core process psychotherapy
By being mindful, we are able to take a breath and make space for ourselves, without being defined by our problems. Cultivating awareness can be life changing; it allows us to meet the world from a place of health, instead of a place of reaction. Core Process Psychotherapy offers a safe, non- judgmental space, where we can notice past conditioning with compassion. It supports us to act from a more fluid and creative approach to life, and not based on our past experience. This can help with a variety of issues, like depression and anxiety, eating disorders, self-esteem and relationship difficulties. It guides us in discovering who we really are and what our true potential is.
EFT (emotional freedom technique)
Emotional Freedom Technique (also known as tapping) is a ‘modern meridian therapy’ which has its roots in acupressure and shiatsu. Fingertips are used to tap on meridian points whilst focusing on the problem (emotional or physical), releasing negative feelings, emotions and rebalancing the energy system of the body.
hakomi
Hakomi is a method of assisted self-discovery which uses the client’s present-moment experience. Bodily sensations, the mind-body connection, and mindfulness are used to explore client experience with the goal of greater ease and freedom of choice — it’s suitable for those wishing to explore emotion held in the body, as well as thoughts, beliefs, and patterns hovering outside conscious awareness. Hakomi emphasises loving presence on the part of the practitioner, an attitude of experimentation, and acceptance of all parts of the human experience.
hypnotherapy: solution focused hypnotherapy
Solution Focused Hypnotherapy combines the use of psychotherapy with hypnotherapy. Hypnotherapy also referred to as ‘trance’ is a very natural, relaxing state, encouraged by using guided relaxation and visualisation, where the mind can relax and then focus on thoughts and suggestions that might be useful to a client. As a modern psychotherapeutic approach, Solution Focused Hypnotherapy uses practical, structured, and well-researched strategies to help people make significant, positive changes in their lives in a relatively short period of time.
In SFH sessions therapist looks at what the client wants to achieve (the solution), rather than at what prompted them to seek help (the problem). Solution Focused Hypnotherapy uses a specific structure, which incorporates several aspects of Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) and combines these with an understanding of how the brain works and trance.
Solution Focused Hypnotherapy is also different, as it doesn’t require the therapist to analyse a person’s past, as this is not deemed necessary to help the person make plans for how they want to move forward in their lives. Through working with the client in a collaborative way, Solution Focused Hypnotherapists can also help with: stress and anxiety, depression, confidence + self esteem, fears, phobias and smoking cessation.
intuitive coaching + healing
This treatment is a journey on self-discovery, exploring places clients might not have known existed in themselves, helping them to understand how to find acceptance for who they really are, and integrating that into their world at large. Learning how everything is connected is paramount as awareness is curative. Whether you are stuck in a pattern or your unresolved past is hampering your present life, these sessions can help you find balance and greatly improve the quality of life.
integrative counselling and psychotherapy
Integrative counselling and psychotherapy can help with:
- Anxiety – panic, worry, sleep problems, social + dating anxiety, fear of the future stress and coping strategies, obsessions, OCD, hoarding, addictions
- Relationships – infidelity, arguing, cross-cultural communication, marriage, civil partnerships, divorce, children, workplace conflict
- Depression – sadness, lethargy, self-criticism, shame, guilt, humiliation, loneliness
- Identity – culture, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, transgender or gender fluid, masculinity, femininity
- Childhood trauma, birth trauma and trauma
- Low-confidence, shame
- Loss, bereavement and grief – sadness, anger, mood swings, loss of relationship, break-ups
- Motherhood and parenting, miscarriage, abortion, perinatal + postnatal anxiety and depression, fertility issues, menopause
- Body confidence – eating disorders, self-harm, insomnia, IBS, chronic illness
mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
mindfulness birth + parenting coaching
Mindfulness based childbirth and parenting is an evidence-based approach to reduce pre-natal anxiety and depression. The course covers practical ways to reduce reactions to stress, sensations, manage the pain/strong sensations of birth and the demands of being a mother as well as all the other relationships. This is a practical, systemic approach to the adventure delights and difficulties of motherhood and parenting. a practical, systemic approach to the adventure delights and difficulties of motherhood and parenting.
This 9 week program is facilitated with a course book, guided meditations, movements, formal/informal meditations, pain and strong sensation management, quick stress reducers, and compassion.
- Tame stress, anxiety, fears, strong sensations and pain in pregnancy, childbirth and parenting
- Develop the art of communication with yourself, partner and support team
- Discover, listen, feel connection with your baby every day.
- Gain understanding of child development
- Revive the innate wisdom of your body, heart and mind
- Understand the patterns of your mind, thoughts and freedom of choice
- Cultivate wellbeing and prevent ill health
- Reduce drastically anxiety, depression and reduce stress
- Enhance attachment and bonding between parent and infants
- Develop a useful approach to manage the challenges of parenting more effectively
- Evidence based approach to reducing perinatal anxiety and postnatal depression developed by Oxford Mindfulness Centre at Oxford University
self-development coaching
This eclectic approach to self-development is tailored to the individual and can help with current issues (emotional, practical or both) and work towards future goals. By looking at their whole self clients can find a way to move forward authentically and also learn new tools they can use in their own time to access their own inner resources, becoming more self-reliant and empowered as they do so. Suzanne is the author of The Art of Coming Home, a guide to self-development which is grounded in her experience as a coach and alternative therapist.
solution focused life coaching
A life coach works to support clients in making changes they wish to make in their lives. Together we create a detailed, accomplishable plan of action to progress things forward, moving from a place of longing to a place of being. Inspiring and supporting clients to make dreams take shape by completing weekly tasks and taking action where resistance or fear may have thwarted all the best heart felt efforts. Restoring confidence and purpose through mindfully doing, one step at a time.
tarot reading
Originally derived from a mid-15th century Italian divination game, tarot uses a series of universal pictorial archetypes as a way of accessing information that may be outside your conscious awareness. There are 78 cards in the tarot deck, all of which have upright and reversed meanings, as well as endless patterns into which they can be arranged depending on the information sought. People who come for a tarot reading are often seeking clarity or additional information about life issues. Popular topics are romance, major life decisions, house moves, career and so on. Tarot readings can help you to back up your own intuition about a situation or give a fuller picture of an issue. Tarot readings translate really well online — you can see the cards and the reader, and establish a connection successfully over the internet.
