🧠 Exploring Alexithymia: Understanding Difficulty Identifying Emotions - with CBT Therapist Becky Grace Irwing #emotions
This video explores what alexithymia is, how it affects emotional awareness, and why some people struggle to recognise or articulate what they feel. In this video, you can discover how alexithymia influences relationships, decision-making, and stress and why increasing emotional insight can be transformative.
👩🏻⚕️ Featuring Becky Grace, a former Registered Mental Health Nurse with 14 years of clinical experience across the NHS, university settings, and private practice. With nearly 30 years of lived experience of binge eating and bulimia, and midlife diagnoses of ADHD and self-identified autism, she brings a uniquely trauma-informed, empathic, and lived-experience-led perspective to her work.
Becky specialises in eating disorders, neurodivergence, and compulsive behaviours, offering integrative, affirming support rooted in both clinical expertise and personal understanding. Her approach focuses on creating safety, self-understanding, and sustainable emotional regulation to support long-term wellbeing.
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