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I am a private counsellor in Rayleigh, Essex with 13 years experience and great success rates helpin

When life gets you down, hopefully you can find something on my page to help you pick yourself back up.

22/11/2023

Me and Becks have made a book to help with tracking moods, organise your thoughts, and she has put loads of quotes from my page in there too. You know me i'm not about toxic positivity get up at 5am and do a 10k run bu****it, this is aimed to be realistic and achievable. Our friends daughter made this video, its lovely of her to have done that! This one Becks designed graphically for younger people but applies to all ages really...and we are doing more. I'm working on an inner child handbook which I think will be really helpful for the emotional side...then Becks will design and make it because she is great with all that whereas im about as creative as a sock 😂😂

Link here if you wanna take a peek https://amzn.eu/d/1c1PDwa

03/09/2023

So its been a while since I posted here, been a really crazy year and haven't had the spare time to dedicate to posting on SM. These pics are my new office, Freeman Therapy 2.0, moved operations from Rayleigh to Hockley along with my fam!

A year ago I lost my Dad, which was really hard as it was a sudden unexpected tragedy, and around then I took a break from social media. Work has been really busy and I've been at max capacity for what seems like years, and I never really got round to posting again.

I've also been writing a course based on everything I've learned from so many clients over almost 15 years now, which I hope will be ready to go online early next year, I've sorted most of it but need to work out how to tie all together properly.

I'm hoping to have more time to post again soon, look after yourselves guys xx

23/12/2022

This is the first thing people see when they step into my counselling office. Lego batmobile, stormtrooper, scout trooper and Darth Vader (and a stack of books I should probably tidy up 🤣🤣).

There was a time where I would never have put them out there, due to thoughts like:

"I'm supposed to be professional, how would this look"

"People will think I'm a nerd"

"I have an important job where I need to be mature and sensible and this might look childish"

And various other negative judgments upon myself, all of which are overblown, making a big deal out of nothing. Otherwise known as 'catastrophising'.

I think it's important to be yourself. I want people to see that I'm a massive nerd and not just a 'therapist'. There are plenty of counsellors who don't have lego in their office if it bothers anyone that much lol!

The point is, nobody cares!

I speak to people ALL THE TIME who hold back things they want to say, things they want to do, all because they worry how it will be perceived or feel ashamed. It stops them being themselves.

So yeah, stop it 🤣

29/08/2022

This guy came to counselling after having numerous HR complaints filed against him for aggressive behaviour. He leads one of the largest retail project management projects in Europe and his company paid for him to attend sessions to help him keep his job (obvs mutually beneficial for them too lol). He was and still is under immense pressure, and at 56 years old told me in the first session he didnt think he could change as he had been like it all his life. Just shows no matter how ingrained a problem is, it's never too late to make a change!!

17/08/2022

It's hard to make changes to the way you are. It takes a lot of time and effort, patience and commitment. It's rarely something you can just decide on and put into effect immediately.

Some people find it useful to write a list of rules they want to live by. The main things you want to improve at, put them on the list, read it as often as you can. Keep these things in the front of your mind. As much as you can. Put it on your phone, on the fridge, next to your bed, anywhere that will make you think to keep reading it.

Too many times people decide they need to sort something out, and over the course of a week or two it gets pushed to the back of their minds. A month later the same issue arises again, because there was no consitent effort to work on it.

How many times have you had a bust up, then cleared the air, promised it will change, then had the same bust up a bit further down the line? How many times have you laid awake at night and at 1am decided s**t needs to change only to wake up and carry on as normal? That's because no consistent effort was made to change it. It's easy enough to mask the problem for a little while, but unless you stick at it, the pretense falls away and the old pattern returns.

Keep at it dudes x

12/07/2022

Hey guys thank you for the feedback on the paid live event question I asked last week, seems there is enough interest to go ahead. I'm expecting workload to be a bit lighter towards the end of this month/beginning of August so I will spend some time preparing a few and list them when I'm satisfied that they cover the subjects well. Cheers guys have a good one 👊

10/07/2022

There are things to optimise and things to savour and enjoy as they are. Get this the wrong way round and you could waste a lot of time searching for perfection and never finding any fulfillment. How many situations, experiences, people, etc have you under-appreciated because you were trying to make them better in some way, then looked back with regret? How many times have you planned the next 'thing' while doing the current 'thing'? Sometimes it's definitely not a good thing to just accept things as they are, I would also say it's just as important not to spend too much time living in the future though.

