Psychotherapy in Surrey

11/11/2025

In our daily lives, we move constantly between two states — the doing mind and the being mind.
✨ The doing mind plans, solves, and pushes forward.
✨ The being mind softens, notices, and breathes.
We all slide up and down that scale without even realizing it. But something shifts when we start waking up the being mind on purpose — when we practice creating moments of quiet, grounded presence.

The more we build that inner stillness, the easier it becomes to meet whatever emotions arise — not by fixing them, but by allowing them, with gentleness and compassion.

Compassion isn’t a task or another thing to achieve — it’s a way of being with ourselves.

🌿 On Friday mornings, I have a couple of spaces open for new clients would like to explore peacefulness through Walk & Talk sessions or Creative Integrative Psychotherapy.
If you’d like to reconnect with that softer, more spacious part of yourself, I’d love to walk alongside you.

09/11/2025

You don’t have to be exhausted to rest.
Don’t feel guilty for slowing down. Resting before you reach burnout is the smart thing to do. If you see a quiet weekend or a lazy Sunday ahead, take it. You don’t owe anyone productivity all the time.

07/11/2025

03/11/2025

I love this tip, it’s something I’ve always done intuitively as it just feels so comforting.

31/10/2025

Ah, so close to the end of the week! Remember to do all the things that help you feel joy throughout your weeks! ❤️💛

31/10/2025

🕯️Honoring Life, Death, and Connection🕯️
At this time of year—October 31st, November 1st, and 2nd—many cultures around the world pause to remember loved ones who are no longer with us. It is a sacred time for reflection, remembrance, and honoring those whose presence shaped our lives.
There is an African proverb that says:
“When death finds you, make sure it finds you alive.”
These words remind us that death is always near—not as a threat, but as a gentle teacher. They call us to live fully, to stay open to the beauty and the sorrow of existence. So many of us experience a kind of premature death long before our bodies leave this world—when we close our hearts, numb our feelings, or forget how to marvel at the simple miracle of being here.

Each morning we wake, we are one day closer to our death.
❤️So how will we live this day?
❤️How will we connect—with ourselves, with others, with life itself?
❤️How will we bring soul, presence, and tenderness into each moment.

In remembering our loved ones, ancestors, and friends, we also reconnect with the deep river of life that flows through us all. We can light a candle, tell their stories, speak their names, and allow our grief, our love, and our gratitude to mingle together.

Let us hold space for one another—with gentleness, compassion, and respect for both the light and the pain that make us human.
✨ May we live fully alive, even as we honor death. ✨

28/10/2025

There are tiny moments that remind us of the beauty around us — a kind note, a gentle smile, a quiet reminder that where there is light, darkness cannot stay.

Let’s keep creating those moments — spreading kindness, warmth, and light in small, meaningful ways. 🌿💛

19/10/2025

The Window of Tolerance.
Credit : Lindsay Brahman.

We always stand a much better chance of staying on course if they pay close attention to our nervous system.

This is especially true for those with a history of trauma.

Learning about fight, flight, fawn, and freeze can be helpful, but learning how these responses manifest in our bodies is where the magic really starts.

When we understand how fight, flight, freeze, or fawn show up for us, we can develop an internal template to refer back to in moments where we are feeling a lot of (or beginning to shut down and feeling no emotion at all) that alerts us when it’s time take steps to soothe our and return to our window of tolerance.

No one has an innate ability to pause during a conflict and reflect “Gosh, I think I might be moving into a freeze response.”

Instead, this realization tends to be something we recognize as we reflect on an experience later.

Growing the capacity to check in with ourselves and notice, in the moment, when we are slipping into a response is one key to learning how to self-soothe, expand our , grow emotionally, and build .

That’s where my new comes in: it’s a tool specifically for helping us recognize when we are moving out of our window of tolerance (where we can listen, learn, and respond thoughtfully) and into a reaction state.

Like the Emotion Sensation Wheel, the Fight, Flight, & Freeze Embodied Wheel is a tool to prompt conversations and build awareness by showing how each of these responses *tends* to show up through physical sensations.

It's not prescriptive- it's a conversation starter. It's meant to teach, to stir, and to prompt conversations that build awareness, connection, and experience through awareness.

Download a digital copy of this art via Lindsay Brahman's website

18/10/2025

life doesn’t always go the way we plan…

and that’s okay.

The ups, downs, and detours are all part of discovering who we are and where we’re meant to be.

You’re not lost, you’re exploring

Trust the process, take your time, and enjoy the journey.

10/10/2025

Today is World Mental Health day.
Make sure you're supporting your mental health every day, not just on world mental health day!