Inner Worth Counselling

Inner Worth Counselling Hi, I’m Donna, a Integrative therapist and registered member of the BACP.

Verified by Counselling Directory and Psychology Today,
My goal is to provide a safe, welcoming space for healing and growth.

21/11/2025

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🌳 THE TREE OF LIFE A POWERFUL THERAPY TOOL AT INNERWORTH COUNSELLING 🌟Struggling with identity, confidence, trauma, or f...
20/11/2025

🌳 THE TREE OF LIFE A POWERFUL THERAPY TOOL AT INNERWORTH COUNSELLING 🌟

Struggling with identity, confidence, trauma, or feeling disconnected from who you are?

The Tree of Life therapeutic approach is one of the beautiful tools I use in sessions to help clients reconnect with their strengths, their story, and the parts of themselves they’ve forgotten.

This guided exercise supports you to explore:

🍃 Your relationships and the people who have shaped you
🍎 Your achievements and the gifts you’ve gained along the way
🌿 Your dreams and goals for the future
🌳 Your skills and strengths even the ones you don’t recognise yet
🌱 Your family roots, values, and cultural foundations
🌍 Your present life, challenges, and opportunities

The Tree of Life helps you step back and see your life from a place of strength, not struggle.

Whether you’re healing trauma, rebuilding confidence, or trying to understand yourself better, this tool brings clarity, grounding, and emotional growth.

✨
Innerworth Counselling 🌿
A place to grow, heal, and transform.

🌿 The Drama Triangle — Why We Fall Into Roles Without RealisingEver notice how certain relationships or situations pull ...
19/11/2025

🌿 The Drama Triangle — Why We Fall Into Roles Without Realising

Ever notice how certain relationships or situations pull you into the same emotional patterns over and over again?
Maybe you find yourself fixing, withdrawing, or defending without even thinking about it.

That’s where the Drama Triangle comes in — a simple but powerful way of understanding the roles we slip into under stress:
✨ Victim
✨ Persecutor
✨ Rescuer

These roles aren’t who we are — they’re just survival strategies we learned growing up, shaped by our environment, culture, and past experiences.

Often we fall into these patterns because:
• It feels familiar
• We’re overwhelmed or stressed
• We’re trying to gain connection or avoid conflict
• We don’t know who we are outside of old roles
• We’ve learned to meet our needs through drama rather than healthy communication

But the truth is:
You’re allowed to step out of old roles.
You’re allowed to choose a different way of relating.
And you’re allowed to grow beyond what you learned.

Awareness is the first step.
Once we recognise the patterns, we can begin building healthier boundaries, clearer communication, and a more grounded sense of self.

If this resonates and you want to explore the roles you find yourself falling into, therapy can help you understand your patterns with compassion not judgement.

🌿 Innerworth Counselling helping you step out of the roles and back into yourself.

So… what is the nervous system? 🤍Your nervous system is your body’s built-in safety scanner.It’s constantly asking one q...
17/11/2025

So… what is the nervous system? 🤍

Your nervous system is your body’s built-in safety scanner.
It’s constantly asking one question:

“Am I safe or not?”

Depending on the answer, your body shifts into different states:

🔥 Fight/Flight when things feel unsafe
🌫 Freeze/Shutdown when things feel too much
💚 Calm/Connected when you feel safe enough

None of these responses are dramatic, over the top, or “too much.”
They’re normal human reactions shaped by your past experiences, your wiring, and the things you’ve lived through.

When your body reacts quickly, intensely, or shuts down altogether, it isn’t failing you — it’s trying to protect you in the only way it knows how.

Understanding your nervous system is the first step toward regulating it.
Healing isn’t about forcing yourself to “be calm.”
It’s about learning your patterns, meeting them with compassion, and slowly building safety from the inside out. 🤍

🌟 Welcome to Innerworth Counselling 🌟Where your wellbeing, healing, and emotional growth take centre stage.Step into a c...
14/11/2025

🌟 Welcome to Innerworth Counselling 🌟
Where your wellbeing, healing, and emotional growth take centre stage.

Step into a calm, trauma-informed space designed to support you through life’s challenges with compassion, clarity, and understanding.

✅ Fully qualified & insured
✅ Registered with BACP
✅ Verified by Psychology Today & Counselling Directory
✅ Integrative, trauma-informed, creative approaches available

I’m honoured to be trusted by so many individuals, couples, parents and young people. Due to ongoing demand, my diary is now full — but the 2026 waiting list is officially open.

