Sam Andreadis Craniosacral Therapy & Counselling

04/12/2025

The debate around the validity of diagnoses of the neurodivergent spectrum rages today. It’s interesting that it is so enlivening for so many people. Perhaps because this area highlights the limitations of medicalisation and has become more about the politics of funding than the support of the individual.

Neurodiversity is neurological human experience that leads to many outcomes which are medically indisputable: from low Self Esteem, to a vulnerability to trauma, to a higher prevalence of OCD thinking, depression, anxiety, and maladaptive coping strategies like addiction or isolation and health outcomes like the increasingly prevalent dysautonomia’s. Whether an individual seeks diagnosis or sees value in that label, is surely a personal concern and an issue of cognitive liberty. How they choose to move forward with that is also a personal choice.

What I would notice is the one thing that seems universally helpful in getting the diagnosis whether 6 or 60 – is the blossoming of self-awareness, understanding and compassion that was generally preceded by a very critical inner voice. In my clinical experience this leads to happier, healthier individuals who are able to re-engage with school, work and the world with a better understanding of how to manage their needs. The rest is politics.

03/12/2025

We might not remember why we feel or react as we do which means ‘talking about it’ is no longer a way in. Many of our nervous system responses are formed in preverbal, prememory developmental stages, but it needn’t be a barrier to unlearning established somatic patterning. Tracking our body responses gives us a breadcrumb trail back to the triggers that activate a somatic response - meeting them with a contained felt sense of safety allows for new nervous system response and re patterning, opening up greater coherence and modulation in our felt experience. No longer lurching from fight or flight to freeze, but finding a route back to safe and social / rest and digest. When we use those particular words it becomes clear how far reaching the effect of this way of working is - spanning both mind and body, psychological and physiological, experience and behaviour.






90min MindBody appointments for emotional and physical regulation

12/11/2025

12/11/2025

Did your story start on the date of your birth? Did it start in the journey of birth? Did it start in utero? Does it start in the egg inside the foetus of your mother inside the womb of your grandmother? Does it start in your intergenerational or cultural inheritance? How did your nervous system and neurology evolve and adapt around these contexts? To expand fully into the totality of you, it’s vital we ask these questions and explore their answers ✨

02/11/2025

This profound statement by Maurice Merleau-Ponty invites us to reflect on our connection to the world around us and consider our bodies as a site of knowing and experience.

In this work we never leave your physical process behind.

07/10/2025

Continuing the theme that you are the expert and everything you need to heal is within you, poetry by Maria Sabina; words she took no credit for because she said the ‘ninos Santos’ spoke through her.

In this room your body speaks. In this room we clear the interference that obscures your path to health and growth.

02/10/2025

22/09/2025

17/09/2025

Whilst I have 20 years of clinical experience and have undertaken trainings in many aspects of psychotherapy, somatic processing, nervous system regulation, health and wellness - I work with many people, who for reasons of neurodivergence or misunderstood chronic health conditions, have felt gaslit or failed by the medical world, educational establishments and the workplace.

In this room we work to the core of that experience. Learning, perhaps for the first time, what you feel and perceive about your health, your Self and your own judgement.

By putting you back in touch with your Self, your body and your innate inner wisdom we increase your empowerment, potency and ignition.

This is how we begin to restore HEALTH. YOU are the expert.

09/06/2025

Dysautonomias can be primary such as POTs or Mast Cell Activation syndrome, or secondary due to Ehlers-Danlos hyper mobility syndrome. There are also many correlations with CFS/ME and some with ASD.

Stress, Trauma and post viral immune activation can also contribute to the development of a Dysautonomia.

Associated mood and behaviour disturbances, such as panic, depression and anxiety can be physiological in origin because the body is sending out signals that relate to a lack of safety internally even if there is none externally.

This is very destabilising and confusing experience. Because the symptoms are so broad and seemingly unconnected it can be very difficult to get a medical diagnosis unless the symptoms are at the more extreme end of the spectrum.

The degrees to which this might affect you can vary enormously but awareness of the ways in which it is effecting you both psychologically and physiologically is really important.

Having it understood that you aren’t making it up or ‘simply’ anxious and depressed can also be really helpful. You are not imagining your racing heart, dizziness, fatigue, pain and digestive issues because you are depressed or anxious. You are experiencing a permanent loss of a sense of safety which is very hard to live with.

Mind Body / Somatic Therapy can be part of an approach to restoring function but also and importantly in reframing your experience of yourself in the world to create a better sense of safety.

24/04/2025