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10/10/2025

Reframe Friday: Becoming a Therapist:

Everyone thinks being a therapist is about empathy and giving advice.

But the reality? It’s about whether you can tolerate discomfort, sit with silence, and show up when it’s hard.

Would you still want to do it?

10/10/2025

Your Local Wirral Mental Health Directory:

Find your Local NHS Talking Therapies:
https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/mental-health-services/find-nhs-talking-therapies-for-anxiety-and-depression/

Calm Harm App - https://calmharm.co.uk/ DistrACT- https://www.nhs.uk/apps-library/distract/

Compañeros café – 0151 488 8135 / 2A Price Street, Birkenhead, CH41 6JN (1pm - 10pm)
Open to adults 18+ experiencing crisis, offering support and other interventions

QWELL – https://www.qwell.io/
An online mental wellbeing community for adults aged 26+

Martin Gallier Project – 0151 644 0294 (9.30am-4.30pm)
Offering crisis support and interventions.

NHS 111
Call 111 for 24 hour helpline for health advice and reassurance (non-emergency)

Saneline - 0300 304 7000 (6pm - 11pm)
SANE runs a national, out-of-hours mental health helpline offering specialist emotional support and information to anyone affected by mental illness including families, friends and carers.

Samaritans
116 123 - 24 hour confidential, non-judgmental emotional support for people experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those that could lead to su***de.

Shout: text SHOUT to 85258
Shout is a free, confidential support text service for anyone who is in crisis.

Silver Line - 0800 4 70 80 90 (https://www.thesilverline.org.uk/)
24 Hour telephone helpline for older adults

StayAlive - https://www.stayalive.app/
• If your life or someone else’s life is in immediate danger, CALL 999.
• Alternatively, if you need to talk to someone in confidence, the Samaritans are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Phone 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org.

10/10/2025

Not having it all together doesn’t make you a fraud - it makes you human!

It's my last post for National Work Life Week and I've been Talking about being a Therapist.

Yesterday I admitted something: sometimes I feel like a fraud. My life feels chaotic, and I definitely don’t have it all together.

But here’s the reframe.
That stripped wallpaper and stepladders behind me on Teams? That wasn’t evidence I’m failing. It was evidence I’m human.

And when clients sit with me, they don’t need a perfect therapist. They need a human being who can hold their story without judgement.

Therapy isn’t about showing up flawless. It’s about showing up real.

👉 If you’ve ever told yourself “I’m not enough because I’m not perfect” — try reframing it: “My imperfections connect me to others.”

That’s the real power of being human.

09/10/2025

Sometimes therapy is about finding clarity, safety, and understanding after life turns upside down.

Here’s what one client shared about their experience with GetCBT 👇

09/10/2025

Please can you take the time to answer 5 questions for a client of mine (4 mins):

Please read the following scenario and answer the questions: You are walking around a crowded open-air event, E.g exhibition or fair. You see 2 parents with an 8 year old boy. The child is screaming, swearing “I’m going to F*** kill you, I hate you” . He is biting and trying to kick out. It ap...

09/10/2025

When everything falls apart, Mental Healthcare shouldn’t.
We talk about shelter, food, and safety. But what about the mind?

Refugees don’t just flee places - they carry invisible wounds. Mental health care must be there, wherever they are.

09/10/2025

Loop Thought Thursday

“My therapist must have it all together.”
The truth? Mmmmmmmm, No. I feel like a fraud sometimes. Last week I was sat in front of 5 tons of stripped wallpaper and chaos.

Therapists aren’t perfect. They’re human. And that’s what makes therapy real.

08/10/2025

Therapy isn’t just about talking.

It’s about learning the skills to think, feel, and respond differently - for life.

At GetCBT, we use science-backed methods like Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) to help you understand your mind - not fight it.

Because feeling better shouldn’t be left to chance.

It comes from structured, evidence-based therapy that’s built to create real change - not temporary relief.

Every session is guided by compassion and science, helping you make sense of patterns that keep you stuck and teaching you the tools to move forward.

🧠 We're here when you're ready to explore therapy that works - because you deserve to feel better for good.

🔗 [getcbt.co.uk]

08/10/2025

Therapy isn’t all dramatic breakthroughs.
Sometimes it’s silence, small shifts, and invisible progress that only shows up later.

That’s the reality Social Media doesn’t show you

08/10/2025

I’ve started doing TikTok videos about therapy… but here’s one thing I will say.

Therapy TikTok makes it look like every client leaves transformed. Instant breakthroughs, dramatic tears, hugs at the end.

But inside the therapy room, the reality is very different. It’s quiet. It’s slow.
It’s a client staring at the floor, while I sit with the silence and resist the urge to jump in.

And yes - in the photo I’m smiling, but that was a photoshoot. I’m not always smiling and laughing in sessions. Clients get the real me, and honestly… I’ve got a resting bitch face most of the time.

When I first started out, I thought silence meant awkwardness at least. At most, failure. Now I know it’s often where the real work begins.

Change doesn’t always happen in front of me. Sometimes a client leaves thinking nothing has shifted - then a week later they tell me they handled something in a completely new way.

That’s the therapy reality. It’s not always dramatic. It’s not always visible. But it’s powerful.

👉 If you’ve ever been in therapy, did your biggest changes happen inside the room… or outside it?

06/10/2025

Therapist Reacts:

Why I’ve Never Had CBT I’m a CBT therapist but when I needed therapy, I didn’t choose CBT.

In my twenties I had psychodynamic counselling, and during my second pregnancy I tried CAT. Both gave me something I couldn’t give myself as a CBT therapist: a different lens, a way of seeing myself from the outside in.

It raises a big question:

Should therapists pick the therapy they practise or the one that challenges them in new ways?

Which would you choose?

06/10/2025

Sometimes I feel like such a fraud.

There’s a loop thought many clients carry: “My therapist must have it all together. They never struggle like I do.”

Here’s my truth: sometimes my life feels chaotic too.
Just last week, I switched off my Teams background and revealed what was really behind me — stepladders, piles of stripped wallpaper, bare plaster walls literally hanging off. Not exactly the picture of calm and control.

And honestly? It was a relief to show it. Because the myth of the “perfect therapist” doesn’t help anyone. If anything, it fuels shame. Clients compare themselves to an ideal that doesn’t exist and think, “I’ll never get there.”

But the reality is: I don’t have it all together. No therapist does. What makes therapy work isn’t perfection - it’s humanity.

👉 Have you ever felt like a fraud because your life looked messier than people assumed?