27/06/2022

Hey guys, wondered if I could trouble you for some feedback on something please ☺️

I noticed through my page FB has set up a way of doing paid live events. I was thinking I could do 30 minute events, each covering a different area of mental health, using real examples from work I have done with clients and also from my own experience with counselling years ago.

I would make sure that each one has practical examples you can actually use in your life rather than just explaining the problem and leaving you wondering what to do about it, I am very passionate about that (as you will know if you watched any of my videos).

Some ideas I've had for sessions include:

Anxiety
Depression
Self worth
OCD
Mindfulness
Stress management
Anger management
Inner child
Confidence
Relationships with others and yourself
Self harm
Over thinking
Dealing with idiots
Perfectionism
Loneliness
Assertiveness
Improving conversation skills
Conflict management
Leadership

These are all things I have worked with countless times over the past 10+ years, and have a lot of great outcomes, techniques and methods of managing these.

Each session would be affordable (£5-10 max), and would aim for 7pm(ish). I would be happy to cover any topics I am familiar with, and if it turns out to be popular enough I would be happy to extend the sessions a bit and do a Q&A to answer specific questions (dunno how I would manage that but will figure it out as we go).

How does that sound?

31/05/2022

In 2022 you cant go far anywhere online without coming across a meme or an 'inspirational post' that tells you the importance of talking and speaking up about your problems. This is a double edged sword and I wanted to post a video about my reasons for thinking that.

Its a case of feelings vs behaviour, and how I think its important to realise that not everything you think or feel needs to become a behaviour or a conversation. It can really improve your relationships if you learn not to let everything leak out, and in this video I give an example of where I fu**ed up by not doing this.

27/04/2022

When I was 18 I went to my first music festival, Reading 1994. I went with my best mate Simon, and a mate from work who was 12 years older than us, who was known only as Strange Pete. We camped for the whole weekend, and ate nothing but chips and mars bars 🤣🤣

Strange Pete was a real mellow dude, he was a smoker and just went along with whatever. I looked up to Strange Pete, he wasn't really strange at all, he was a stoner and I dont think many other people at work 'got' him, hence the nickname.

On the Friday night one of my favourite groups at the time, Cypress Hill, were playing the mainstage. At this point in my life I had no idea who I was...and tended to just try and fit in anyway I could, social chameleon style. The crowd were going ape s**t for the music but I always felt awkward about letting go of myself. All I wanted to do was take it all in and enjoy it. Si was enjoying himself jumping all over the place and so I felt like I should probably do the same, feeling like a total wally because it wasn't really 'me' at all. I just felt so on edge, because I felt like if I just stood there watching, I would look out of place and people would think I'm wierd. I wasn't enjoying the show because I was so preoccupied with the nonsense of how I looked to a load of people I didn't even know!

Every time I noticed Strange Pete, he was just standing still, nodding his head and taking it all in. "Come on Pete, get into it" I said, coming from a place of pretty much total fakeness as I just wanted to be doing the same as him ☺️. "I am into it mate!!!", was his reply.

When I look back on it with the eyes I have now, it seems really minor, but that stuck in my mind ever since. The fact Strange Pete was so OK with what he wanted to do, and gave ZERO f***s what anyone else thought taught me a decent lesson. Might seem small but to an insecure person every little thing you do matters...

I've told this story to plenty of clients over the years because it's surprising how many people have issues like this. It's funny how you think you're the only one who thinks a certain way and you really aren't at all!

Strange Pete, you the man ✌️✊

21/04/2022

Our reality is shaped by our perception of the world around us and our place in it. Someone may tell us our attitude is wrong, but we won't change unless we find a new perspective as this reality is all we know.

We may live a certain way and hold tightly to beliefs for years, only to be shaken by an event that shows us what we thought isnt the only way, and leaves us no choice but to see things differently.

A diagnosis of a serious disease will make us long for the days when we didn't have it, even though when we had a clean bill of health we spent a lot of our time moaning about this or that all day.

The loss of a loved one might make us wish for just 5 more minutes with them so we could tell them something we were too stubborn to say when we had the chance.

These things can shake us into change because they leave us with no choice, but we dont have to leave it that late to make a difference to the way we approach life.

A lot of our troubles can be eased by finding a new perspective, and it's often hard to go back once we have found it. When I first saw this picture I saw 2 people underneath a wierd tree, but now I have seen it, all I can see is the baby.

25/03/2022

Howdy peeps, I know this page may seem deserted of late but it's just that work has been absolutely crazy and I've had to focus on balancing that with other life essentials and not had as much time to spend on my Social Media pages. Still have a ton of ideas to share and stories to tell though, I'm always learning and look forward to sharing more when I get time.....

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