What does therapy offer?

Therapy offers a confidential & professional service, which is private - we work collaboratively together & with respect.

What does creativity offer?

Creativity offers an amazing space to work with the unconscious and conscious which may be stuck. It can be challenging to work just verbally & cognitively. The integration of creativity into therapy sessions comes as a potent tool for encouraging change.

It facilitates transformative change in our lives that sometimes talking therapies alone can`t always reach.

When words fall short, creativity often steps in to bridge the gap.

Quiet time, creativity, nature & other alternate therapies can serve as a powerful tool in the therapeutic process. It allows individuals to explore their complex inner world. It can help us to process complex, difficult, or blocked emotions, & achieve peace & clarity, which helps us to move forward naturally.

Working with Mind & Body together

Understanding the meaning we give our thoughts/beliefs & how they show up in the body & then translate into behaviour it valuable.

Would you like to wake up your senses, reconnect & create a sense of harmony, no matter what is going on in your life?

Differentiation focuses on helping you to tolerate anxiety while facing issues head on & all the while improving your ability to self soothe. This repairs, heals and allows you to be free & authentic. It also involves improving your ability to hold onto your sense of self while maintaining the relationship that is in front of you. This also requires you to be able to balance your needs, while sitting in a difficulty, whether that is with some else or a situation - this helps us keep our autonomy & relationship with ourself & others in balance.

Awakening to Reality:

The cherry blossom tree has to shed it`s flowers to be able to grow new ones next year - learning to let go gracefully.

Our internal landscape can dictate our behaviour, often without us consciously realising it. So when we are able to wake up, we learn what serves us well - practice what nourishes us, rather than what is depleting.

Which path do you choose = the success or failure path and what's the difference? What makes us fall off the path?

The conditioned mind: We perceive the world through our lens, through our experiences our brains developed - we have the option to awaken from our minds past construction. What was ‘learnt’, can be ‘unlearnt’. As the saying goes - what fires, wires, meaning what you are thinking creates your pathways.

When you change habits, your brain rewires. We can learn to be selective, because the mind wants to go back to what is familiar, which isn`t always what we want going forwards.

Become your own master to yourself - making better choices.

The Work:

Its not easy to go through therapy, &, keep going……… but the rewards are amazing.

Let’s see through our own smoke screens, overcome our own obstacles and learn new ways, with the help of creativity.

We can peel the layers off, that no longer serve you well. (The mind can sometimes reflect the scar, every time you do something different, you are building new and different for your life moving forwards).

We often seem to chase things to try to be happy, only to find they give limited happiness & then quickly it goes.

When we see well - we choose well.

Life can sometimes hold up a mirror for our awakening if we are ready to see it.

The moment in front of us is the only moment we have to make a choice, a different choice which serves us well.

If the past calls, let it go to voicemail, coz it has nothing new to say & creativity can help us turn it into our gift, rather than the chains that hold us back.

When we`ve had trauma we often get stuck in the pain (unprocessed material) & stay stuck in the distress, then the body reacts to this - it can become a vicious circle.

“I am a collection of all my life, of my life’s experiences, my trainings, including all of the teachers who have impacted me along the way, nothing is separate from the other”, Sharon Mills.

We often keep falling into old patterns and then become hard on ourselves - we will work on seeing these patterns more deeply and clearly so that we are able to cross over the pavement and not fall in each time.

“I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I fall in.
I am lost... I am helpless.
It isn't my fault.
It takes forever to find a way out.

I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I pretend I don't see it.
I fall in again.
I can't believe I am in the same place.
But, it isn't my fault.
It still takes me a long time to get out.

I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I see it is there.
I still fall in. It's a habit.
My eyes are open.
I know where I am.
It is my fault. I get out immediately.

I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I walk around it.

I walk down another street.”
―Portia Nelson, There's a Hole in My Sidewalk: The Romance of Self-Discovery

There is a saying in Buddhism “No mud, no lotus.” The lotus flower blossoms in the mud, opening up and blossoming there in the mud. Finding inner bliss & peace while we may come from muddy places.

Finding our infinite treasure from deep inside of us helps us to set ourselves free and live an authentic life …………….

“Trauma is not what happens to you. Trauma is what happens inside you, as a result of what happens to you.”

— Gabor Maté

Differentiation is the ability to balance the autonomy and the attachment so it is not an either/or. The ability to not be caught up in our childhood drama when the triggers in the now, trigger something from the past – being free to respond in the now.

“Stagnation is the foundation of all pathology”, The yellow emperor`s classic of medicine, by Maoshing N.I.