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Glister Counselling Provider

Hello! I'm Kerry Quigley, an accredited counsellor with 20+ years' experience. Available weekdays, evenings, and weekends.

I work with a wide range of issues and offer both face-to-face and remote sessions. You can book sessions through my website 🌐 At Glister we promote self-actualization, empower self-growth, improve relationships, and reduce emotional stress. We will work with you collaboratively on whatever is most beneficial and important to you. Together, we will decide upon the best way forward and we will aid you with achieving your goals.

05/03/2026

✨ Quick Tip: The Diving Reflex ✨

A client recently shared something surprising.
She finds that holding an ice cube in her hands helps her body settle before sleep.

There’s a physiological reason for this:

❄️ Cold on the hands or face can activate a natural calming response that slows the heart rate and eases stress arousal.
❄️ This can gently help the nervous system move out of ‘high alert’ and towards calm.
❄️ For some people, this gentle reset even supports sleep.

Sometimes the smallest signals create the biggest sense of safety.

For more gentle ways to calm the nervous system, you’ll find me via the link in my bio 🌐

03/03/2026

As a therapist, I ask people to slow down and notice what’s happening inside.

Reformer Pilates asks the same of me.

Breath. Alignment. Awareness.

Subtle adjustments that make a real difference.

It reminds me that change rarely comes from force.
It comes from attention.

Showing up each week keeps me steady, physically and mentally.

155 sessions and counting.

That steadiness is something I carry into the room with my clients.

Working one-to-one with Mandi at has been one of the most consistent and valuable investments I’ve made in my long-term wellbeing. 🌿

26/02/2026

The Space Between Us is now live.

If silence feels uncomfortable…
If you often second-guess yourself after conversations…
If certain relationships leave you subtly unsettled…

Not everything important in a relationship is spoken.
Much of what shapes connection lives in tone, pace and presence.

In this month’s blog, I explore felt sense and relational fields, and what becomes possible when presence is mutual and steady.

Link in bio. 🌿

24/02/2026

Grey Rock is often misunderstood.

It isn’t passive aggression.
It isn’t the silent treatment.
It isn’t punishment.

It’s a nervous system strategy.

When someone repeatedly seeks drama, control, or emotional reaction, engaging can escalate the dynamic. Grey Rock removes the emotional fuel.

But it’s important to remember:
a strategy is not an identity.

If you find yourself using Grey Rock frequently, it may be worth exploring why safety feels fragile in that relationship.

If you’d like to explore this further, you can find more about my work via the link in my bio. 🌐

19/02/2026

There’s something that lives between people.
We feel it before we understand it.

My new blog, The Space Between Us, explores the relational field that forms in silence, tone and presence.

For many, silence has meant rejection or abandonment.
So we learn to fill it.
To reach.
To escalate.

Silence doesn’t feel neutral when it carries history.

But when the relational field is steady, silence becomes a container.
Stillness becomes grounded presence.

Blog live Thursday 26th. 🌿

17/02/2026

We often assume that other people experience the world in the same way we do.

In reality, we all process, decide, recharge, and orient differently.

Those differences shape how we communicate, how we handle conflict, and what feels supportive or overwhelming.

Becoming curious about your own inner wiring can help you make sense of your reactions, your relationships, and what truly supports you.

Understanding yourself more clearly is often the quiet starting point for meaningful change.

When do you feel most like yourself?
And when do you notice you are forcing a way of being that does not quite fit? 🤍

12/02/2026

Love isn’t always the glue.

Sometimes it’s familiarity.
Sometimes it’s fear.
Sometimes it’s choice.

Pausing to notice can matter more than we think.

If this is something you’d like to explore further,
you’ll find me via the link in my bio.

10/02/2026

A thoughtful Christmas gift from my daughter 🤍

Calm and cocooning, letting my nervous system melt for a while.

The kind of experience that makes your whole body exhale.

Thank you, Andrew for such a beautiful Japanese head spa experience.

05/02/2026

Some men were never allowed to be boys.
So they learnt to survive, not to feel.

When emotional needs go unmet in childhood,
the adult doesn’t become resilient.
They become overwhelmed.

What can look like emotional immaturity
is often a nervous system
that never felt safe enough to grow.

When men feel respected,
their defences ease, allowing softness, openness, and connection.

This is the kind of pattern-based work I explore in therapy 🌀

03/02/2026

Attachment styles often lead to predictable patterns of conflict in relationships, shaping how we respond to closeness, distance, reassurance, and emotional need.

These patterns aren’t random or fixed identities. They are learnt ways of staying emotionally safe in relationships.

Understanding your own attachment style can help you make sense of repeated dynamics, communicate more clearly, and move towards relationships that feel steadier and more secure.

If you’re curious about your own patterns, you can find more information via the link in my bio. 🔗

29/01/2026

Why do some relationships feel like home even when they don’t feel safe or steady?

My latest blog explores why chemistry can feel so powerful and so confusing.
Sometimes understanding that pull is where choice begins. 🤍

🔗 Link in bio

27/01/2026

Self-love is having a sense of self.
It’s the relationship you build with yourself.

It does not arrive all at once.
It grows through attention.
Through getting to know yourself over time.

It’s listening to yourself.
And staying with the silence when it feels too loud,
when it would be easier to steady yourself through someone else.

It’s choosing yourself,
again and again,
even when it feels uncomfortable
and lonely.

It’s allowing yourself to pause.

It’s learning what feels like yes,
in your body,
and trusting the quiet no.

It’s the relationship that deepens
the more honest you become.

This is the love story 🤍

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The Racquets Court, 3 College Street
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE18JG

Website

http://glister.uk.com/

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