Have you ever been truly understood, at a deep level? One of the most healing and empowering things we can do in this life is to tell our stories, really tell our stories!
Our entire lives are defined and understood through the lens of relationships, with ourselves and others. Attachments are biological (we are hard-wired to form relationships), but they’re also about what our deepest intuitions and longings are trying to tell us. Our attachments are made up of emotions, that drive our triggers and behaviours, especially in interactions with those closest to us. So it makes sense to understand our emotions deeply and, crucially to reshape our more painful experiences.
A key way in which I help to make sense of, and reshape emotions is by working with the nervous system which gives us a helpful roadmap to our stored up feelings.
Learning to tune into our nervous system gives us the opportunity to explore our held embodied emotional memories that, left unchecked, can lead to embodied danger cues (think fight or flight response for example).
Special attention is given to deep exploration of emotions, especially when faced with difficult and stressful life events, past and present. So our journey together would also involve finding the root emotions of profound experiences that lead to anxiety, depressions, loss, and trauma. And it’s often a revelation! And in so doing, shift deeply ingrained painful emotions into more helpful and bearable ways of understanding, making it easier to reframe those old, negative, psychological stories we tell ourselves – this time in a more powerful, constructive way.
I offer zoom or telephone sessions, as backup to bad weather or convenience.
I work as a counsellor in schools, offering both indoor and outdoor sessions.
As an experienced ‘indoor’ therapist, and after completing a year long certificate in ecotherapy, I have come to realise the power of being in nature, and that belief has led me to, where possible, offer sessions in green spaces.
KJM Counselling 