Atlanta Rayner

23/01/2024

🗓 Starting on Thursday 15 February, 7-8pm in at the beautiful venue of Kingshill House, and running for 6-weeks, my new "Healing the Lost Child" course will be an opportunity to promote deep healing that can make space for release and growth around the difficult topics of:

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We will be exploring and promoting healing through therapeutic creative writing processes, though no previous writing experience is needed at all.

This is a supportive and safely held space to explore, release and reset for the year ahead.

£85 for 6 sessions | Limited places available | Book now by emailing: atlanta@atlantarayner.co.uk

More information available through the Kingshill House website here: https://www.kingshillhouse.org.uk/creative-writing-for-birth-trauma.html

Please just reach out any time if you have questions or need further support. 🙏🏻

22/01/2024

21/01/2024

🥀 Maternity Stories Heal is a free resource that I started as a way to help me recover from miscarrying our third child at 20 weeks gestation.

I found the act of writing therapeutic and grounding. Putting pen to paper allowed my feelings to tumble out without judgement, shame or worry. It stopped thoughts circling round my head.

I was overwhelmed with grief and loss, and was training as a bereavement councillor and working with couples when this happened. My work had to be put on hold whilst I regained myself.

Before this I had experienced only minor traumas in my life. I felt I was in the world to heal others. It came as a great shock to me that I needed help myself at this time.

What I found was the more I told my story the more people told me their stories. It was like giving permission to one another. I wanted others to benefit from this healing journey.

I also believe that each story needs a place in the world and feel that my story has found this place. Maternity Stories Heal is a free resource for all who need it.

🥀 You can read stories and share your own at maternitystoriesheal.com

🥀 If you're looking for further support, I offer birth counselling online and in-person local to and , and I also offer a therapeutic writing course around this topic in .

17/01/2024

A brand new, 6-week course to help you understand your patterns around relationships, begins this February at The Subscription Rooms in .

Discover your true needs and unlock the change to move forward with a renewed sense of possibility. Come as a couple or individually, open and prepared to venture into new territory.

No previous writing experience is needed - this is an experimental, playful, fun and safely held space.

Objects, poems, felt sense and group work are some of the tools for this journey to deep dive into your subconscious, allowing you to restore and reimagine your relationships.

Get ready to bring new energy to your relationships for the year ahead.

Saturday 17 February - Saturday 23 March 2024: 9.30-11.30 am - £150 for 6 weeks at the Subrooms in Stroud, Gloucestershire.

Booking available now through the Subrooms here: https://thesubrooms.co.uk/whats-on/restoring-reimagining-your-relationships-1251

16/01/2024

Creative therapeutic writing can promote deep healing around difficult topics, making space for release and growth, enabling us to move forward with a renewed sense of possibility.
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For all those local to in , this 6-week course running Kingshill House will be an expansive and safely held space dedicated to healing grief and trauma related to the deeply sensitive experiences of , , , or loss.

No previous writing experience is needed at all. This is a healing, expansive, supportive and safely held space to explore, release and reset for the year ahead.

Come as a couple or individually, open and prepared to venture into new territory. Discover the tools to help you make sense of your experiences, and unlock the change to move forward.
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✨ Booking Info:
✨ Thursday evenings, 7-8pm, 6-week course: 15 February - 21 March 2024

Cost: £85 for the full 6-week course. Limited places available.

To book your place on the full 6-week course contact: atlanta@atlantarayner.co.uk or send me a message here on Facebook.

Learn more: https://www.kingshillhouse.org.uk/creative-writing-for-birth-trauma.html

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16/01/2024

✨ Hello Facebook! ✨ A new year, and a new online home for my therapy work.

I’m Atlanta Rayner, and although this is a fresh page for 2024, I’ve actually been working as a s*x, relationship and birth therapist since 2008, supporting couples and individuals across all ages, cultures and mental health issues with a wide range of therapeutic support.

This year, as well as the in-person and online therapy I deliver, I’m also launching a new series of creative writing for therapeutic practice classes in Gloucestershire. So it seemed a perfect moment to launch this online space where I can provide more support for those looking to expand their own personal therapeutic practice.

Over many years working one-to-one, with couples and with groups, I’ve gained extensive experience and a deep understanding of the patterns of the mind, the stories we tell and how people can be given their own tools to change.

I’ve worked for renowned organisations like Relate, Cruise Bereavement and the NHS, and my training includes:
🤝 Advanced Diploma in Couples Counselling
🤝 Diploma in Psychos*xual and Relationship Therapy
🤝 MSC in Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes.

I’m a and member of the British Association for and and have been a trustee for Footsteps Counselling and Care, as well as developing a free resource for , , and related issues, available at www.maternitystoriesheal.com.

You can learn more about my work at www.atlantarayner.co.uk and please just reach out any time if you have questions.

Looking forward to connecting and meeting you.

Atlanta x