What’s Your Therapy?

In this week's episode I am talking to my friend Natasha Crompton, owner of Intrinsic Therapies. Natasha is a therapist who works with crystals, energy and reiki amongst other modalities to support her clients. We go on a journey in this episode from early childhood when Natasha discovered she could see other people's energy and angels through to her experience as an army kid, right through to adult hood with how crystals have supported her in her life. Natasha shares with us how she uses crystals as part of her practice and also how she is able to weave distance healing into the work she does. We discuss cold water therapy which is something important to us both and the importance of grounding. I hope you enjoy this episode and everything Natasha has to share.  

About Natasha:
Natasha Crompton is a Crystal Reiki Energy Practiotioner, Guide and Healer providing Holistic empowerment for you and your family. Based in South Birmingham, Natasha offers complete Holistic Experiences from her garden retreat and sessions online. She is also offering a Kids Well-being Retreat called 'Little People, Big Dreams'. This retreat has been developed to help children of all ages feel more rested, reassured, calm, confident and resilient.
Website: www.intrinsictherapies.co.uk
Facebook: @intrinsictherapies
Instagram: @intrinsictherapies

In this week's episode I talk to sex therapist Becky Price about what her work entails and how people have a view about 'doing sex the right way'. Becky asks us to consider who makes the rules around sex and how to create your own experience that meets your needs. We discuss connection, intimacy and pleasure and what the common things we are looking for from sex with someone else and sex with self. She also tells us the common worries she comes across from her clients. We have a frank discussion about some of the issues with sex education in schools and finally we talk about tantra. This is a frank and open discussion that I hope will help you to think about what sex means to you and how you can enjoy it on your terms.

About Becky:
Becky Price is the owner of Conscious Bliss, and teacher with Shakti Tantra.  She provides coaching, education and bodywork to people wishing to support and better understand the erotic pleasure in their bodies. Through this work she enables people to deeply transform all aspects of their lives.

Website: http://consciousbliss.co.uk/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100046417340816
Instagram: www.instagram.com/consciousbliss_uk

Welcome to Season 2 of 'What's Your Therapy?'. I can't wait to share with you my guests for this season. 

In today's episode I talk to Bridgit Walford all about the counselling space she established called the Eaves. We hear the reason Bridgit set it up and the ethos of  a group of professionals coming together and helping one another. We discuss how they support clients to find the right therapy for them and also how the counselling sector has changed over the years and the demand increased. I hope you enjoy the final episode of this season.

About Bridgit:
Co-founder and Owner, The Eaves Counselling & Psychology. Accredited counsellor and Supervisor
Website: www.theeaves.org.uk

In this week's episode I am talking to actress and yoga teacher Jade Coles. We discuss everything from yoga and running to stand up comedy. Hear how Jade took comedy classes in New York and how she feels about laughter and the energy that comes from an audience. We also talk about Vinyasa yoga and the link between breath and movement, the differences between teaching in person and online and how she uses yoga as a stress reliever. Finally we discuss yoga and hormones and how important it is to work with out cycle.

I hope you enjoy this week's episode.

Contact Jade:
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/yoganaflow
Website: https://www.yoganaflow.com/

In today's episode I talk to Anne Head about her therapy EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing) and how it relates to shifting trauma. 

We talk about :
- changing memories from dysfunctional memories to normal memories
- how we hold trauma memories
- how the eye movement shifts information
- how it differs from talking therapy and can be complimentary to it
- the history of EMDR

This is such a powerful therapy and so different from other therapies. I would love to hear your thoughts on it. 

To contact Anne:
https://theeaves.org.uk/practitioners/anne-head/

In this week's episode I am talking to my friend and breathwork teacher Brian Morrison. We discuss how the work he does impacted me throughout lockdown, how his early life growing up in Northern Ireland impacted him. Brian introduces us to Wim Hof's techniques as we talk about the mixture of cold water exposure, mindset and breathwork. We discuss unchosen identities, how stress impacts the body and what cold water exposure can teach us to rectify this and also his journey with plant based medicine. This is one not to be missed and I can't wait to introduce you to someone who has such a powerful impact on individuals.

About Brian:
Brian is a Breathwork and Wim Hof Method Instructor.
Website: www.thebreathingproject.org
Instagram: @breathingproject

In this week's episode I talk to Sarah Child all about couples counselling. We're going to talk openly about what it is like to work with couples rather than an individual. We've been through a difficult couple of years and this has tested some relationships and strengthened others and Sarah tells us of some of the impacts she has seen for couples. We discuss the practicalities of counselling couples including how she sets the scene, contracting with the couple, tasks  and exercises used and how she remains neutral with the couple. So let's learn together how behaviours impact relationships and how to put the relationship itself at the centre of the session.

About Sarah:
As a therapist I work with both individuals and couples. In offering couples therapy my aim is to provide you with a safe, private space to explore any issues or concerns within your relationship. It is an opportunity to gain new perspectives of each other and learn new ways of being together. This is often enabled by improving communication and exploring differences, conflict styles, intimacy and identifying both partners wants and needs.

My role as your therapist is to support you both in a caring and non judgemental way, to facilitate good communication between you and help you find the way forward that is right for each of you.

Website: https://www.flourishcounselling.net

In this week's episode I interview the wonderful Neeley Moore. Neeley talks to me about her journey from addiction through the 12 steps to healing her inner child and dealing with trauma. Throughout this work Neeley discovered that there was a feeling a wanting a child of her own and she discusses her path of egg donation IVF and how this impacted her.  We talk about hormones at all stages of life, how important identity is and how this can change with big life events and finally about compassionate enquiry. 

There are some strong messages within this episode for women's health, wellbeing and identities. I hope that this resonates with you.

About Neeley:
Neeley’s therapeutic private practice is founded upon a constellation into wholeness. 
Anchored within the depth of both her professional trainings as a reflexologist and a compassionate Inquirer, to her personal experiences from childhood trauma and addiction. 
Neeley wholeheartedly resonates with Dr Gabor Mate in that “we can only take our clients as far as we have gone ourselves”. This deep felt sense approach is a returning to your essence of love, where your inner and outer scars are signs of your souls courage .

Instagram: Mother_heartivf

In this week's episode I talk to Josh Le Mon who has a wide range of experiences in different sectors working with children, young people and adults. We talk about the importance of building trust with young people to build the counselling relationship, the importance of grounding techniques and the difference between working with male and female young people. We discuss what impact the pandemic has had on people he works with who have autism and how it has also impacted how young people chose to engage with him. Josh also shares his story of what drew him to work in therapy and his upbringing within Rastafarianism.  This is such an insightful discussion.

About Josh:
I am a registered member of the BACP with over 10 years of experience in the mental health profession. I have had the privilege of working with a wide range of people, such as: young people, older people, adults, and families. I have worked in settings such as: schools, college’s, charities, and communities with people from differing social, economic, and cultural backgrounds. As a result, I have experience of working with issues such as: Trauma, Addiction, Family dynamics, Depression, Anxiety, Adverse Childhood Experience’s and more.

Alongside working privately, I currently work with a local authority supporting families to help improve mental health, through the way they relate to each other. In addition, I volunteer for a charity providing long and short-term counselling to adults and older people via face to face, virtual or via telephone.

I use an integrative relational approach that has 2 main elements, which include: How past experiences and/or relationships is impacting on present day life. And whether one is currently living life true to how they want to live their life. Through discourse, I work by exploring what is preventing someone from living a life that is authentic to them.

Website: https://jlm-therapy.com/