Ivan Broad Counselling, EMDR & Breathwork Therapy

Ivan Broad Counselling, EMDR & Breathwork Therapy Psychotherapy, Breathwork, EMDR, Somatic Therapy. Supervision. 18 years experience in trauma work.

Breathwork creates space between your thoughts and can bring insights and fragments of lost memory back into your awaren...
12/11/2025

Breathwork creates space between your thoughts and can bring insights and fragments of lost memory back into your awareness.

I have had this happen many times when breathing consciously with a connected breath. The benefit has been some relief for my nervous system as my mind was able to relax from the tension of not knowing to remembering.

Re-member is a reference to coming back to the body, the body revealed what the mind had lost and the nervous system settled when the mind found what it had been searching for.

To go through a process like this is amazing. To know the mechanics of it is secondary to feeling it all happen.

I am running my breathing circle this weekend if you feel inspired to join the group. 10am to 12:30pm.Since practicing a...
31/10/2025

I am running my breathing circle this weekend if you feel inspired to join the group. 10am to 12:30pm.

Since practicing and training in Breathwork my energy levels have increased, I lifted out of depression and my capacity and vitality for life have grown immensely.

It has worked wonders for me, maybe it will for you 🙏💜

The trauma conference in Oxford I attended confirmed the importance of somatic therapy, breathwork and EMDR as methods t...
25/10/2025

The trauma conference in Oxford I attended confirmed the importance of somatic therapy, breathwork and EMDR as methods to work with trauma. All three mean that you don’t have to talk about what happened to you.

All three methods work with the body to help free up any holding from what happened to you.

08/10/2025

Breathwork cleared my back pain and sciatica that I had struggled with for years. I’m so glad a didn’t believe the doctors who told me I would just have to live with the pain. 😃

The body and mind are not seperate and my understanding from my own journey is that pain and restriction are psychological and emotional restrictions that manifest in the structure of the body.

Being supported is this amazing yurt a couple of weeks ago and today I was supporting others at my breathing circle in a...
05/10/2025

Being supported is this amazing yurt a couple of weeks ago and today I was supporting others at my breathing circle in a village hall with glitter on the floor from a children’s party the night before.

The more I allow myself to receive support the more support I am able to offer. Today was nourishing, in the giving I received and people found themselves with unexpected experiences.

This is what happens when we let go of our head and let the breath and the body take over, altering perceptions and realisations that we are more than we usually experience.

What is narrow can widen, what is short can lengthen, what is locked down can open up.

The breath is always there waiting to show us new ways of feeling alive. 🙏💜

Another great day at the trauma conference today. I dropped in on this talk about community as a healing space.The two s...
29/09/2025

Another great day at the trauma conference today. I dropped in on this talk about community as a healing space.

The two speakers were very inspirational and offered some new ways of thinking about healing and thinking about what wellness looks like for you as an individual.

Community vs individual, “on my own I can move fast, together we can move far” was a memorable quote 🙏💜

A great afternoon spent with Bessel van der Kolk and Licia Sky. Bessel is one of the leading researchers into trauma tre...
28/09/2025

A great afternoon spent with Bessel van der Kolk and Licia Sky. Bessel is one of the leading researchers into trauma treatment.

Good to hear him talk about the importance of breathing, body awareness and EMDR. Working in the here and now and not there and then is something he encouraged.

It really made me think about my practice and what I might want to introduce more of and what I could let go of.

I particularly loved the experiential pieces that Licia offered. I felt more connected with the audience because of these.

Looking forward to a good nights sleep ready for more learning tomorrow 😃

I spent the weekend at Wildways in Shropshire in personal process work. Working with dance, Breathwork and vocal improvi...
22/09/2025

I spent the weekend at Wildways in Shropshire in personal process work. Working with dance, Breathwork and vocal improvisation has been liberating.

I have returned home feeling energised and revitalised. 😃💜

Warm water breathwork sessions remain my favourite sessions to participate in. The amount of birth trauma I was able to ...
16/09/2025

Warm water breathwork sessions remain my favourite sessions to participate in. The amount of birth trauma I was able to process has been life changing.

The water temperature 37/38 degrees and breathing in a conscious connected way can bring memories from the womb and birth into conscious awareness for clearing.

Following the warm water experience it was also amazing to plunge into cold water afterwards and feel refreshed and alive as the experience continued to assimilate through the body.

These sorts of sessions are not for everyone and I know that the ability to maintain dual awareness is key. By dual awareness I mean that I can remain with my body in the here and now whilst also being with the memory and feelings that are being re-membered from birth.

You only know what is possible when you experience it for yourself. 🙏💜

I woke up this morning feeling unusually fearful. I awoke to notice how I had gathered myself up, arms and hand into my ...
09/09/2025

I woke up this morning feeling unusually fearful. I awoke to notice how I had gathered myself up, arms and hand into my upper chest, shoulders reaching for my ears.

I took myself into a 45 minute Breathwork journey. Over the 45 minutes I released the fear and the tension. My fear evaporated and I came into a place of no-mind. No thoughts, feeling energy moving out through the top of my head, my body soft and relaxed once again.

I had quite a powerful shaking through my jaw before I reached peace. It’s just what needed to happen to let go of whatever rose up from my unconscious as I slept.

We really can change how we experience ourselves when we work with our breath and conscious awareness. 🙏💜


All set up for another two Breathwork sessions here at Delamere in Northwhich.Always a pleasure, always a privilege to g...
09/09/2025

All set up for another two Breathwork sessions here at Delamere in Northwhich.

Always a pleasure, always a privilege to guide people through a journey with their breath. 🙏💜

Here are the dates for the rest of the year for my breathing circle in Checkley. The next one is this coming Sunday for ...
03/09/2025

Here are the dates for the rest of the year for my breathing circle in Checkley.

The next one is this coming Sunday for anyone who is inquisitive about discovering what conscious connected breathing can offer.

I don’t push towards a destination in the session but if you follow the guidance and commit to every breath then you will discover something new.

Whatever you become conscious of during the session is yours and it can only be of value.

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About me

Qualified Psychotherapist since 2008, registered and accredited with the National Counselling Society. I am experienced at working one to one, and facilitating psychotherapy groups.

My counselling room is in Cheddleton, near Leek, and my equine therapy sessions take place at Great Eaves Farm, Stoke on Trent, where my therapy herd is situated.