Awaken Psychotherapeutic Counselling

20/03/2026

🌿 Come Home to Yourself: An 8-Week Yoga & Nervous System Healing Journey

There comes a point where pushing through no longer works.

Where you’re tired of holding it all together.
Tired of overthinking.
Tired of feeling disconnected—from your body, your needs, your truth.

This is your invitation to stop striving…
and start coming home.

This is not just a yoga course.

This is a gentle, therapeutic 8-week journey for women who are ready to:
Regulate a constantly overwhelmed nervous system
Release emotional tension held in the body
Reconnect with themselves after burnout, heartbreak, or years of putting others first
Feel safe, soft, and grounded again

✨ What makes this different

This space is created by a psychotherapist who understands that your body holds your story.

Each week, you’ll be guided through:

Slow, nervous-system-led yoga (no pressure, no perfection)

Emotional awareness and gentle reflection
Practices to help you feel safe in your body again

A deeper understanding of why you feel the way you do

This is not about flexibility.

It’s about feeling again—safely.

🌙 Over 8 weeks, you will begin to:
• Breathe more deeply without forcing it
• Let go of tension you didn’t realise you were holding
• Feel calmer, clearer, and more anchored
• Trust your body instead of overriding it
• Reconnect with parts of yourself you’ve had to shut down

🤍 This is for you if:
• You’re emotionally exhausted but don’t know how to stop
• You feel disconnected from your body or constantly “in your head”
• You’ve experienced heartbreak, burnout, or long-term stress
• You crave a softer, more compassionate way of being

🌿 A gentle promise

You don’t have to be consistent.
You don’t have to get it “right.”
You don’t have to be fixed.

You just have to arrive… exactly as you are.

✨ Your next step

If something in you is quietly saying “I need this”…

Trust that.

Join me for this 8-week journey back to yourself.
Course runs through April and May in person Clevedon

What’s App me for more details
07538029364

08/03/2026

Happy international woman’s Day ❤️

Today isn’t just about celebrating women.
It’s about recognising the quiet courage it takes to become one.

The courage to feel deeply in a world that often asks us to numb.
The courage to walk away from places where our hearts are not met.
The courage to rebuild ourselves after love, loss, betrayal, and silence.

Every woman I work with carries a story of survival that the world rarely sees.

A moment she chose herself.
A boundary she finally spoke.
A truth she stopped apologising for.

This is how women change the world — not only through loud victories, but through the private revolutions of the heart.

So today I honour the women who are healing.
The women who are leaving.
The women who are beginning again.

Because when a woman reclaims her voice,
she doesn’t just transform her own life —
she changes the story for every woman who comes after her.

My journey from becoming a girl to a woman was really difficult for me emotionally and mentally I struggled and added layers of trauma to my existing trauma it took me many years to understand and unravel. It’s a forever lifelong journey but one of the reasons I became a therapist was to help girls like me find their woman inside. ❤️

Take time today to be proud of your woman 💜

02/03/2026

💔 Working Therapeutically With Trauma Bonds

Why is it so hard to let go — even when you know the relationship wasn’t healthy?

If you feel stuck in a cycle of intense attachment, longing, and confusion, you may be experiencing a trauma bond.

Trauma bonds form when love and distress become intertwined. They are not a sign of weakness — they are rooted in attachment patterns and nervous system conditioning.

In private one-to-one sessions, we work gently and clinically to:

• Understand the psychology behind the bond
• Break the cycle of intermittent reinforcement
• Regulate attachment activation
• Rebuild self-trust and boundaries
• Move from familiarity to emotional safety

This is not about blame or “just leaving.”
It’s about understanding what’s happening inside you — and changing it at the root.

If you’re ready to stop repeating painful relational patterns, I’m currently accepting clients for 1:1 trauma-informed attachment work.

Message me privately to enquire.

— Lesley Anne Parfitt
Psychotherapeutic Counsellor

11/01/2026

11/1 ❤️

The father wound isn’t just a concept for me — it’s my lived experience. Five years ago today, I buried my dad, and healing my relationship with that loss has shaped my life, my work, and my calling.
I now support women to heal their father complex, integrate their grief, and come home to themselves.

I grew up with an emotionally unavailable father, survived the wounds it created. Grief cracked me open — and healing rebuilt me.
Today, I guide women through the journey I know in my bones: healing the father wound, reclaiming worth, and choosing emotional truth over silence. This work isn’t academic. It’s personal. It’s lived. And it matters.

If you are navigating the pain of an absent, critical, emotionally unavailable, or lost father, you are not alone. Healing is possible. Integration is possible. And your story deserves tenderness, dignity and truth.

02/01/2026

The Alchemy of Suffering

Every crisis that breaks us is also an invitation.

