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🤍 Solas Counselling 🤍
Helping individuals & couples navigate life’s challenges with care

✨Airdrie & Ayr for face2face sessions

📍 Ayr – Counselling rooms available for rent

📩 Text or email to book your session or enquire: 07719455114

Sally 🤍

12/12/2025

🎄 Christmas Promotion – Today Only 🎄

I’m taking part in the Hive Magical Christmas Celebration Today ✨

What’s on offer:
🤍 20-minute FREE counselling session
🤍 Two HALF-PRICE counselling sessions
  (must be booked by 31st January 2026)
🤍 A free wellness gift

If you’ve been thinking about counselling, this is a gentle, no-pressure way to try it and see if it feels right for you.

Come along for a chat today.

Sally 🎅🏼🎄🎅🏼🎄












12/12/2025

See you all there 🎄🎅🏼🎄🎅🏼

11/12/2025

Who is joining me tomorrow for magical Christmas celebrations at the the hive.

Everyone is welcome to come along and see what’s on offer from all the amazing women who are working hard here to build their businesses.












09/12/2025

I’m loving getting myself up and out for reformer Pilates. It’s been great for that mental and physical boost which keeps me going all the way to 9pm.

Before I felt so tired after 5pm and still would have 2-3 clients to see. Now I don’t experience this slump and feel great all the way to the end of my day.

Also, in other yoga news, I’m going to be teaching a yoga class at 10am in every Tuesday. I look forward to seeing you all there.

Sally 🤍🙏🏼🤍















08/12/2025

Lately I’ve been noticing something very quiet, very tender in my body.

Not a big breakthrough.
Not a grand moment.
Just…
ease.
Little pockets of calm where there used to be tension.
Feelings arriving and then softly passing through.
Activation that doesn’t grip quite as tightly.

It has reminded me of something important:

The nervous system doesn’t heal through force.
It heals through gentleness.

Through
🌿 slow mornings
🌿 breaths that don’t rush
🌿 moments of kindness toward ourselves
🌿 letting emotions move without needing to fix them
🌿 choosing rest before collapse
🌿 letting the body know we’re here, and we’re listening

Healing isn’t dramatic.
Most days it looks like tiny shifts that barely make a sound.

If you’re in a season of relearning safety, go gently.
Your system isn’t asking for perfection, just presence.

And every small moment of softness counts, every time you speak gently to the process counts.

Sally 🤍🤍🤍












04/12/2025

Feeling it right now for sure, this time of year, the extra we have to do and throw in a daughter’s 30th birthday and we have exhaustion.

I am reflecting on this time last year, I was in the midst of closing my yoga and wellness studio, love your mind body and soul - a dream I had since undertaking my yoga teacher training in Bali in 2023.

I was completely burnout and done in and looking forward to a change of direction.

This year has given me that, I live a slow life in Ayr and this gives me time to stop and enjoy life more and if I’m thinking about 2025! It’s still been challenging but in different ways, I’m hoping 2026 challenges are not huge life lessons which seems to be the theme of this year and I think we can all feel that in one way or another eh? Year of the snake and all that 🐍

Anyway onwards and upwards, 2 weeks left of working and then 2 weeks off.
Let’s get through it together 🤍🤍🤍

Sally 🤍🤍🤍












28/11/2025

✨ Last Weekend Before December ✨

If you’re feeling tired, emotional, overwhelmed, or just a bit “off”… you’re not alone.
This weekend always lands differently.

When the year starts to wind down, your nervous system stops running on adrenaline and finally tells the truth:
• the tension you’ve held
• the emotions you pushed through
• the loneliness that crept in
• the stress you carried quietly
• the masks you wore to cope

It all shows up now — not because you’re breaking, but because your body finally feels safe enough to speak.

This is the part of the year where people think they’re “failing”… when actually, they’re unravelling in the best possible way.
A soft exhale.
A tiny wobble.
A reminder that you’re human.

If things feel heavy, you don’t have to wait until January.

