Individual sessions
Together we explore how your body holds memories and emotions, gentle ways to release tension and restore balance and provide tools for you to build deeper awareness and resilience. This integrated approach empowers you to heal not just through words but through your own embodied experience. I welcome all genders and diversity into my practice. For your consideration I work through the lens of parts of self, the mind-body connection, shame legacies, trauma legacies and compassionately stepping into embodied self responsibility.
My service is ideal for individuals who
Feel a sense of disconnection from their bodies.
You want to explore a deeper, embodied approach to self capacity building.
You seek to understand your unique family of origin legacies and how this impacts you ongoing through the presenting patterns in your life
I do require us to have a 10 minute phone or zoom consultation first to discuss what you are hoping to work through in therapy. I will then send you an email with information including an intake form so I can add your basic details to my secure online record keeping system.
The first session is mostly about developing an understanding of what it is that is challenging you and how this is impacting your life and what you would like to build capacity around. We will explore from where you are at now and deepen the understanding of your own internal and external resources (you don’t have to know what these are I can guide you through this process) so we understand how we can maintain/develop a sense of feeling more grounded during and after sessions.
During the following sessions I will provide you with a space to explore your more vulnerable aspects of self and individualised strategies that we can trial to assist you in your journey. This could be through exploring where tension is being held in the body and how to explore this in safer ways, working through intrusive thoughts/memories, your nervous system responses, connecting to and exploring intense emotional responses inclusive of numbing, disassociating and body tension and talking through your experiences.
I have a soft tone phone alarm that will signal we have ten minutes left in the session. As the session comes closer to ending we can briefly reflect on the session I can assist you with re-centering, re-grounding and if you choose you can provide a few words to describe your experience as the session closes.
Please consider if you are ready to commit the time and exploratory practices to your own healing. Contact me via email: ella.smithcounselling@gmail.com for a free 10 minute consultation