Prue Chambers Psychotherapy

16/08/2022

Prue is now offering EMDR therapy (eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing). For more information please follow the link.

trauma and EMDR treatment

20/12/2021

Prue is now an accredited Griefline Counsellor

31/08/2021

Please read my latest blog: Could you be a better friend?

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25/03/2021

What does consent actually mean? Please read my most recent post and make sure you watch the video!

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23/02/2021

Please check out my most recent blog, How to give your love life a tune up.

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05/04/2020

Please click on my latest blog that provides some useful resources and info about coping with our new lives.
The What, why and how of our reactions to the new world we find ourselves in....

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24/03/2020

We are embarking on a very strange and unsettling time in our lives. There is so much being written, shared and talked about. I wanted to contribute some back to basic ideas to support our self care.

Continue exercising, whether inside, a walk with your dog, a ride on your bike, obviously following guidelines to keep ourselves and others safe.

Reach out to others via phone, text, online. Ideas of having a skype get togethers/ parties, the whole street sitting out on their driveway or balconies to feel more connected with each other even though we cannot be 'physically' with each other.

If all members of your family are well in your household, hug, hold hands, pat pets and receive safe physical touch.

Play games, craft, puzzles with your family.

Play sport/ garden in the back yard.

Put restrictions on watching the news and social media.

Share your feelings, whether anxious, hopeful, scared.

Chat as a family about what are and could be some positive outcomes of this pandemic.

Be honest and open with children, share your own feelings with them. Some excellent picture books about anxiety and worry that may help are 'My big bag of worries' and Birds have anxiety too'. 'The Invisible String' is a very timely book at the moment too, a visual and symbolic reminder that even though we may not be together we are all connected through our strings or love with each other and to remember to pull on them when we need that reminder of love from each other.

Most importantly monitor yourself and if you are not coping and need extra support reach out to a friend or family, lifeline or professional. I am available for skype or phone sessions and if finances are an issue I can offer discounted rates.

Take care of yourselves and each other.