social care, or wellbeing, Tess creates safe, insightful spaces that inspire empathy, confidence, and emotional awareness. Every session is grounded in her lived experience, academic research, and clinical expertise. Ready to bring soulful insight and lasting impact to your school, organisation, or community? Reach out to discuss your needs.
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Free Resources
Relax & Attract Workbook | Overcome Insecurity, Limiting Beliefs and Build Self-confidence so you can manifest your dream life. Download here
Inner Child Meditation | A gentle guided meditation to support inner healing and emotional ease.
Downloadable tools to support your emotional wellbeing - including the Relax & Attract workbook and Inner Child Meditation. Created to build trust, offer value, and help you begin your journey without pressure or cost.
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Private 1-1 Mentorship
For those seeking deep, personalised transformation, a limited number of bespoke 1:1 packages are available (minimum 3 months).Please contact me directly to explore if this is the right fit.
Hi, I'm Tess
A BACP-registered psychotherapist with an MA in Psychotherapy, and a specialist focus on co-dependency, addiction, and trauma.
But before any of that, I was a woman completely disconnected from herself, lost in cycles of addiction, deeply damaging relationships, and emotional chaos.
I spiralled through one rock bottom after another, isolated and desperate. From social services to homelessness, and a total physical and mental breakdown, I lived through what many only glimpse from the outside. I thought there was no way out.
But there was.
Today, I’m a mother, a Masters qualified psychotherapist, and a published writer, living a life rooted in purpose, peace, and genuine joy. The best part is that now, I get to help others find their way too.
My lived experience runs alongside my extensive clinical training, to offer something truly powerful: therapy and guidance that’s both academically grounded and soul deep.
Through years of study, practice and personal growth, I developed The SOUL Method™ - a therapeutic approach that gently guides people back to themselves. It’s designed to help you understand your patterns, build self-trust, and experience real emotional freedom. My work is grounded in love, clarity and integrity, not quick fixes or online trends - and my clients often tell me it’s this mix of empathy, wisdom, and lived experience, that sets my work apart.
I’ve facilitated therapy in schools, treatment centres, and now at one of the UK’s leading private hospitals. Alongside my 1:1 work, I’ve created accessible online resources, including courses, talks, and soon, my first book, Soul-full. Whether you’re navigating insecurity, emotional overwhelm - or parenting a child through it, there’s something here to support you. If you've ever felt like there’s a hole in your soul, I want you to know: healing is possible, joy is possible, and your transformation can begin right here.
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Words from the Heart
Jenny, 33
"Tess helped me see that my exhaustion wasn’t failure, it was a sign to care for myself, not just everyone else. Our home feels calmer now. I am more present as a mum and just happier in myself"
Anonymous, 41
"The biggest thing for me was realising I do actually have the ability to create the life I want. I was stuck and very low and I didn't really believe things could change for me. Now I have broken through that old story with Tess's help, and I like my life and who I am, for the first time in a long while."
Clare, 38
"I've known Tess since 2016 and her journey has been incredible. She's overcome so much with courage, and everything she teaches, she’s lived. She’s the real deal, and there’s no one I’d trust more to guide others through their own healing "
*All testimonials featured on this page are from real therapy with tess clients. To respect client confidentiality identifying details have been withheld, though this may change in the future with client consent. Your privacy and trust are always my top priority.
Download My Free Meditation:
Inner Child Meditation
Reconnect with the part of you that needed more love, safety and understanding. This gentle guided meditation - a gift from me to you - was created to support your inner healing and emotional ease.
