Hypnotherapy for stress and anxiety
What comes to mind when you think about Hypnotherapy? Many people associate Hypnotherapy with the image of a swinging pocket watch or the concept of stage hypnotism whereby it appears the subject’s mind is being controlled for the purpose of…
Having Trouble Sleeping?
“A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow” Charlotte Bronté Sleep is a vital, often neglected, component of our health and well-being. When sleep is good it enables our body and brain to repair, restore, and reenergise ready for another day. If we…
What is Neuro Linguistic Programming – NLP ?
Neuro Linguistic Programming - NLP - is a complementary therapy that helps people of all ages understand what makes them tick – how they think, feel, and make sense of everyday life. If we break down the NLP jargon it…
Are you suffering from Post-Lockdown Fatigue or Anxiety?
There have been positives during the lockdowns, such as families spending more time together. But there are those families that have gone without seeing loved ones, and many single people who have felt the effects of isolation, not to mention…
Our new guest blogger, Emily Spillane, talks about loneliness at university
In my own experience, going to university was one of the loneliest times of my life. Although I was surrounded by people and friends, I could not shake the feeling that I used to wake up to everyday – that…
Life is Fragile & Precious (a client’s perspective)
How many of us are going about our daily lives right now, calm, with a sense of safety and a feeling of “all is well” ? As a child, I lived in constant fear that close behind me there was…
Waiting for talking therapy?
The Government’s ‘Improving Access to Psychological Therapies’ (IAPT) scheme is in the news today. There’s concern that the gap between an initial NHS assessment for mental health issues and actual talking therapy is too long. Over a million people a…
Can talking change anything?
People often ask me: "how does simply talking actually help or solve any of my problems in the real world?" It seems such a simple thing to do, to talk and to be listened to, but it's actually not that…
Spritual accompaniment with Bridget Walker, psychotherapist
I now offer Spiritual Accompaniment as part of my therapeutic practice. This is spiritual companionship, an opportunity to share the journey with someone else. We all experience a ‘dark night of the soul’ at some point in our lives perhaps…
Balancing female hormones – homeopathy with Helen Lee
Cee is in her 40s and came see me with peri menopausal symptoms. Her periods had stopped, flushing 3 hourly day and night, low libido due to uncomfortable intercourse, headaches, lack of energy and general feeling of lethargy. Along side prescribing Homeopathic remedies…
Stories of Healing with Nature’s Finest Teacher; an embodied approach to Psychotherapy. With Pam Billinge (Sept. 2018)
Pam Billinge proved to be an excellent, inspirational speaker and writer, engaging us with her passion for the horse's ability to tune into human emotion and the healing impact this has had on her and her clients. Pam has recently…
Super Therapists need Supervision! How counsellors make sure they are doing a good-enough job.
For me, one of the best things about working as a counsellor is the high level of professional support available to us. This comes largely through the medium of ‘supervision’. No – not someone literally watching over what we do…