Welcome – I’m Amanda

Do you feel stressed, tired and overwhelmed or find it difficult to relax? You may be considering exploring new opportunities and wanting to move away from outdated patterns within a safe, non-judgemental environment. Your workplace, surgery or college may have recommended counselling or mindfulness training as part of a CPD or support package. 

Specialising in stress reduction and psychoeducation, I have over 20 years’ experience working in the counselling, holistic wellbeing and education sectors. Common presentations, and services provided include: 

- Occupational burnout and stress

- Physical symptoms of stress and coping strategies

- Boundaries and safety

- Emotional stress trauma responses, recognition and management (fight, flight, fawn, freeze, flop)

-  Psychoeducation: With documentation, models etc

- Identity, acceptance and compassion

- Exploring diversity, neurodiversity, SEN, ADHD, gender, faith, creativity etc

- Autopilot and outdated patterns - managing change

- Perfectionism, negative thought loops

- Mindfulness, relaxation, meditation and breathwork

- Counsellors and therapists in training requiring therapy

- Holistic and somatic approaches; Energy/Reiki practices

- Creativity: drawing, craft, journaling, sand and stone work

- Eco outdoors, nature and green therapy, labyrinth

- Sound baths (individual and group)

- Training, workshops and professional CPD: Group and 1 to 1

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~ Linkedin

COUNSELLING and PSYCHOLOGICAL THERAPIES

~ One to one psychotherapy, counselling, coaching and mindfulness for stress reduction. Modalities are integrative and include person centred, Gestalt, DBT, creative arts, compassion and heart centred

~ In-clinic (Stirchley/Bournville) 

~ Eco/nature therapy: outdoors, seasonal, labyrinth

~ Community, festival and corporate partnership work

~ Sound baths can be incorporated into sessions, or as a stand alone session for individuals or groups

~ Psycoeducation: Worksheets available. Training

~ Teacher/lecturer. Workshops. Collaborations.

~ Online (Zoom or WhatsApp)

HOLISTIC SOMATIC THERAPIES and MINDFULNESS

~ Mindfulness: Practice and training. Includes body scan, meditation, sound and movement

~ Clinical holistic somatic therapies: Bodywork mind/body integration. FHT registered holistic therapist including aromatherapy massage, reflexology, face and head work

~ UK Reiki Federation registered; energy and reiki, teaching

~ Sound baths (individual and group). Workshops

~ Specialise in stress reduction and fatigue

ECO NATURE THERAPIES

I offer one to one and group counselling in outdoor spaces, engaging with the natural world, resources and environments. We can walk and talk, practice mindfulness for relaxation and create natural art. The natural world contains metaphor and symbolism that provides alternative ways to communicate and express oneself.  

Indoor and outdoor therapeutic and transpersonal work has included collaborations with the National Trust, local authorities, Wimpey Homes, NHS, Woodbrooke Quaker College, chaplaincy/Church of England, Glastonbury Temple and events, Glastonbury Festival and many other nationwide wellbeing festivals. Also Forest Church, moon lodges and Red Tent women's groups.