Mindest

Mindest Trauma-informed Counselling Service and Social Enterprise. EMDR Practitioner. 18+. Face to face therapy in Paignton at The Devon Clinic.

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You can understand your trauma and still feel stuck in it.Insight is powerful.But healing requires more than explanation...
06/03/2026

You can understand your trauma and still feel stuck in it.

Insight is powerful.
But healing requires more than explanation.

Understanding what happened is intellectual work.
Healing is emotional and nervous system work.

Healing begins when the mind, body, and nervous system catch up with the story you already understand.

The first step?
Stop trying to analyse it more. Start paying attention to what you actually feel when it shows up.

That’s where the real work begins.

If you want support with that process, therapy can help.





People apologise a lot in therapy.For feeling, crying, swearing, hating and voicing it… But this is exactly what the spa...
06/03/2026

People apologise a lot in therapy.
For feeling, crying, swearing, hating and voicing it…
But this is exactly what the space is for.

The patterns, survival strategies, stories we inherit and the ones we accidentally keep repeating.I don’t do surface-lev...
01/03/2026

The patterns, survival strategies, stories we inherit and the ones we accidentally keep repeating.

I don’t do surface-level anything.

If something is driving your life, I want to understand where it came from, how it’s protecting you.
If something keeps happening, there’s a reason, and I’m interested in that reason.

I believe in science, nervous systems, a bunch of psychological theories, but I also respect that humans are symbolic creatures who make meaning in strange, powerful ways.

I care about autonomy, about people thinking for themselves, about not reducing someone to a diagnosis or a label, you are not a label!

Most issues make sense when you zoom out far enough, and once you see the logic, you can choose differently.

Anxiety, overthinking, avoidance or perfectionism - they’re not random at all, they’re strategies, and strategies can be understood.

And yes, we can keep it real while we do it!

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Today’s vibe.Deeply appreciated in the counselling room… 😁
26/01/2026

Today’s vibe.
Deeply appreciated in the counselling room… 😁



“Be a man about it.”That’s when you stopped talking.Men were taught to hold it in.So they do.Silence gets mistaken for r...
20/01/2026

“Be a man about it.”
That’s when you stopped talking.

Men were taught to hold it in.
So they do.
Silence gets mistaken for resilience.

But emotional repression isn’t resilience.
It’s pain with nowhere to go, so it stays in and corrodes.

In reality, it takes bo****ks to speak up.
Real strength is being able to say how you actually feel.

The toxic idea of masculinity can be deadly.
And it deserves to be challenged.

Support exists, including therapy.

This is what shows up when people stop pretending they’re fine and decide not to perform. Healing isn’t always gentle. S...
10/01/2026

This is what shows up when people stop pretending they’re fine and decide not to perform.

Healing isn’t always gentle. Sometimes it’s heavy, slow, exhausting, but people choosing to show up anyway.

Some weeks aren’t about breakthroughs or “progress”, it’s about sitting with grief, with fear.

No toxic positivity dressed up as hope, you don’t have to be “nice” or watch your words.

It’s a space with no judgement.

If this resonates, therapy might be the place to bring it.
Get in touch!







Let’s be honest, sometimes we love to play judge. When someone spirals publicly, we point and say “What the hell happene...
26/12/2025

Let’s be honest, sometimes we love to play judge. When someone spirals publicly, we point and say “What the hell happened to them?” Like we’re all born with equal wiring and self-control, just different PR teams.

Think about people like Katie Price and her love for plastic surgery, Britney Spears with her messy social media uploads and public meltdowns, Amy Winehouse or Kanye West - humans turned into headlines. Or your mate Dave who lost his job, hit the drink and stopped paying child support? Each one has been labelled unstable, reckless, self-destructive, toxic, manipulative, crazy or narcissistic. The verdict is simple: they chose to act that way! But psychology would whisper something far less convenient - maybe they didn’t. Maybe the version of them you’re seeing is the sum of a million invisible variables they never picked.

Kanye is a perfect case study, not to defend him, but to understand him. A man capable of building musical masterpieces and burning bridges with equal passion. What looks like ego might actually be a brain wired for intensity - reward circuits on overdrive, emotional regulation systems misfiring, and a lifetime of unresolved chaos driving the engine.

What if it’s not moral failure, but neurological momentum?

This is where the illusion of free will starts to crack… New blog is up!

https://www.mindest.co.uk/blog/the-illusion-of-freedom


Not every room demands a performance.Mine definitely doesn’t.If you’re used to managing everyone else’s feelings, this i...
22/11/2025

Not every room demands a performance.
Mine definitely doesn’t.

If you’re used to managing everyone else’s feelings, this is where you finally put that load down.

No masks, no politeness rituals, no emotional labour.

Just truth, edges and breath.

Welcome to therapy done properly.

Christmas hits different when you are grieving, and it all starts in November!Everyone else is slowly switching on fairy...
20/11/2025

Christmas hits different when you are grieving, and it all starts in November!

Everyone else is slowly switching on fairy lights while your nervous system is just trying to survive the sensory assault - the lights, the songs, the stupid adverts…
Grief during Christmas is a psychological minefield in a social performance season.

Soon you start feeling two emotions at once: the pain of missing someone, and the guilt of not wanting to dim other people’s joy.

But you know what? You don’t have to perform joy, and you don’t owe anyone a half-smile when you’re fighting to stay upright.

You’re living through a period that keeps reminding you of someone who isn’t here, holding love in the hardest form it takes.
So if this is your first Christmas without someone, it’s okay that you don’t know how to do it. And if you’ve been grieving for years, it’s also okay that it still hurts.

There are ways to cope that don’t demand pretending everything is fine.

And if you need more than a caption right now - the full blog is waiting here:

https://www.mindest.co.uk/blog/christmas-hits-differently-when-youre-grieving/

This beauty just arrived — can’t wait to bring some high-tech precision into trauma healing!
12/11/2025

This beauty just arrived — can’t wait to bring some high-tech precision into trauma healing!

Proud to announce my membership with the British Society of Clinical Hypnotherapy and Integrative Psychotherapy.Levellin...
20/10/2025

Proud to announce my membership with the British Society of Clinical Hypnotherapy and Integrative Psychotherapy.

Levelling up, grounded in science, empathy, and fuelled by pure rebellion. ⚡️

If you’re not following me on Instagram yet, maybe you should? More casual posts on resilience, neuroscience, positive p...
27/09/2025

If you’re not following me on Instagram yet, maybe you should? More casual posts on resilience, neuroscience, positive psychology… all the stuff that actually makes everyday life easier.

Instagram.com/mindest_hq

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