Sarah Cayton Psychotherapist, BWRT, Hypnotherapist, Hypno-Band Practitioner

05/12/2025

Wishing all my clients and colleagues a very Merry Christmas! 🎄 ❤️

30/10/2025

What feels unbearable today becomes a memory you’ve already survived tomorrow.....

Great share Ailsa at East Cheshire Hypnotherapy & Psychotherapy xx

13/10/2025

Practice observing without absorbing.
Guard your peace and protect your energy......

05/10/2025

Parents won't always get it right. You may not have had the tools, but you do have the chance now.
Apologising isn’t weakness - it’s repair.
Adult children need to be heard; their feelings matter, and really listening can heal wounds that linger for years..

Great post Annaleise Gamble Motion & Mind xx

As parents, we may not have had the tools or know-how to always meet our children’s needs at the time. Apologising to them as adults, for what we didn’t know isn’t about blame: it’s about opening the door to repair. While we're here in this life, there’s always time to acknowledge, reconnect, and make amends. To do better, to be closer.

20/09/2025

Healing can be messy, and may break you down, but only to build you back stronger…

1922 likes, 50 comments. “I’m a psychologist, and it took me 10 years to learn this…let me teach you in 60 seconds: Healing doesn’t feel like healing. It feels like chaos, grief, and falling apart. But that’s the paradox. 🌸 Healing feels like breaking open… before it feels like becomi...

21/08/2025

BWRT testimonial - overcoming panic attacks, severe health anxiety and IBS:

Sean described BWRT as being like flipping a switch on his panic attacks.

He said that after a few years of CBT, choosing to see me for BWRT was the best decision he’s ever made.

Sean's feedback:
I initially came to see Sarah after hearing about a new style of therapy (BWRT). I was very interested in trying this, as after having undertaken a couple of years of traditional CBT, it was only having a limited impact on my health anxiety.

I had suffered from health anxiety for many years with a particular focus on cancer, but around the time of the pandemic it flared up hugely - it ultimately led to having a panic attack in the office car park, which was perhaps the scariest experience of my life - and it formed a very unhelpful association between work and anxiety (fear of it happening again).

It was after this that I sought Sarah’s help - and what followed was a combination of BWRT and talking therapy. The initial BWRT was like flipping a switch on that panic attack - after one session, I have never had the fear and anxiety around it again - I can remember the event, but the sting has been completely removed from it. For this alone, I will be forever grateful to Sarah.

Since then, Sarah has provided me with a number of techniques to deal with the more chronic and low grade aspects of my health anxiety, including helping me to understand why it’s something I have to deal with in the first place. Whilst it will no doubt be something that I will always manage, I am now able to challenge my thoughts and deal with things far more proportionately - even to the point where I recently found a lump that I dealt with completely sensibly and without it taking up all the hours in my day - something that 5 years ago would have lead to months of near constant fear and panic.

Additionally, using BWRT Sarah has helped me to make huge improvements in my IBS symptoms that have plagued me since childhood, and most recently with a wasp phobia (I’m looking forward to testing myself later this summer!).

All in all, it would be an understatement to say that Sarah has helped and empowered me to change my life. She is incredibly kind and understanding, and has an incredible talent for giving you the best chance and tools to help yourself. Do go and see Sarah, even if other therapies haven’t been as successful as you’d hoped - it was the best decision I could have made.

I don’t even think that captures how grateful I am, but I hope it’s helpful as a review!

14/08/2025

When your amygdala triggers a fight flight freeze response, your brain puts logic on hold so instinct can take over. It's not weakness, but survival wiring.

Great share Annaleise Gamble Motion & Mind xx

BWRT can help rewire maladaptive neural pathways.

🚨 Ever gone blank in a tense moment?
That’s your brain hitting the pause button on thinking so survival can take over.
Logic steps aside. Instinct takes the wheel.
It’s not weakness — it’s wiring.
Stay safe first. Make sense of it later.

14/07/2025

Trauma is the internal impact, not just the event. Trauma responses aren't choices -they're survival.

Great post Annaleise Gamble Motion & Mind xx

Trauma isn't what happened to you. It's what happened inside of you as a result. Trauma response is not a choice. Remember this when supporting a traumatised person on their journey. They have not shut down, cowered, rolled over, run away or fought back out of choice. They're surviving.

17/06/2025

Feedback from one of my lovely clients.

Gabriela initially came to see me as she was feeling hopeless and experiencing panic attacks and intense anxiety.

Here's what Gabriela said after our sessions.

