To help with relaxation and grounding

Visualisation Exercise - time for you.

28/09/2023

When you are unable to relax or are feeling anxious why not take twelve minutes to step into this visualisation exercise just for you?

Havening

12/09/2022

Havening is a way of you helping you calm your fight and flight responses of trauma, stress, or anxiety. You can do this by giving yourself a little time to care for you in the comfort of your safe space.

Walk and Talk

23/03/2022 Top News

We are all familiar with walking and with talking, putting these two familiar ways of being together in the open air with counselling or therapy has been proven to be good for us both physically and psychologically.

The Bent Penny - What does this mean?

21/03/2022 Top News

The image of a bent penny was first used as a metaphor by Dr Eric Berne, he asks us to think of each day of our life as a penny which is built into a stack from the day we are born until we take our final breath.

What is Transactional Analysis?

10/03/2022 Top News

How many of us find ourselves in familiar situations when it is hard for us to say no, or we become defensive, or overcompensate in some way?

Box Breathing

01/03/2022 Top News

Sometimes when we are experiencing stress we can often unconsciously hold our breath as part of our fight or flight response. A technique to help with stress is called Box. This technique simply involves taking slow deep breaths, holding our breath and breathing out and can bring an immediate sense of calm through engaging the vagus nerve and the parasympathetic system which lowers our heart rate and blood pressure, enabling the fight or flight response within us to stand down.

Such a time as this

14/02/2022 Top News

Many of us have struggled over the last two years with the constant changes we have experienced and continue to experience as we live with the Covid pandemic. I am finding that I dare to hope again as I watch and wait for the situation to evolve into an epidemic, and eventually into a familiar virus which we are more able to live with and among.