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.
My service is ideal for individuals who
Feel a sense of disconnection from their bodies or feel they are going straight into heightened emotional responses.
You want to explore a deeper, embodied approach to healing.
You seek to understand and work towards healing the mind-body connection.
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 be different about this. I will explore the supports you have in your life and gain some understanding of your own internal 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. I work through the lens of parts of self you can view some information on this style of therapy through this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzevlBt5HUA
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 of wellness. 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 anxiety/depression and body tension or 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 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 on 0438021157 or email: ella.smithcounselling@gmail.com for a free 10 minute consultation