The Resting Tree

14/06/2025

On unhooking the ache from the image.

“I miss xyz”
becomes
“I miss being held, known, witnessed.”
becomes
“I ache for contact, for belonging, for the quiet hum of being-with.”
becomes
“This is what it means to be alive: to carry longing as part of my humanity.”
becomes
“Loneliness is not a punishment, but it’s a facet of presence.”

This is working through existential loneliness. This, then, is no longer proof that we are unloved, but becomes a rite of passage into being awake, vulnerable, and receptive. It becomes a threshold. Not to be bypassed. Not to be solved. But walked.

We're not dissolving the pain.
We're giving it shape.
And that is what allows it to move.
Not because it has been answered, but because it has been seen. And this is where Paleophenomenology isn't just a research method, but it becomes a practice.

A unique one-day experiential workshop blending field exploration, deep reflection, and creative inquiry. Ideal for curious minds from all backgrounds: wherever you are, this journey can begin.

11/06/2025

So v grateful!

11/06/2025

Introducing: The Inner Cartography Session

Feeling lost in the fog? Circling the same loops? Searching for direction but nothing quite fits?
If you’ve tried therapy, coaching, supervision, yoga and fasting, or every self-help book & tool you could get your hands on, watched all the relevant YouTube videos, and something still feels off, missing, or incomplete...

This is a 90-minute, one-to-one in-person session designed to help you map your inner terrain, to find clarity, orientation, and new possibilities when the way forward feels obscured.

Rooted in my original paleophenomenological method, this work goes beyond therapy or coaching. It’s deep soul-mapping, holding space for your patterns, dreams, and deep questions, with gentle tools and careful reflection.
If you’ve tried everything [maybe even a pilgrimage or medication] and still feel like something is missing, this session is for you.

Limited spaces available in Blackburn, UK.
Choose the fee that honours your journey: £120–£180.
Follow-up integration session also available.

www.matildetomat.com/the-inner-cartography-session

Discover The Inner Cartography Session: a 90-minute one-to-one paleophenomenological session in Blackburn, UK. Find clarity and direction through deep soul mapping, tailored for those feeling lost or stuck in life’s loops.

03/06/2025

Supervision [whether clinical, professional, or otherwise] isn’t about improving your practice: it’s about rooting it deeper.

I made this guide for those of us who walk the in-between: The Field Companion for the Imaginal Explorer. A practical guide to embodied noticing, mapping, and reflection in the field or studio.

It’s a journal, a practice, and a place to rest. It supports you to track, ground, and reflect on your inner and outer journeys: therapy, supervision, presence or soul-searching.

Ideal for therapists, practitioners, artists, creatives or anyone working at the edge of the known.

Available to download via my shop.

www.matildetomat.com/shop

31/05/2025

Therapy is not what you think.

Not a service.
Not a fix.
Not “help.”
And certainly not what the world has sold it to be.

In my latest blog, I speak from the liminal field itself, as a paleophenomenologist, a therapist, a witness.
Not of symptoms, but of thresholds.
Not of treatment, but of presence.

This is for those who know there’s more: more than diagnosis, more than intervention. More than pacifying.

This is for the ones who feel it in their bones: that healing happens in the in-between. That therapy is a field, not a formula.
A shared fire, not a protocol.

>>> Therapy Is Not What You Think.

These are notes from the edges of the known.
From the place where myth, mud, and modernity meet.

🔗 www.matildetomat.com/latest
Let it meet you where you are. Let it undo a little.

27/05/2025

A supervision that integrates soul and stone

I offer supervision for therapists, creatives and professionals who are working at the edge: between deep feeling, creative emergence, and alchemical & symbolic thinking.

Whether you're existential, integrative, or soul-led, a chaplain or a Jung aficionado, I bring paleophenomenology into supervision in ways that honour the body, the myth, and the moment.

If you’re craving a supervisor who gets nuance and doesn't rush: get in touch!
Info, details & methodology at www.matildetomat.com/therapy-mentoring-trt

26/05/2025

Sometimes, the deepest work isn’t about understanding: it’s about remembering with the body.
In psychotherapy, especially through paleophenomenology, we explore how ancient traces [like the need to leave a mark, to gesture, to call out into time] still live in us.
There is an inner calling, and we are trying to respond to this forgotten signal. I offer psychotherapy and clinical supervision for those who long to connect to something deeper.

www.matildetomat.com

25/05/2025

"Years of Person-Centred counselling [in training and partly as a psychotherapist] gave me reflection. But it didn't hand me the tiller. It mirrored my story but didn’t help me write the next chapter. It validated my feelings and deposited me on a sandbank".

When therapy and paleophenomenology go hand-in-hand.

... therapy is not always enough > Years of Person-Centred counselling gave me reflection. But it didn't hand me the tiller. It mirrored my story but didn’t help me write the next chapter. It validated my feelings and deposited me on a sandbank.

03/03/2025

📩 Exciting Update! 📩

I’ve recently made some changes to my professional contact details. The Resting Tree website has permanently been absorbed under matildetomat.com with its dedicated email as TRT@matildetomat.com for all things therapeutic & supervisory.

Feel free to visit for the latest updates and information on my work!

Thank you for your continued support!
Matilde

https://www.matildetomat.com/therapy-mentoring-trt

Psychotherapy and Mentoring in Blackburn - The Resting Tree - MT, MBACP

21/02/2025

Having now concluded my clinical supervision course, I have amended accordingly my page, description, fees and what's on offer. You can find all the new details on my website

www.matildetomat.com/therapy-mentoring-trt

Psychotherapy and Mentoring in Blackburn - The Resting Tree - MT, MBACP

12/02/2025

All this in Blackburn!
Including my the OPEN STUDIO PRACTICE series - Matilde Tomat - mt

at Training for Counsellors

📢 Exciting Events This March at Training for Counsellors. Whether you're looking to deepen your practice, gain new insights, or connect with like-minded professionals, we’ve got something for you this month: 9th March – Working with Dreams Workshop 10th March – Open Studio Practice 12th...

07/01/2025

on conscious and unconscious processes, being cross-wired, the mis-alignment between what we need and what we want, and old dear Jung [et al.]

What beast lies at the centre of your labyrinth? This post is all about conscious and unconscious processes, being cross-wired, mis-alignment between what we want and what we need, and being Messy Mat.

On my website : matildetomat.com/latest

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