I just want to say a heartfelt thank you for all the support and guidance you’ve given me throughout our sessions. When I first came to you, I was struggling with intense anxiety, panic attacks, and a constant feeling of unease. It felt overwhelming, and at times, hopeless.

Now, after our time together, I feel so much more in control of my thoughts and emotions. I’m genuinely looking forward to the future—something I couldn’t have imagined before. You helped me see that there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

The tools and advice you gave me have been incredibly valuable, and I know they’ll continue to help me moving forward. I truly appreciate the safe and supportive space you created for me to open up and grow. Thank you so much for everything.

04/06/2025

Feedback from my wonderful client who consulted me at a really low point in her life.

Emma has made a remarkable transformation through therapy -from feeling anxious, low in self-esteem, fed up with life and stuck in an unhealthy relationship with food, to feeling so much happier and more positive. These changes have truly transformed her life.

At a real low point in my life, I felt overwhelmed. I was overweight and had tried every kind of diet in the past with little long-term success. I was anxious, I had lost my confidence and I felt that I could do nothing right, doubting myself in every scenario. I wasn’t enjoying life at all and felt thoroughly miserable and fed up.

I first visited Sarah to get help with my weight, believing that was the root of all my problems, but it was clear there were other factors contributing to my unhappiness and Sarah recommended therapy sessions. From the start, I found it very easy to talk to Sarah. Each session felt like a safe space where I could say whatever I wanted to. As well as the in-person therapy sessions, Sarah gave me ‘homework’ and encouraged me to keep a journal. She gave me strategies to use to help me manage negative thoughts and emotions. Together, we also worked on improving my food choices.

Six months on, I am steadily losing weight, feeling much healthier and more positive. Most importantly, I’ve found my inner strength again. I know there is still a journey ahead, but thanks to Sarah’s support, I feel like I am on the right track and strong enough to continue on my own, with the comfort of knowing she is there if I ever need her.

I give Sarah permission to use my feedback and I truly hope that it will encourage anyone else who is struggling, to seek help. Sarah, thank you from the bottom of my heart - you have genuinely changed my life.

26/05/2025

Wonderful feedback from my client:
Tracy came to me feeling depressed, stressed, anxious, and struggling with gaining some weight.

It has been a very calming and eye opening few months which has already had a hugely positive impact upon my and my families lives.

Looking back now I find it hard to believe I wasted so many years without taking action sooner but as we know, eventually I came to see you. In fact today I recommended someone I know to come to you for almost identical 'issues'. It seems such a waste for them to be feeling so bad when they can change that. I hope they called you already!

For years before coming to see you (I guess since 2011) I had slipped into a very anxious and stressed state which some would call depression. This manifested as avoiding social situations, seeing my relationship fall completely away with my disabled parent, putting on a significant amount of weight (several stones) and generally anticipating failure on an ongoing basis. I had no ability to remember, focus or complete any tasks. Headaches were a daily occurrence and the feeling of having a tight band permanently around my head preventing me from thinking was common place. I had stopped reading, listening to music, caring about how I looked, going out socially, stopped paid work and was simply operating in 'survival' mode and had been for quite some time. I guess I had stopped liking myself and this impacted on all around me.

The impact that the last few months have had on my life is incredible. I am happy, almost all of the time and empowered to be in control of my feelings and reactions to life in general. I question my own thoughts BEFORE reacting and correct them if necessary (not often now) and the most important I celebrate the successes (however small) of daily life. Every night I set myself a 'plan' for the next day and enjoy it. I am getting things done with efficiency, loving nature and the 'details' I had missed for so long. Music has again become a lovely part of my day and I am listening to it and singing along often! Books are now a feature on the sofa, in the car and bedside cabinet and they had been missing for so long. Too long. I am initiating social events and making new friends, yes me!!

Relationships improve as my 'mood' is lifting those around me and I have started to re-build with my parent although on a very different footing as my life is important and I intend to live it to the full. My child is relaxing more and I am using my empowerment to help further build confidence in other adults around me. The bonus, I have lost over 6 kg's already just through making good choices and questing what I eat and feel so much better for it. I smile, a lot then smile again because I did it in the first place! Lovely.

I would say don't just survive, take control, live every moment and enjoy. You are the only person who can do it, rise to the challenge and get back on track.

Sarah, thank you. I had never contemplated any kind of therapy before but it was the best decision I have made for a very long time

22/05/2025

Your silence isn't surrender - it's a boundary. They no longer have the privilege of your presence, your energy, or your response...

Self-preservation 🙅‍♂️
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