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...