Sass Boucher MSc, MBACP
Accredited counsellor
& psychotherapist working across the UK.
Hello, I am an experienced counsellor and psychotherapist committed to understanding your experiences, exploring what matters to you, and creating a space where understanding and change can emerge.
Alongside my therapy practice, I have specialist interests in Professional Trauma & Fatigue and the impact of domestic abuse, interests that have led to wider work in research, writing, training, and practitioner support.
Who i work with…
As an experienced therapist, I work with adults across a wide range of experiences, including anxiety, loss, relationship difficulties, stress, burnout, and periods of change or uncertainty.
For Individual Therapy
Counselling and psychotherapy for individuals, across a range of life experiences.
For Students and Trainees
Reduced-fee sessions alongside resources for the personal and professional journey of training as a helping professional.
For Practitioners & Organisations
Training, consultancy, therapy sessions, and reflective spaces for those supporting others through their work.
About Sass
At the heart of my working life, I am a BACP-accredited Psychotherapist and Counsellor.
I work online across the UK with clients who come to therapy for many different reasons and with many different things they would like to explore.
Alongside my therapy practice, I have taught counselling and psychotherapy at MSc level. I also train, speak, consult and write, with a particular interest in the impact of supporting other human beings and what helps us remain human while doing so.
Downloads & Resources
A growing collection of thoughtful, accessible resources, whether you are looking for personal support, learning to support others or working in an emotionally demanding role.
Take a look and use what feels helpful.
Looking after yourself is not about “doing wellbeing” perfectly or adding more demands to an already full life. This I have learned over many years.
This gentle, practical resource explores some of the ordinary foundations that can support how you feel, cope, rest and connect, without pretending that simple habits can solve difficult circumstances.
Ordinary? Yes. Necessary? Yes too!
What it explores
In a non-directive way, this resource invites you to consider the relationship between emotional wellbeing and some of the ordinary things your body and mind need. It explores sleep, hydration, food and fuel, movement, physical health, stress, connection, curiosity and giving, while recognising that what feels possible will be different for you.
What is included
Nine ordinary foundations that I think can support your wellbeing
Brief, accessible explanations of why I believe they matter
Gentle prompts for noticing what might already be supporting you
A reflective invitation to identify one small, manageable step
Further-support guidance and signposting
Who it may be helpful for
This resource may be helpful if you feel tired, stressed, overwhelmed or disconnected from your own needs, or if you simply want to reflect on the everyday foundations that do, or do not, support you.
It may also be useful if you are a student or practitioner, or if your work involves regularly supporting other people.
Important reflective note
This resource is intended for general information and personal reflection. It is not a checklist, a set of instructions or a replacement for medical advice, therapy, crisis support or specialist help.
Your health, disability, experiences of trauma, caring responsibilities, finances, work and wider life circumstances can all affect what feels possible for you.
This is a digital resource.
Once you have completed the checkout process, you will receive an email containing a link to download the PDF. Nothing will be sent to you by post.
Sleep is one of those things you can take for granted until it becomes difficult. When it does, it can quickly become another task, test or thing you feel you should be getting right.
This gentle, practical resource explores why sleep matters and offers some simple ways to give your body and mind a better chance of rest. It is not about achieving perfect sleep or creating an elaborate bedtime routine. It is about noticing what may be helping, what might be getting in the way, and whether one small change could make rest feel a little more possible.
Because honestly, life asks a lot of most of us.
What it explores
This resource invites you to consider the relationship between sleep, rest and emotional wellbeing. It explores what a lack of sleep can affect, how sleep can become pressured, and some of the ordinary conditions that may help your body and mind begin to slow down.
It also recognises that sleep can be affected by stress, health, pain, medication, hormones, trauma, caring responsibilities, shift work, grief, anxiety, depression and the wider circumstances of your life.
What is included
An accessible explanation of why sleep matters
Some of the ways poor or interrupted sleep may affect you
An exploration of the pressure and worry that can develop around sleep
Gentle suggestions for supporting rest and creating a steadier rhythm
Reflections on light, screens, caffeine, alcohol, food and your sleep environment
Prompts to help you notice what supports rest and what might be getting in the way
A simple reflective question
Further-support guidance and signposting
Who it may be helpful for
This resource may be helpful if sleep has become difficult, interrupted or pressured, or if you are finding that tiredness is affecting how you feel, think or cope.
It may also be useful if your studies, work, caring responsibilities or experience of supporting other people make it difficult to switch off and rest.
Important reflective note
This resource is intended for general information and personal reflection. It is not a set of instructions or a replacement for medical advice, therapy or specialist sleep support.
Sleep can be affected by physical health, medication, pain, mental health, trauma and sleep-related conditions. If your sleep difficulties continue, significantly affect your daily life or leave you feeling unwell or unsafe, it is important to seek appropriate professional support.
This is a digital resource.
Once you have completed the checkout process, you will receive an email containing a link to download the PDF. Nothing will be sent to you by post.
Stress is such a small word, and yet it can describe a great deal of what your body and mind may be carrying.
This gentle, evidence-informed resource explores what stress is, how the stress response works and why pressure can accumulate over time. I’m inviting you to notice how stress may be showing up physically, emotionally and in everyday life, without giving you another list of things to manage or suggesting that you should simply think your way out of difficult circumstances.
Because stress is not “just” anything.
What it explores
This resource considers stress as a real body and mind response to pressure, threat, uncertainty and demand. It explores how the stress response may protect you, what can happen when pressures continue to accumulate, and the concept of allostatic load: the possible wear and tear of repeatedly adapting and carrying on.
It also considers the idea that you are one whole human being across work and life, as well as recognising that stress is not always an individual problem. Sometimes the circumstances themselves need attention, support or change.
What is included
An accessible explanation of what stress is and how the stress response works
A consideration of why stress is not “just stress”
Examples of the physical, emotional and everyday ways stress may appear
An introduction to allostatic load and the cumulative impact of prolonged pressure
Reflections on carrying one whole self across work, home and the rest of life
An exploration of individual support alongside wider circumstances and systemic pressures
Gentle questions to help you notice what may be creating pressure and what might support you
A reflective pause
Further information, support and signposting
Who it may be helpful for
This resource may be helpful if you feel stressed, overwhelmed, exhausted or permanently “on”, or if ordinary things seem to be taking more effort than they usually would.
It may also be useful if you are studying, working in an emotionally demanding role, managing or supporting others, or wondering whether your body and mind have been carrying more than you realised.
Important reflective note
This resource is intended to offer general information, reflection and gentle support. It is not a substitute for therapy, medical advice, crisis support or your own judgement about what feels safe and appropriate for you.
Experiences associated with stress can also have physical or medical causes. New, severe, persistent or unexplained symptoms should not automatically be attributed to stress, and it may be important to seek appropriate medical or professional support.
Some ideas may feel useful and some may not. You are welcome to take what fits and leave what does not.
This is a digital resource.
Once you have completed the checkout process, you will receive an email containing a link to download the PDF. Nothing will be sent to you by post.
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