Sam Buckwell Counselling

13/02/2025

A few moments of my week to share

As usual, these seeds will be the best travelled and documented seeds, moving back and forth between school and my home 🤣

I spend time supporting my youngest clients to nurture their chilli and tomatoes every year.

Hope lies in those beds of dirt 🥰

Winter can feel extraordinarily challenging to many people. It's okay to feel like you want to curl up and wait it out.

Be kind to yourself.

16/12/2024

35 gingerbread stars prepped for decorating with School Wellbeing Club this Wednesday.

Another 35 to go 🤣 and it still won't be enough.

Looking forward to the organised chaos and feeling grateful for my years of experience with groups of children 😀

Youth work training muscle will be flexed💪

11/12/2024

Sometimes this hectic season leaves my young clients leaning towards quiet, calmness in their sessions.

The dark den with lights has been used lots today.

Wishing I had a grown up version to offer 🤔

13/11/2024

Kinetic sand is by far my most popular activity on a Wednesday school day. Always requested and enjoyed.

I love the stuff too 🥰

Kinetic sand is a blank canvas allowing children to create, acknowledge, explore, often destroy and recreate their thoughts, feelings and experiences.

An extension of this activity are sand trays, which can be a powerful way for adults to "play" in sessions. To explore their own thoughts, feelings and experiences within the safe boundaries of a container.

I believe you are never to old to "play" 😊

I am still currently fully booked but please do get in touch if you or your young person would like to be added to my short wait list for consultation in the future.

13/11/2024

Spiffy being Spiffy again 😊

I think we can all agree life feels a bit intense and frazzly lately, so I thought I'd share some helpful self-care reminders. 🙌

Do you use these techniques? Are there any you'd add to the list? 🌈

14/10/2024

Simple pleasures

I hope everyone has enjoyed conker season 🥰

10/10/2024

"This is so cool...take a video Sam"

🤣🤣🤣

(Through the keyhole...
Who lives in a house like this? )

04/10/2024

60 sensory bags decorated in wellbeing club at school.

Each child spending time choosing a pebble for touch and being provided with wild orange scent to lift mood and decrease stress.

The children had requested more sensory activities at the beginning of term and this was so popular the young people unable to take part requested another session.

Success in youth work can be difficult to measure but definitely not in this case.

Beautiful conversations about grounding ourselves, managing stress and noticing our experience.

🥰

01/10/2024

Sometimes sessions are just fun from start to finish for a young client 🥰

Birthday cake making, who then wanted to share their delicious make with their friends.

Spread the joy 😊

31/07/2024

Sam Buckwell Counselling will be closed from Thursday 1st August till Tuesday 3rd September 2024.

It's been a wonderful 2024 for me professionally and I am always thankful to my clients (young and slightly older 😊) who allow themselves to be vulnerable with me.

It takes great courage to begin counselling and to engage and then continue with the process takes a lot of trust. I appreciate that trust.

Thank-you.

I continue to be fully booked for September but please do get in touch if you or your young person are interested in counselling.

My capacity changes and I hold a small waitlist for clients that do not mind delaying their start if they think my practice will suit their needs.

See my website for more details:

https://sambuckwellcounselling.co.uk/

30/07/2024

School sessions ended on a sugar high this term. 😁
(It was lovely to see how many children decorated their biscuit for somebody else to enjoy)

Wellbeing Club has been a joy for me to run and I am so pleased it will be a permanent feature of my increasing primary school schedule next year.

It is an open youth work session based around health and wellbeing.

Themes covered this year include:

-Raising the awareness of play, wellbeing and counselling
-Transitions
-Recognising, naming and managing feelings
-Grief and loss
-Choice and responsibility in our lives
-Body image
-Relationships
-Taking care of our wellbeing

01/06/2024

I've spent most of my career getting to know teenagers. It's been a joy.

I really look forward to thinking outside-the-box in order to connect with humans that are 're-wiring' in their mind, attempting to manage an enormous transition in their bodies and trying to navigate fast paced social expectations and change.

The in-between stage where often games are deemed childish but talking doesn't come easy.

If you or your young person are interested in counselling, please see my website for more details:

Sambuckwellcounselling.co.uk

08/05/2024

What a beautiful day to practice outside 😌

23/04/2024

Can't believe the temperature difference between my Sunday walk and today.

I'm appreciating my toasty, warm therapy space today 🙂

28/03/2024

The pond really was alive this week with tadpoles 🥰

28/03/2024

I am off for a 2 week rest after today.
I will be back to answer any emails, calls and texts on Tuesday 16th April.

It has been a very busy and varied 3 months.
I find that this time of the year can often be a reflective time for people. Winter "hunkering down" can often bring our relationships into sharp focus and we begin or return to considering how we are living our lives.

I am currently fully booked but please get in touch if you or your young person are interested in a consultation for counselling in the future.

https://sambuckwellcounselling.co.uk/

(Photo taken during this week's pond dipping and the excitement of touching tadpoles before gently popping them back in the water)