Read / Blog Library

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Specific areas

Explore mother-child bond and how to work with challenges

General - Healing in therapy - Approaches I use

Therapeutic insights from a year of working with clients - what works in therapy?

Using grounding with trauma or to calm an overactive body - an introduction to some basic tips - part I

Calming the Feeling of Threat: How to Stay Grounded and Centred - part II - breathing techniques

Part III - How to tap for healing and regulation using EFT

How to calm the body using the vagal nerve

Why do you put mindfulness and counselling together - how does this benefit the client/me?

The key to fixing my PTSD - allowing avoidance/thinking to be replaced by space to feel and heal in my body

A post explaining the roots of mindfulness from the Buddhist traditions, with a focus on breath work.

Walking and nature therapy

Grief and Loss

A post about bereavement and grief.

Spousal loss - tips for widows or grieving partners

My story

Poem about experience of suffering - I wrote this poem whilst I was working through my trauma of complex loss, complex trauma and bullying.

A post about using mantras: why should I and how do I use mantras?

A post I wrote about secondary suffering, following the tragic, sudden loss of my best friend from university, Katie.

Highly sensitive people

An article from my perspective about Highly Sensitive People and how counselling can help take care of ourselves when trying to operate as a neuro-atypical in a world set up where tough individualism is regarded over sensitivity.

Retreats

A blog post about yoga and mindfulness holidays: should they be fun...