Kim Sturgeon Counselling

07/11/2025

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Therapists, what are you thinking about between sessions?

07/11/2025

06/11/2025

31/10/2025

What I wish my clients knew... (as a therapist) ⤵💚

➡ It was never their shame to hold 🫥
➡ Anger was their tool to say no ❎
➡ All their reactions are normal to their environment 😤
➡ You can’t think your way out of nervous states 🤔
➡ Boundaries are not a luxury ✨
➡ Their inner child deserves the same compassion they give their kids 👶

29/10/2025

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26/10/2025

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23/10/2025

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22/10/2025

🙌🏽HISTORIC CAMPAIGN WIN🙌🏽

👩🏻‍⚖️ After a decade-long campaign, today the government has decided to repeal the legal presumption of parental contact.

This is a HUGE move for child victims of domestic abuse, who for too many years have been failed and silenced by the systems supposed to protect them.

🤔What does that mean?
There will no longer be a legal presumption in the family courts that it's safe and better for a child to have access to both their parents.

🤔Why is it important?
Presumption costs lives. 19 more children have been killed by an abusive parent in the last decade, as a result of unsafe child contact arrangements.

🤔What next?
The repeal will need to be made through legislation in the coming months. It is one step towards protecting more children, but we're calling for a whole-system approach to prioritise children’s voices in the courts, and beyond.

🩷A huge thank you to our survivor Ambassador Claire Throssell and countless other survivors, who's courage and determination have helped lead this campaign.

22/10/2025

Depersonalisation and Derealisation (UK spellings) are experiences commonly had by people who have experienced trauma. Whilst often distressing, this is our body's way of attempting to cope with something that has overwhelmed our nervous system.

We now know lots more about the connection between the mind and body in trauma. Helping our body to feel safe now that the immediate threat has passed is likely to reduce these experiences.

What can make this complicated is the numerous messages around us following traumatic events that reinforce the idea that we're not safe - ie - others' dismissing, minimising, blaming us for the trauma. OR messages we picked up/ beliefs we held/ ideas about who we 'should' be can lead to internalised blame, minimisation, and shame.

Finding someone able to hear and validate the multitude of thoughts and feelings about what happened (and what happened around what happened) is likely to be the starting point for the healing journey.

21/10/2025

Adult children estranging their parents isn’t a trend. Or ageism. Or an unraveling of the very fabric of society. It’s kids these days standing up for ourselves by refusing to continue to tolerate mistreatment by the people who have been our parents in name only.

We deserve better now, and we deserved better then.