The Autumn series of the Quiet Zone is on again with the first offering at the Hobart Breathing Space this Friday 25th March. A place to find solace and rest, in the midst of an increasingly fast paced and distressing world. All welcome!
Come to The Quiet Zone to find space and solace from everyday life. Helen will play harp, singing bowls and gentle percussion, composed especially for the session. While you are immersed in this sound experience, Kathy will guide you through meditation, mindfulness and breathing. All offered in a ca...
06/10/2021
Tulip Tree Therapy may have been a bit quiet on the socials of late but there has been much happening behind the scenes. Extending an invitation to you to take time out, enter the 'Quiet Zone' and find restorative rest through the beauty of harp music combined with meditation.
The Quiet Zone - Come to a relaxation session with harp and singing bowls. RESCHEDULED FOR FRIDAY NOVEMBER 26, 6.00 - 7.30pm. Step into the beautiful Hobart Breathing Space, 13b Goulburn Street, Hobart to a sanctuary of calm and relaxation with sound and music. Work with experienced facilitators Helen Morrison (music educator) and Kathy Stephenson (counsellor) to create your own interlude of sound and stillness. Be guided through short mindfulness and breath awareness activities to the sounds of live harp music. Build skills in relaxation to take into your everyday life. Start your weekend in a nurturing, relaxing and supportive environment. Enjoy the perfect combination of harp music paired with guided exercises in breathing and mindfulness. Bookings: trybooking.com/BTZJR $35.00. See you there!
02/04/2020
The sense of restriction and containment from our usual freedoms and contact with loved ones may bring with it a sense of loss and grief. This article offers some useful insights and ideas on how to support yourself and others. www.tuliptreetherapy.com
18/02/2020
Emotions need to be named, validated, and listened to for many reasons. Our emotions need tending too, as over time, not doing so may open the door for chronic anxiety, depression and chronic illness to be ever present in our lives. www.tuliptreetherapy.com
Emotions need to be named, validated, and listened to for many reasons. First and foremost, emotions need tending so we don’t get chronically anxious and/or depressed. As this clever drawing from shows (thank you Mily!), when emotions are ignored, avoided, or buried with defenses like ruminations, isolation, muscular tension, addictions, obsessions, depression, and the like, we feel unwell and cheat ourselves out of maximum wellbeing.
The reason I’m so passionate about the Change Triangle (the best tool/map I’ve come across to work with our emotions and the protective defenses we use to avoid them) is that it’s a guide for emotional awareness. It prompts us to listen to our body to discover our core emotions. Once we sense them physically (emotions live in the body), we can name them. There’s often immediate relief there. Learn more about emotions. You’ll be amazed on what you come to understand about yourself and relieved that there’s much we can do to feel better and thrive in life.
Or visit hilaryjacobshendel.com and the Change Triangle YouTube channel for a multitude of FREE resources.
12/02/2020
Good morning from Tulip Tree Therapy. Hope you find these words on healing helpful. www.tuliptreetherapy.com
30/01/2020
There is a good kind of waiting
which trusts the agents of fermentation.
There is a waiting
which knows that in pulling away
one can more wholly return.
There is the waiting
which prepares oneself,
which anoints and adorns
and makes oneself plump
with readiness for love’s return.
There is a good kind of waiting
which doesn’t put oneself on hold
but rather adds layers to the grandness
of one’s being worthy.
This sweet waiting
for one’s fruits to ripen
doesn’t stumble over itself
to be the first to give
but waits for the giving
to issue at its own graceful pace.
From Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home by Toko-pa Turner (BelongingBook.com)
Illustration by T. Dylan Moore
16/01/2020
Some thoughts and reflections on Grief.
Good Morning from Tulip Tree Therapy. www.tuliptreetherapy.com
Grief connects us to what we cherish. It is only through that connection that we know how to move forward. In this way, grief is motion.
07/01/2020
First hello for 2020 from Tulip Tree Therapy with a reflection on goodbyes.
Goodbye to those pursuits and aspirations that disconnect us from self, to others and to all that is 'simple and 'just so' in our lives. www.tuliptreetherapy.com.au
In the words of 'Open Passages' author Susan Frybort, "Some things are to be tenderly held, saved... treasured and loved for what they were. Then there are things that can clutter up and stuff. I feel vitality again, when I let them go. Lighter. Ready to meet with further callings, other keys, and those tireless dreams..." Check out Susan's Poetry Healing Course. It begins this Tuesday, January 7th! Available to students anywhere in the world... https://www.soulshapinginstitute.com/events/the-poetry-healing-course-2/
28/11/2019
A challenging piece that argues that in this climate of positive psychology and emphasis on HEALING as the ultimate goal, may defeating and unattainable for some. Sometimes the receipt of presence, compassion, comfort and care is a greater gift.
