So Where's the Catch?
Every day I learn several more lessons about life, these often come from mundane things and yet they can make the most profound learning experiences. Usually I take how the mind works and transfer it into how to deal with…
How Reformer Training Supports Stress, Sleep, and Better Mood
Stress, poor sleep, and low mood often travel together. One bad week can start it. Work pressure rises. Sleep gets lighter. Patience runs thin the next day. Over time, the body can start to feel stuck in “on” mode. Movement…
Every client wants change
Every client who picks up the phone, sends me an email or walks through my door, all want the same thing. They may want to give up smoking, cut down on the glasses of wine a night that they are…
How the Alexander Technique Saved my Life
I didn’t come to the technique through any particular aches and pains, but rather because I was losing the plot completely. I was in my mid 30’s happily married and with 2 children when I found myself struggling to get…
Experience Your Energy Field - Free Yourself from Fears and Limitations.
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) also known as “Tapping”, is a form of energy psychology. It can be described as Acupuncture without needles – therefore is non-invasive. Our bodies are made up of energy pathways (meridians), much like the nervous system.…
Deep Tissue Massage
What is Deep Tissue Massage? Deep tissue massage as the name suggests is massage that works on the muscles of the body at a deep level. The tissues of the body are manipulated using various techniques. These can include gentle…
Food Intolerances/Weight Gain
I regularly see patients who have eaten the same food everyday for years and years, craving the same things day in and out. Often the items we desire are the ones that lead to weight gain. Once these products are…
Elements of Successful Therapy - The Right Type of Therapy with the Right Therapist
It is of course true that there are many different kinds of psychotherapy and counselling – person centred and cognitive behavioural therapy are perhaps two of the best known, but other well-known approaches include gestalt therapy, psychoanalysis and transactional analysis.…
Acceptance and commitment therapy
Acceptance and Commitment therapy or ACT The goal of ACT is to create a rich and meaningful life, while accepting the pain that goes with it. It is only through mindful action that we can create a meaningful life. ACT…
Empathy and counselling
What is Empathy? Empathy has been described in different ways: walking in another's shoes, entering into another person's frame of reference or having the ability to experience life as the other person does by entering the person's world of thoughts,…
Counselling for Work-Related Stress
Work related stress is an increasingly common issue in today’s busy society. Health and Safety Executive figures for 2013/2014 indicate that ‘Stress, depression or anxiety and musculoskeletal disorders accounted for the majority of days lost due to work-related ill health.’…
Emotional Energy
During any given day your physical and emotional energy levels fluctuate, for some people it can be like the ebb and flow of a gentle tide, or for others it’s more like crashing waves, and then brief moments of quiet…