The Ripple Effect

A comprehensive programme of Psycho-Emotional-Education

The ‘Whole-Brain And Holistic’ Approach to Balancing Your Moods

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“As soon as I wake up early in the morning I feel a whoosh of anxiety flood my body – it’s like a central heating boiler firing up, and I can’t shift it – it then stays with me all day, but just not as intensely.”

“I feel squashed under the heavy weight of an invisible opponent. It paralyses me. I can’t think or plan. I can hardly move my body. Everything feels like too much effort and just not worth it anyway.”

“It takes very little to shift me from coping with life to flipping out. I don’t seem to see it coming, or have any control over it when it takes over me – and my anger and rage then only makes things much worse for me.”

 

If you have a problem [Read more…]

Therapeutic Redundancy

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 My aim as a therapist is to become redundant as soon as possible, and to have been a catalyst for someone becoming clearer about the reasons for their difficulties, the effects these have had upon their life, and most importantly, what they can do to change them.

Some therapeutic approaches assume many months or years of attendance to explore the furthest corners of someone’s psyche – but who (other than a trainee therapist of such an approach) has the time, inclination or money for such extended and extensive therapy?

I once met a therapist at a conference who [Read more…]

Our First Session – ‘whole-brain and holistic’ reflections

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As we enter my workroom I notice their reaction to it, and I wonder if it fits their expectations – based upon the impressions they’ve had of me so far from my website, photo, name, address, voice, my management of their enquiry, and the ease of access to this room – my room that they have been invited into and where they may share some of their most vulnerable emotions and darkest thoughts. They will inevitably have been constructing a ‘me’ as much as I have been constructing a ‘them’ – although perhaps only subconsciously. [Read more…]

Our First Contact – ‘whole-brain and holistic’ reflections

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So, we’ve had an e-mail exchange – and sometimes this is enough to point someone in the right direction of alternative services, when I believe these to be more appropriate to their needs.

If we are to take things further we now need to speak and arrange to meet up. I always prefer to speak directly with the person themselves and not to a friend or relative – however well-meaning they are. Their own voice gives me many more clues, and perhaps questions, about them. [Read more…]

The Whole Brain And Holistic way of helping others.

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Over the coming weeks I’ll be writing about my ‘Whole Brain And Holistic’ approach to psychological, emotional and physical well-being. I want to share with you how I work in a whole-brain way…with my left-brain gathering facts, information, noticing the details, creating plans and structure; and my right-brained ‘felt sense’ of the client (or group attendee), of my own inner bodily reactions and sensations, imaginings, hunches, intuition, physical boundaries, the bigger-picture and context of the client, and any trans-personal or spiritual aspects that may emerge between us. [Read more…]

HOW THE RIPPLE EFFECTS YOU

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Over the last 20 years or so I’ve met too many people who’ve had months or even years of meandering and expensive counselling, and yet they still had their anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, patterns of dysfunctional relationships, and self-abuse.

I’ve also had many clients myself who have wanted to know why they had their own particular problems; and was this ‘normal’ (based upon their own set of circumstances – not that I think there is any such thing as ‘normal’ anyway…instead I would use the term ‘only to be expected’); and what they could do about it: and what a new and better way of behaving and relating to themselves and others might actually be, and feel, like for them. [Read more…]