Seaview Therapies

16/11/2020

Appointments available with me on Monday mornings at The Old Rectory Clinic. We are adhering to strict hygiene measures to ensure we provide the safest environment for everyone. Contact me to book.

The Talking Therapists at The Old Rectory Clinic are here to support your mental health needs.
It is sad reflection on the current situation that the talking therapists are busier than ever. We have Counsellors, Psychologists, Hypnotherapists and Cognitive Behaviour Therapists (CBT) who are available to help and support adults, children, young people and couples in a safe, secure and private location. If you would like to know more about how we can support you, please call 01454 228925 or email info@theoldrectoryclinic.co.uk

14/09/2020

Time for a quick cup of tea

07/09/2020

Really happy to be back at The Old Rectory Clinic today! Looking forward to seeing all my wonderful clients 😊

12/08/2020

Here’s the link to me chatting about my research with the very lovely hosts Ayse and Joe at Family Based Solutions in London. Thank you both for hosting such a lovely event!

A very informative chat with Dr. Rachel Gillibrand looking at using EEG to reveal how the brain responds to Solution Focused Principles in Trance.

06/08/2020

20 minutes to go and this fabulous conference begins!

It’s Today!
The Worldwide Solution Focused Conference now has over 2,000 delegates registered.
Dr Rachel Gillibrand’s talk starts at 3:30
‘What happens in the brain during trance?’
Dorothea and Rachel are on again at 6pm ‘Using Solution Focused Approaches with the very ill’.

02/08/2020

Shameless plug alert!

Dorothea and I are presenting at the UKASFP Conference on Thursday.

If you’d like to join us at the conference, registration is free https://ukasfp.org/page/Conference2020

I am talking at 3:30pm on Thursday about what EEG tells us is happening in the brain during solution focused suggestions and then Dorothea and I are talking at 6pm on Thursday about using SF in hospitals.

We’d love to see you 😊

We think everybody is now aware that there is a major global Solution Focused Practice conference taking place on August 6th and 7th 2020 which is 24 hours long and going round the world through four time zones.

22/07/2020

Just been nattering on the radio about adrenaline, heights and fight or flight! Here's the link!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19stwnmamxYhluGpPpP1xItDxeToNktGs/view?usp=sharing

27/04/2020

Coping with change by Lewis Carroll

In a letter to Isabel Standen, a young friend of his, the author Lewis Carroll has some wise advice to impart on how to deal with change:

I can quite understand, and much sympathise with, what you say of your feeling lonely, and now what you can honestly call ‘happy’. Now I am going to give you a bit of philosophy about that – my own experience is that every new form of life we try is, just at first, irksome rather than pleasant. My first day or two at the sea is a little depressing; I miss the Christ Church interests, and haven’t taken up the threads of interest here; and, just in the same way, my first day or two, when I get back to Christ Church, I miss the seaside pleasures, and feel with unusual clearness the bothers or business-routine. In all such cases, the true philosophy I believe is ‘wait a bit’. Our mental nerves seem to be so adjusted that we feel first and most keenly, the dis-comforts of any new form of life; but, after a bit, we get used to them, and cease to notice them; and then we have time to realise the enjoyable features, which at first we were too much worried to be conscious of.

Suppose you hurt your arm and had to wear it in a sling for a month. For the first two or three days the discomfort of the bandage, the pressure of the sling on the neck and shoulder, the being unable to use the arm, would be a constant worry. You would feel as if all comfort in life were gone; after a couple of days you would be used to the new sensations, after a week you perhaps wouldn’t notice them at all; and life would seem just as comfortable as ever.

So, my advice is, don’t think about loneliness, or happiness, or unhappiness, for a week of two. Then ‘take stock’ again and compare your feelings with what they were two weeks previously. If they have changed, even a little, for the better you are on the right track; if not, we may begin to suspect the life does not suit you. But what I want specially to urge is that there’s no use in comparing one’s feelings between one day and the next; you must allow a reasonable interval for the direction of change to show itself.

Sit on the beach, and watch the waves for a few seconds; you say ‘the tide is coming in’; watch half a dozen successive waves, and you may say ‘the last is the lowest; it is going out.’ Wait a quarter of an hour and compare its average place with what it was at first, and you will say ‘No, it is coming in after all.’

28/03/2020

Welcome to the weekend! If you are thinking of booking an online appointment with me, you can do so with confidence. All appointments are conducted via a password protected link to Zoom Pro, confidentiality is assured. Looking forward to seeing you soon!