Talking Therapy
Do you feel like you are drowning in your emotions sometimes? Unable to grasp any control when your emotions overwhelm you? Do you feel you act like a child sometimes, or sulk and cannot stop until the event or day has passed? Do you feel responsible for everything and apologise for so much? Do you feel you're not good enough or someone will show you up?
Are you in a difficult relationship? Are you being triggered by something? You may feel it is hard to cope with day-to-day tasks. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed or backed into a corner. I am here to help.
I help with anxiety, depression, trauma and more. See Anxiety Therapy page for information about how I help with anxiety.
Talking and becoming aware of your patterns of thoughts and behaviour, and to explore different perspectives can really help broaden your understanding on your thoughts and feelings
Having a different perspective and better awareness of your inner thoughts, behaviours and feelings gives you greater awareness of what you’ve been doing, and with awareness comes choices, as that is often missing, as we tend to narrow our view of our experiences. We often tell a story, where so often it can become bigger than it needs to be and your brain sees that as a signal to focus on it more
Trauma is being talked about even more now, it is a fact of life, if can affect someone’s whole life, however, it does not have to. You can work to explore how you can feel lighter and more comfortable with your past experiences without going over and over what once happened, it’s not what happened it’s how you work through it that matters
I have completed many courses, all of which can be used within each session when required or, where appropriate, including talking therapy.
Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a way of changing someone’s thoughts and behaviours to help to improve overall wellbeing and confidence. It has shown to help with phobias, fears, anxiety and past trauma. Master Practitioners since 2006
Eye Movement Therapy can be a useful therapy and can be used alongside NLP. It has also proved beneficial when working with trauma and PTSD.
Hypnotherapy is used to aid treating trauma, fears, anxiety and phobias, or to help make positive changes. Master Practitioner since 2006
A free fifteen-minute consultation is often offered. This gives you the opportunity to ask any questions you may have and where I can explain how I work and whether this is the right therapy for you. There is no obligation to continue thereafter.
If you are unsure of which treatment to book, choose any, we can discuss the best treatment for you during your consultation.
What to expect during a session
During the sessions, Compassion Focused Therapy is very much the main focus. With space to talk, and time to process your thoughts and emotions, it gives you the opportunity to observe things from a different perspective, giving you a sense of clarity, so you begin to feel more connected, have an overall sense of well-being, thus being able to feel comfortable, being the real you.
Ask you talk, I may ask you a question, this is to help you explore and process something you mentioned, I may explain something that will help you to process even more. So it's not necessarily an appointment where you talk and I listen.
"We often spend our childhood learning and our adulthood unlearning, which can give clarity to new learnings”
Art, drawing works well in therapy and can be used if preferable or with younger clients, it’s a great tool for many who feel talking is overwhelming.
I may offer homework to support you in between sessions, which has been welcomed by many clients.
Remote and Virtual sessions
I see clients from Europe and Australia, and who live some distance away in the UK including those who cannot easily travel. If you would like to discuss how talking therapy or any other therapy I offer might help you, you’re welcome to contact me. I am here to help.
Signs and symptoms of triggers, trauma or feeling overwhelmed
How does Talking Therapy work?
You use your conscious mind, for concentrating on chores, jobs, hobbies etc, this mind helps you to rationalise and solve problems.
However, your unconscious mind is also working at the same time, but very much in the background. For example, as you read thus, your mind may be thinking of things, when you are listening to someone you may be triggered by what they are saying. These natural actions are from your unconscious mind. It is always trying to protect you via a set of learned, automatic behaviors which include emotional reactions and habits.
The unconscious mind relies on childhood memories and learned behaviors which can obstruct clear thinking years later. It can be beneficial to have therapy to help you process your learned behaviors, stored memories, re-actions and emotions, so you can act, think and feel as is right for you.
Talking therapy can help you gain clarity, and can give you lots of tools to help yourself feel in control again.
Rather than talking about the past, talking therapy enables you to work on your reactions and triggers on how they affect you today, as those triggers, drove you to react the way you did due to your past experiences. You cannot go back and change what happened, you can change how you feel about what happened and your unconscious reactions to them.
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