There’s a difference. As a Therapist I work with Clients on their thinking. Exploring their thinking and even changing their thinking. Sometimes it’s as clear as day, when they start to talk about what is going on for them in the here and now. I’m on the look out for why they came, what the…
Pool Session Diaries: How Growth & Understanding Help You Overcome Struggle
I arrived at the pool for my next session, it had been a couple of weeks since the last time I’d scuba dived and so I was feeling a little nervous but at this point-knew this was normal. I was still trying to judge my timing of arrival, so that I didn’t hang around too…
Five Of My Favourite Places To Visit At Christmas
Well, I don’t know about you but depending on what is going on in my life, christmas can be either fun or awful but one thing I know, is that the best christmas I ever spent, was with my husband and family – tobogganing down the snow covered slopes of Grindelwald in Switzerland. Drinking a…
Why Focus On What Makes You Well, Whilst dealing With What’s Made You Ill.
As I travelled, I began to develop a sense of wellbeing through a process of peak/flow moments. I consistently felt like an iridescent bubble, gently floating about an inch above the ground, as we travelled across the burnt umber, tundra of the australian outback. It hadn’t taken me long to fully and consciously realise I…
Reminisce Simpler Times During A Mid-Week Break In Devon
As we pulled up the driveway, I could hear the sound of my children laughing, as they run across the grass. Saw my nephew standing next to my son and felt sad when thinking about the loss of my mother-in-law and the last time we all stood together, as a blended and extended family, watching…
Pool Session Diaries:How To Find Your Voice Underwater. Develop Assertiveness and Learn To Trust In Yourself
When you meet someone who is to instruct you and know they are sharing tips and tools which enable you to rise above the fear and at the end of a session you feel empowered. Isn’t this what everyone wants from a good Therapist? Although this session wasn’t counselling. It was my second pool dive…
Harness the Power of the Blue to Build Good Mental Health and Enhance Overall Wellbeing
I’ve been reading up on Ocean Therapy and Blue Health recently. Having been a keen advocate of using the power of the ocean and its marine life, to calm my children when they were little. I would put them in their rooms, after a bath and bedtime story, then if they had been having a particularly…
Beach Walking Therapy
Working as an addiction therapist at a luxury rehab in Thailand, I’ve learnt professionally and understood for many years personally, how much benefit there comes from getting out of the mental state you’re currently in, to sort out challenges, difficulties or traumatic experiences. Getting moving is one of the best things you can do to…
What Do You Drink When You’re Not Drinking Alcohol? Try Seedlip!
The Go Sober for October movement in the UK, has interested me as a drug and alcohol therapist. I’m aware as we begin to approach christmas, a time when I’ve experienced and know, that partying, indulgence and drinking, are part and parcel of our culture. Not everyone chooses to drink or necessarily can drink alcohol,…
How Scuba Diving Helps Me To Understand And Deal With Trauma
Trauma can have such an impact on a life, that a person doesn’t always understand why they respond in the way they do, to certain life situations and experiences. Last night, I completed my first pool dive of 2018 with PADI Master Instructor Rob Keys from local Dive Centre, Dive Odyssea. I’m a qualified PADI…
