ways to work together
Rooted Sessions
One-to-one integrative and body oriented sessions - my approach to working with you is 4 dimensional. We work with the body (soma), mind/spirit (psyche), breath (pneuma) and Earth (Gaia) based practices to integrate as a whole.
Depending on your reasoning for finding yourself here in this space the approach is tailored to meet you were you are now. This is not just a talking therapy approach. Please read the 'About' section to understand more about background training, practices and approaches you may experience in these sessions.
In person or online.
Sessions 60/90 minutes - £90/£135 (min block of 6)
Please email or submit a contact form to discuss availability.
Grounding sessions
One to one (in person & online) one off, ad hoc, pay as you go sessions
You can book these sessions as a one off, or in a small block (3-4 sessions)
These 90 minute sessions are about presence, curiosity and awareness.
Sometimes we don't desire regular therapeutic support but would appreciate the space to be seen, heard and witnessed in what is here for us right now and to be supported to be deeply curious it. These sessions are particularly helpful if we are sensing 'stuckness' or have a specific 'thing' that we want to shine the spotlight on. The sessions are gentle but provide deep exploration of all that you wish to share, allowing for reflection to enable you to gain clarity, awareness and grounding of what is. When we feel seen and heard and held in safety, without judgement or fear or shame, we create the conditions that are needed to deepen our awareness and connection to what is within us, and without. These sessions are to hold you with compassion and care, in absolute presence, to expand curiosity and deepen your connection with self.
You will be met exactly as you are, and all of you is welcome here.
Within the sessions we may explore working with:
Body | Soma -using somatic processes, deep body listening and therapeutic touch
Mind | Psyche - using creative Arts processes and symbolism where appropriate
Breath | Pneuma - down regulating breathwork practices, voice activation or sounding release
Earth | Gaia - Nature connection exercises
Investment : £121 - 90 minute session
Available in person at Wilderness Wood or Online. Please email or submit a contact form to enquire about availability
"All I can say is that was beautiful yesterday: I feel like I have found the healing path i've been searching for. From start to end felt so gentle but deep... i feel like love has been poured through my veins"
— Grounding session client
THERAPEUTIC BODYWORK
"The body remembers, the bones remember, the joints remember, even the little finger remembers. Memory is lodged in pictures and feelings in the cells themselves. Like a sponge filled with water, anywhere the flesh is pressed, wrung, even touched lightly, a memory may flow out in a stream" ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women Who Run With the Wolves
Crown - Heart - Core - Roots
(Full body)
2 hour Therapeutic Touch Ceremony
(max 2 wisdom centres)
*Wisdom centres of the body will be decided upon in pre consultation depending on your physical, emotional and spiritual needs
Investment:
3 hours - £300
2 hours - £222*
90 mins - £166*
Your body is your greatest wisdom centre...
In body psychotherapy I work not just with the mind but the visceral experience of the body as we work together. The body retains e-motion ("energy in motion") which inhabits our physical vessel. Touch is one way we can work with the energetics of the body to help process ancestral, past and present experiences stored in our cells, muscles, joints, bones and flesh. Informed by Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) theory, we acknowledge that emotions are stored in certain areas of the body and through touch can be encouraged and invited to be ex-pressed. This ceremony weaves a range of modalities and techniques catering to your individual needs. This includes (yet is not exclusive to) sacred touch, Thai massage techniques, reflexology, rebozo wrapping, sound healing, energy work, deep fascia release work & shamanic ritual.
We connect with the following Wisdom Centres to open & clear these spaces:
Crown ¦ Head, Neck & throat, Jaw,
Heart ¦ Chest space, shoulders, lungs, inc. breasts
Core ¦ Diaphragm, Stomach, womb/sacral
Roots ¦ Feet, Legs, Pelvis
This is not just a massage. This is meditation in motion. Therapeutic touch. It is a prayer upon your body. An invitation to re-calibrate and reconnect all the parts of your being at centre. Re-membering, releasing and returning - this bodywork is a prayer, in devotion to you.
"In this ceremony, I was able to take a journey inward; to uncover buried treasure lying latent in my being - in my body. Helen's loving touch and passion for this work is an invitation, from one body to another, to come back into alignment where self love can arise and does, in a safe and cosy container of respect, peace and reverence for the human be-ing"
Mike
Bodywork Client - Touch based therapy
Play & Creative Arts therapy
Play Therapy is available as one-to-one sessions for children aged 4+. These sessions are lead by qualified and accredited Therapists who specialise in supporting your child's emotional wellbeing. To find out more about Play Therapy in general and this approach to working with children and young people please refer to the following website www.playtherapy.org.uk
We recommend a minimum of 12 sessions which take place weekly (term time only) for 45 minutes. In these sessions your child has access to a creative 'tool box' to encourage freedom of expression. Play is the means by which children process their lived experience and emotions without the limitation of vocabulary and cognitive processing. They use art materials, clay, role play, sand trays, small world figures, music, games and some directed creative visualisations or therapeutic storytelling to support their emotional needs.
Current availability: Availability (Thursdays) - open to enquiries
Please email or use the contact form to enquire.
Price £65 per session minimum block of 12 sessions
Root & Release - Breathwork & somatic body listening process
£95 initial assessment - 90 minutes
ongoing breathwork £65 per session thereafter - 50 minutes
One off Ceremony - 2 hours - £150 - somatic process & breathwork
As an Oxygen Advantage breathwork coach, we use a method that is effective for both body and mind. The breathing exercises are tailored to individual needs, taking into account factors such as breathing patterns, age, and health status of the client. It is particularly effective for people who might suffer with chronic or high levels of stress, anxiety, sleep difficulties, PTSD, depression and other asthma or allergy related breathing complications. We will begin with an initial assessment and move onto a tailor made ongoing program. I will teach you the science of what is happening in your body and techniques that will down regulate your nervous system helping you to relax and calm your body and mind.
The Grove - Peer supervision circle
A space for Qualified or in-training therapists working with adults and children and young people.
This is a space for us to meet to discuss and process both our own and client processes, share experience and skills, and to see support from other therapy professionals. It is also a space for some serious self care and nourishment as we as therapists need that too.
Presently, there are therapists from various modalities within the space: play therapy, art therapy, dance & movement therapy, music therapists, person centred counsellors, psychotherapists, clinical psychologists etc The space is nurturing and enriching.
We meet once a month on a Tuesday at Wilderness Wood, 7-9pm
Please email to express your interest and to receive dates and exact location.
Investment: £20pp