Meet me your therapist!

I am a counsellor and hypnotherapist living and working from home. I have my own therapy room which is separate from the house here in Borth. I love meeting new people, I love to travel and see different places and I love yoga and walking. I have a real passion for...

Healing Trauma

Trauma can leave us with a very thin skin where we are easily upset by the smallest of things. It can make us feel pain more intensely, and can make us feel more anxious and hypervigilant. The pain of our experiences can be buried deep down in the subconscious mind...

Reiki with counselling

This blog feels a little bit like coming out of the spiritual closet, especially for those of you who have come for counselling, not necessarily understanding or have knowledge about my work as a Reiki teacher. As I am coming to the end of my Reiki teaching to focus...

Fate or Destiny?

How much influence do we really have on our lives? The scientific theory of cause and effect, thereof being what we sow, so shall we reap, and even thinking about what Newton said “for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction”, are all sayings that we may...

Social isolation and Anxiety

Social isolation is one of the most powerful, negative experience that causes a shorter life expectancy than smoking, obesity or diabetes. Humans rapidly degenerate into an immune-suppressive state in an environment of chronic social isolation. If we cannot talk to...

How can you write a journal for well-being?

When I first started my counselling and hypnotherapy training, I had to start a self-reflection journal based around what we were learning at the time. This was because some of the things we learnt about may trigger us and bring up issues that either we had buried or...

Using tarot in psychotherapy

Did you know that tarot cards have always had deep roots in psychological applications? Psychoanalyst Carl Jung explained that the cards were an easy way to represent the “archetypes of mankind” – or universal traits like strength, ambition and passion-in psychology,...

How I use EFT and NLP in counselling and hypnotherapy.

Over the last couple of months I have completed my EFT practitioner training and more recently done some CPD to update my knowledge in NLP. But what are these and how can I introduce them into both my hypnotherapy and counselling work? EFT (Emotional Freedom...

Relationships

Lockdown is difficult for many and the effects of lockdown can put a huge amount of pressure on a relationship. I have done a lot of work on myself over the years so consider myself very lucky in that I can often realise when I am projecting something of myself onto...

A little bit about me

When I turned 40 it was a turning point for me. I had been a mum, worked in childcare for many years, but also had this burning desire to turn my part time work which I loved and felt passionate about into more of a viable business. During my 40th year I got married...