On Thursday 12th December, at The Hive in Airdrie, I’m offering:

✨ Free 20-minute face-to-face sessions
✨ A space to ask questions about counselling
✨ A small wellness gift
✨ Two half-price sessions if taken before 31st January

If you’ve been thinking about support, clarity, or just a safe space to breathe… this might be the moment.
Gentle steps. Not big leaps.
Your nervous system will thank you.










27/11/2025

✨ Your Nervous System Isn’t Dramatic, It’s Communicating ✨

Some days you feel steady. Other days your heart races, your stomach tightens, or your throat pulls in.

Nothing’s wrong with you.
Your body is simply delivering information.

When you stop fighting the signals and start listening to them, everything shifts.
That’s where self-trust grows, not from silence, but from understanding your own inner language.

Be gentle with yourself today. You’re not “too much.” You’re finally hearing the truth beneath the noise.










26/11/2025

🧁✨ The Sponge Muffin of Self-Worth ✨🧁

I often describe self-worth like a little sponge muffin — simple, sweet, and surprisingly wise.

The sponge is the life you craft from the inside out.
It rises because you tend to it with love, steadiness, and devotion.
Your resilience, your routines, your gentle showing-up — that’s what helps it lift.

Not someone else’s approval.
Not someone else’s attention.
Not someone else’s behaviour.

Just you.

The icing is the magic you add to your own world —
the gym sessions that clear your mind,
the yoga that brings you home,
the friendships that nourish you,
the moments you choose yourself on purpose.

These are the things that make life sweeter because you give them to you — not because anyone else decides you deserve them.

And then there’s the cherry on top.
Love. Appreciation. Compliments.
Beautiful when they arrive, but never the source of the sweetness.
Your muffin is already whole, already complete, already enough.

Because your worth isn’t something to be handed to you.
It’s something you bake, rise into, and embody.

A cherry is lovely.
But you — as you are — are already delicious.

🧁✨

25/11/2025

Being a woman in private practice means trusting your gut.

This week reminded me how important it is to honour the subtle “off” feelings we get, even when nothing dramatic is happening on the surface.

Sometimes a client enquiry comes through that feels unsettling.

Sometimes a message lands wrong in the body.

Sometimes our intuition whispers “this isn’t safe for me.”

And that is enough.

As therapists, we have a right and a responsibility to decline work that doesn’t feel ethically or energetically safe.

We don’t have to justify it.
We don’t have to override ourselves.
We don’t have to explain our boundaries.

Women learn early to scan for risk.
Our bodies are wise.
Our instincts are information.

This week, I honoured mine.
And I’m proud of that.

If you’ve ever doubted your own internal “no,” consider this your reminder:
You’re allowed to trust it.
Your safety matters.
Your intuition matters.
Your boundaries matter










24/11/2025

I have availability in Ayr for clients. My working hours are 12.30-9pm Mondays and Tuesdays.











21/11/2025

As we move into the darker weeks of the year, many people feel the weight of it — emotionally, mentally, and energetically.
And often we tell ourselves, I’ll deal with it in January… I’ll start fresh in the new year…

But the truth is: you don’t need to wait.
Support is allowed now. Rest is allowed now. You are allowed to take up space now.

On Friday 12th December, I’ll be at The Hive in Airdrie offering:
✨ A free 20-minute face-to-face session
✨ A chance to ask anything you’d like to know about counselling
✨ Space to explore how you’re really doing
✨ A free wellness gift
✨ And a voucher for two half-price sessions if taken before 31st January

If you’ve been thinking about counselling, feeling the strain of the season, or simply wanting to understand yourself a little better — this is a gentle, no-pressure way to begin.

You’re so welcome to pop in.
And if no one has told you today: you matter, and support is here for you. 🤍✨










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4 Carrick Street
Ayr
KA71NS

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+447719455114

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Sally Railley Psychotherapy

I providing counselling services to anyone who requires therapy. I am a person centred therapist which means that I am not here to tell you what to do but rather we work to find a way through which puts you in the drivers seat and in control of your life and your future.

I am also providing play therapy for children and can offer services which incorporate person centredness with play therapy to meet children's needs. Call or text me to book a free half an hour phone conversation to discuss your child’s needs.

I also provide relationship counselling to couple experiencing any isssue witin their relationship.

I offer supervision to fellow counsellors and offer disounted rates or students.