A woman becomes herself not by climbing the hierarchy of the father’s world, but by descending into the truth of who she is — messy, intuitive, embodied, and whole.

Reclaiming the Mother Within
When a woman nurtures herself from within, she no longer seeks approval from the father’s world. She becomes her own source of love.

A woman returns from her descent with a deeper truth. She no longer fits the old world, because she has woven a new one inside herself.

Leaving My Father’s House is an online retreat day for women ready to explore emotional separation, inner authority, and conscious femininity through a trauma-aware, embodied lens. The workshop offers space for insight, grief, and reconnection — supporting a shift from inherited roles into self-led presence.

DM for more details ❤️

27/12/2025

Join me back on the Mat in January 2026

I am going to be guiding you through some deeply somatic yoga asanas and pranayama.
We will start slowly warming up the body and then move deeply into asanas that really evoke emotion. I work deeply in yoga to help with the body mind connection my classes are not a workout more of a work in, to help release tension and emotion. I will bring the tissues.

Yoga is not just a physical practice; it is a quiet conversation with the body where emotions are often held long after the mind has tried to move on. Through breath, slow movement, and stillness, yoga creates a sense of safety that allows suppressed feelings to surface naturally. Hips, chest, jaw, and belly are common places where grief, fear, and unexpressed emotion live, and when these areas soften, emotions can arise without force or analysis.

Emotional release in yoga isn’t something we make happen—it’s something we allow. Tears, sighs, shaking, or a sudden sense of relief are the nervous system discharging what it no longer needs to carry. In this way, yoga becomes a gentle form of healing: not about fixing or pushing through, but about listening, trusting the body’s wisdom, and letting go at a pace that feels kind and contained.

nervous-system-led, trauma-aware embodiment
Classes are 90 mins long
Face to face in Clevedon

04/09/2025

12/08/2025

Hi ladies

September Women’s Breathwork Circle is now open for booking 24th sept 6pm to 8.30pm. Clevedon face to face

Welcome to our Breathwork Women’s Circle
This is a sacred space for women to gather, breathe, and be witnessed. Here, we come together not to fix or change each other, but to reconnect with the wisdom already within. Through the power of conscious breath, we soften what has been held too tightly, release what no longer serves us, and make space for new beginnings. In this circle, your story matters, your emotions are welcome, and your truth is honoured. Together, we breathe as a way home—to ourselves, to each other, and to the deep peace that waits beneath it all.

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The Benefits of Conscious Connected Breathwork
Conscious Connected Breathwork is a gentle yet powerful practice that uses a continuous, rhythmic breath to bypass the busy mind and access deeper layers of the body and subconscious. This intentional breathing pattern helps regulate the nervous system, bringing a sense of calm and clarity.

Emotional Benefits:
• Releases suppressed emotions and stored trauma from the body.
• Reduces anxiety, overwhelm, and emotional tension.
• Encourages self-compassion and emotional resilience.

Physical Benefits:
• Increases oxygen flow, boosting energy and vitality.
• Improves circulation and supports detoxification.
• Releases physical tension and stress held in the muscles.

Spiritual Benefits:
• Deepens connection to self and intuition.
• Promotes feelings of peace, presence, and wholeness.
• Opens space for insight, creativity, and inner guidance.

Breathwork can be a gentle unraveling or a profound breakthrough—meeting you exactly where you are and guiding you toward where you need to be.

Ladies booking is limited due to the emotional element of this type of work
07538029364 to book your space ❤️

20/01/2025

Hi ladies

Are you feeling stressed, overwhelmed, maybe depressed or anxious or just not quite feeling yourself and feel yourself slipping away from the person you want to be or used to be.

I am a psychotherapeutic counsellor and psychotherapist who specialises in female therapy as women we go through so many different stages in life from maiden, huntress, mother, lover and crone and these rights of passage can be extremely hard to navigate. Therapy is extremely important and helpful at certain times in our lives it’s time for ourselves to completely put every mask we wear or role we play in life down and be just who we are without judgement or advice that we sometimes receive from friends or family that isn’t necessary or needed.

I have space in my Clevedon practice for a few new female clients this year if your wanting to really do some deep work in therapy. I offer long term client work or even if you feel you just need to odd check in from time to time to dip in and out of therapy I also offer that for clients that have been through a therapeutic relationship before. Therapy changed my life for the better and that is what made me train as a therapist to help other women navigate the huge changes we face in life. I offer a free consultation assessment to see if we are suited to working with each other.

I am also an eating disorder specialist who specialises in all types of eating disorders I am trained in a pluralistic therapy approach. This means I am qualified in different types of therapy such as CBT, Psychoanalysis, humanistic and can work with whatever style most suits you.