If you’re considering starting therapy, planning ahead ensures you secure the right support at the right time.
Your journey to inner worth, healing, balance and emotional clarity starts here. 🌿

📩 Message to be added to the 2026 waiting list
🌐 https://www.innerworthcounselling.com/

🧠💛 The Unhealthy Guilt Cycle… and why so many of us get stuck in it.Guilt isn’t always a sign that you’ve done something...
13/11/2025

🧠💛 The Unhealthy Guilt Cycle

… and why so many of us get stuck in it.

Guilt isn’t always a sign that you’ve done something “wrong.”
Sometimes it’s a sign that you’ve been living under rules that were never yours to begin with.

This cycle shows how guilt can become a loop:

1️⃣ Make a rule for yourself — often unrealistic, perfectionistic or based on what you think you “should” do.
2️⃣ Feel deprived because the rule is too rigid.
3️⃣ Break the rule by doing what feels human and normal.
4️⃣ Feel guilty for not meeting the impossible standard.
5️⃣ Try to relieve the guilt by making even stricter rules…
… and the cycle continues.

💬 If this feels familiar, you’re not alone.
This pattern is incredibly common in people-pleasers, those who grew up in chaotic or high-expectation environments, and anyone who learned that their worth is tied to behaviour.

✨ What helps?
• Challenge the “rules” — ask, Is this my rule, or someone else’s voice?
• Soften the expectations — aim for good enough, not perfect.
• Build flexibility — a rule that doesn’t allow you to be human isn’t healthy.
• Remember: guilt is a feeling, not a fact.

You’re allowed to rest.
You’re allowed to choose what’s right for you.
You’re allowed to be human without punishing yourself for it. 💛

✨ HEALING EXPLAINED ✨So often we think healing means forgetting what happened…as if the goal is to erase the hurt, the m...
13/11/2025

✨ HEALING EXPLAINED ✨

So often we think healing means forgetting what happened…
as if the goal is to erase the hurt, the memories, the impact.

But real healing doesn’t ask you to pretend it never happened.
It asks you to reframe it.

To look at your experiences through a new lens —
one that highlights your strength, your growth, your resilience.
One that shows how the things that broke you also shaped you.
One that adds depth, meaning and understanding to your story.

Healing is not about deleting your past.
It’s about reclaiming your power from it.

When you begin to see your experiences differently,
they stop controlling you…
and start teaching you.

🌿 Innerworth Counselling a safe space to heal, grow and understand yourself more deeply.

🌿 The 3 C’s of Coping with Emotions 🌿When emotions feel overwhelming, grounding ourselves in Curiosity, Compassion, and ...
10/11/2025

🌿 The 3 C’s of Coping with Emotions 🌿
When emotions feel overwhelming, grounding ourselves in Curiosity, Compassion, and Connection can help us move through them with greater understanding and resilience.

💛 Curiosity: Pause and notice what’s really going on inside. What emotion am I feeling, and what triggered it?
❤️ Compassion: Offer yourself kindness instead of criticism. How can I care for myself in this moment?
💙 Connection: Reach out. Who can I talk to or lean on? What helps me feel supported and seen?

Emotional resilience isn’t about avoiding difficult feelings it’s about learning to sit with them, understand them, and respond with care. 🌱

💭 “Apologizing to your therapist for crying is like apologizing to your trainer for sweating.”Tears are not a sign of we...
06/11/2025

💭 “Apologizing to your therapist for crying is like apologizing to your trainer for sweating.”

Tears are not a sign of weakness — they’re a sign that your body is releasing what it’s been holding onto.
In therapy, emotions surface because you’re doing the deep work. It’s not about being composed; it’s about being real.

So if you ever find yourself saying “sorry” for crying… take a breath and remind yourself —
✨ Feeling is healing.

🌿 Thank you so much, Tania 🌿It means the world to receive such kind words. Seeing couples reconnect, communicate openly,...
06/11/2025

🌿 Thank you so much, Tania 🌿
It means the world to receive such kind words. Seeing couples reconnect, communicate openly, and rediscover their respect for one another is exactly why I do what I do. 💚

Every journey is unique, and it’s a privilege to walk alongside you both.

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