Good Morning from Tulip Tree Therapy. www.tuliptreetherapy.com
Not everyone will heal in this lifetime. It’s important that we accept and understand this. The perpetual emphasis on acknowledging and healing trauma is a beautiful thing, but its not for everyone. Because some of us don’t have the capacity to heal. Some can’t even get out of bed, because of the weight of their pain and the complexity of their trauma. Too much has happened, and there is no possibility of transformation. This is very hard to accept in our toxic positivity culture, one where trauma is the new buzz word and where people forget that they are not walking in someone’s else’s shoes. Just because you were able to heal parts of your past, doesn’t mean everyone can heal parts of theirs. We have all lived in a trauma inducing culture. Some of us didn’t make it through in one piece. That’s a fact. And if we can just accept this, and honor and comfort them as they are without any effort to ‘heal’ them, we actually stand a chance of co-creating the kind of trauma-sensitive world that avoids this level of suffering altogether. Because trauma is perpetuated by insensitivity. Our tendency to turn a blind eye to the truth of people’s suffering, to shame them for not healing, to blame it on their karma and their choices, is precisely the dissociative consciousness that perpetuates the trauma cycle. You want to help, but you just make it worse. Better to accept people right where they are. Better to provide comfort to the fallen ones. That alone will heal the world.
22/10/2019
Greetings from Tulip Tree Therapy on such a beautiful sunny day! Some great tips on activating your vagus nerve in the quest to reduce stress and anxiety. www.tuliptreetherapy.com
Stimulation of my vagus nerve has played a key role in the management of my anxiety and mental health over the years. What exactly is the vagus nerve? The vagus nerve is the longest cranial nerve in your body.
08/10/2019
Good Morning to you all from Tulip Tree Therapy. Be kind to your sleeping heart on this beautiful spring day. www.tuliptreetherapy.com
“Awake, my dear. Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light, and let it breath.”
Hafiz
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Counselling Service located in the beautiful Huon Valley
Hello, I’m Kathy from Tulip Tree therapy, a counsellor with over 20 years experience in community health services, having worked for both the government and non government sector in Tasmania. Trauma support, sexual health, alcohol and drug, homelessness and family violence counselling are specialist areas in which I have worked. In addition, I have provided education, health promotion, community development and middle management services to workplaces.
Supporting my work experience has been a process of continuing education where I have obtained a number of professional qualifications with more recent awards including a Graduate Certificate in Somatic Therapy and Master of Counselling from Monash University. I am also a member of the Psychotherapist and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA Reg. Provisional 24813) and as such engage in regular supervision and continuing education.
I am able to draw on a range of therapeutic approaches including Person Centred Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Cognitive & Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
I have a particular interest in somatic psychotherapy in recognition that so many of us who experience trauma, grief or emotional distress will ultimately carry the responses to those experiences not only emotionally but also within our bodies. Thus, counselling as a verbal therapy may be only one part of a therapeutic process. In order to tap into the emotional material we hold within each of us, it may be useful to bring our attention to our bodies and gain familiarity with how our body speaks to us when we are activated and troubled by past or current events.
Somatic awareness not only provides us with useful information about our emotions and physical patterns of response but also provides a pathway to recognise when we are emotionally activated and a tool to self-regulate when our responses are becoming overwhelming and intrusive in our lives.
When seeking support from Tulip Tree Therapy you can be assured that a professional, confidential and inclusive service will be offered. Whether you seek support for anxiety, depression, self-esteem, grief, loss, trauma, alcohol and drug counselling, sexuality and gender issues, adjusting to life stage change, workplace stress or any other issue, you will be afforded a service that draws on a range of therapeutic approaches, that is strengths based and underpinned by my personal ethics of social justice and equity.
A counselling session of 1 hour duration costs $90 per hour. A reduced fee of $70 per hour will be applied to Health Care holders. Visits can be structured to suit your income and commitments. Some Medibank Private policy holders will be entitled to a health rebate. All queries are welcome.