I work with many different things in my practice from trauma, addiction, attachment styles, relationship issues, self sabotage, perfectionism, the inner critic, inner child, anything you feel that maybe holding you back from being who you want to be and thriving in life.

Please feel free to reach out for any other questions you may have about working with me this year!

I offer face to face therapy as well as online therapy. I am fully registered and insured with The national counselling and Psychotherapy society.

24/10/2024

Hi ladies

My next yoga beginner’s workshop is in November is now open for booking in Clevedon
If you would like more details what’s app 07538029364

Yoga for beginners workshop is a four week yoga course for women only. 4 X Saturday mornings 8am to 9.30am in Clevedon.

2nd November
9th November
23rd November
30th November

This yoga course is for anyone interested in learning more about yoga asana and pranayama, Someone that maybe wants to get deeper into practice or someone that wants to work on healing connection to self. It’s perfect for someone who has never done yoga before or very little and wants to learn the fundamentals.
Each week we will learn different asanas building up to a flow practice. I will teach about the different yoga styles and how yoga can really improve your emotional and mental body not just the physical. We will explore somatic techniques and be in circle with other sisters. This is a yoga beginners workshop like no others as I bring my own personal experience, practice and medicine to share with you and meet you where you are on your journey with self and the body. This isn’t a workshop to showcase talents it’s a deeply healing journey that I hope you will remember it as a gateway back to self ❤️‍🩹

I am 550 RYT qualified in Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin and specialist in Menopause yoga and trauma informed. I am also a trainee psychotherapeutic counsellor so these spaces I hold and open for women are very important to me to be held with the highest of integrity.

If you would like to secure a place of this workshop please reach out. As spaces are limited due to the emotional element of this type of work. Women only ✨ message me for more details ✨🧘‍♀️
Namaste ✨ Lesley

02/09/2024

Joining a women’s circle is a meaningful way to bond with other women, no matter their age or background. Each woman’s journey is unique. A women’s circle celebrates where you are and where you want to go. And it also helps you process your past.

There are many mental and physical benefits that come from gathering with women in a non-judgemental, loving space.

A circle is an open, welcoming place to share your thoughts and life experiences. Women gather together, leaving behind judgment and focusing on connection. Many women travel through life feeling alone. But our experiences and feminine struggles are universal. We only have to share them to see how much we all truly have in common. During a women’s circle, you can share your deepest thoughts, loves, and fears. We’re all here for each other, holding space and withholding judgment. It is a safe space where lasting bonds are made. If you find yourself keeping negative thoughts bottled inside, a women’s circle is a great place to let them flow. Release the stress that these thoughts hold and connect with others who understand.

A women’s circle can help you see how amazing you are. In circle, women can feel the benefits of being supportive and loving. Competition does not live here. So tackle those doubts and let your self-love soar.

Attending a women’s circle can lead to overall better self-care. You are filling your own cup instead of always putting yourself on the backburner.

Come and join like minded sisters sharing stories, tears, laughter, love and joy with myself. I am a trainee psychotherapeutic counsellor and women’s circle facilitator. My main reason for starting women’s circles back in 2019 was to bring more connection to the feminine into my own life and I found circles so enriching I knew I had to birth this beautiful work myself. My circles are full of rituals, stories, heart medicine, cacao, herbal teas, and deep dives into the feminine aspects. We journey with the different archetypal energies and myths that surround the divine feminine.

Each circle is uniquely shaped around different astrological events and mother Gaia. These circles are kept small due to the emotional nature. ✨💕

This circle we explore women who run with the wolves and the myths of women through Clarissa Pinkola work
30th Oct 6pm Clevedon

Group hypnosis session is also included in this circle.

Please what’s app me for more details

Spaces are limited due to the emotional element of this type of work.

Lesley 07538029364

12/01/2024

New moon 🌚 in Aquarius ♒️ women’s Cacao and Breathwork Circle now open for booking

Moon in Aquarius has a strong need for emotional freedom. After a long dark winter we start to feel the light coming back slowly I up our lives. Giving us thoughts of moving and changing our lives ready for a new season approaching.

Aquarius new moon will activate us to be our authentic selves, and we’ll feel pushed to transform and change what’s not in alignment.

This upcoming Aquarius season will be a rare impetus for change in our individual lives and as a collective. Not only will the sun be in Aquarius, but we will experience Pluto’s reentrance into Aquarius. Pluto is the planet of destruction and it will again push away what in our lives isn’t serving us.

Come sit in circle with like minded sisters calling in your highest potential and letting go of all the heaviness that you’ve been carrying through conscious connected breathwork and drinking ceremonial cacao opening your heart and intuition to your higher self.

Spaces are limited due to the emotional element of this type of work. Women only space

DM me for more details ❤️‍🩹