Befriending Life Counselling & Ecotherapy

About

Specialties: Trauma Healing - The Poloyvagal Theory - Spirituality - Ecotherapy -

Do you live with the impacts of trauma or feel overwhelmed by life experience? Maybe you feel stuck with feelings of depression or anxiety and this has taken the joy out of your life?

I'm a warm, down to earth, empathic counsellor and ecotherapist. Offering a safe, kind and confidential space, supporting you to explore what's most needed.

About you 

Are you suffering from chronic stress, anxiety or depression or a whole host of other painful feelings like sadness and fear, anger, helplessness or numbness? Or are you finding it hard to deal with the current climate or ecological crisis?

Chronic stress profoundly changes the way you relate with yourself and others, making life feel like a constant challenge, while also impacting your health.

Imagine how would it be, if you could process past trauma or current chronic stress, compassionately? I will help you by teaching some simple psychoeducation and self care techniques. Which are aimed to support you to regulate, soothe and relieve stress within the nervous system. While you discover inner resources and skills that support your ability to navigate daily life with more ease, connection and well-being. 

My Approach

My approach is person centred, I believe kind, non-judgmental, honest and respectful relationship provides the right conditions, for our innate capacity for healing to thrive. As you explore what's most needed, I'll empathically feel and listen as you share. I'll often guide you to notice physical sensations, thoughts and feelings. As this mindful approach supports your innate ability, to reconnect with the bodies natural healing and integration capacities. 

I work with a Polyvagal approach to counselling. An understanding of how our autonomic nervous system (ANS) reacts to experiences, by initiating responses that help us navigate towards more safety. You've likely heard of the fight, flight and freeze responses.

Unfortunately; within our modern-day ways of living, it's common for these ANS responses to get stuck in the protective cycles of fight, flight or freeze. This leads to living a life, which is filled with chronic stress, feelings of anxiety or depression, fear and isolation. 

This is significant because when our nervous system is stuck in these defensive patterns, our body-mind is in a survival maintenance mode. Where our healing capacities, ability to thrive and enjoy life is profoundly reduced. 

However; when we do feel safe our body-mind naturally feels nourished by this, as we feel more connection, ease and well-being. Our body-mind naturally heals and repairs when we feel safe, at the root level of our biology. 

With a polyvagal approach to counselling, you can learn to become more aware of this process and develop new skills. Skills that support your body-mind to reconnect with safety, connection and well-being.

If you'd like to learn more about my approach, go to my website or call me / email me to arrange a free initial 30 min introductory appointment. 

My fee are:
£50 for one hour in person appointments
£45 for a one hour online or phone appointments.


Further contact details:
www.befriendinglife.org

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