Catherine Powell Cognitive Hypnotherapy

10/09/2025

08/09/2025

In therapy, we encounter many faces of survival.

Some clients please and placate, smoothing over conflict to secure safety.
Some lie, twist, or manipulate, believing distortion is the only way to stay in connection.
Some shout, wound, or rage and demand their only way to ensure they can have their needs met.

Though they look different, each behaviour is a trauma response, a strategy born from the uncertainty of survival. And each carries its own relational weight.

*The Therapist’s Challenge

-With the pleaser, authenticity is hidden. The therapeutic relationship may feel warm on the surface, while deeper wounds remain inaccessible.

-With the manipulator, trust falters. The therapist may feel disoriented, left questioning what is real.

- With the demanding, safety is tested. The intensity can overwhelm, leaving the therapist struggling to stay grounded and compassionate.

Working with these responses isn’t only technically demanding,it is emotionally painful.
As therapists we may feel a myriad of things with its foundations based in our own relational trauma.

The Way Through

The task is not to fix or erase these patterns, but to see them as adaptations, the best strategies a person could find to survive.

When we recognise survival logic, compassion becomes possible. Not just for the client, but also for ourselves as practitioners navigating the difficulty.

This is the paradox of trauma therapy: Trauma responses create relational difficulty, And they are also if handled properly provide the gate way for clients healing.

Holding both truths is where healing begins.

08/09/2025

24/07/2025

Proud to say that I am an InCorr Method practitioner

19/07/2025

We rise by healing.

At InCorr, we’re not just training practitioners we’re building a movement.

A movement to support therapists and coaches to heal,
so they can guide clients not just toward coping but toward wholeness.

And when a client heals at the level of the nervous system,
their family shifts. Their parenting shifts. Their relationships transform.

This is how the ripple spreads.

➤ Therapist heals →
➤ Client heals →
➤ Family heals →
➤ Generations change

This is how we rise.
Through interoception, safety, and a return to the body’s wisdom.

💙 Welcome to the InCorr Method.
Healing the healers so the world can heal.

18/06/2025

When we understand this and how it affects us all, we can all become more compassionate, especially to ourselves 💜

A baby’s cry is a biological signal that their body is in distress and they need support.

In early development, their brain relies on these moments to shape how it responds to the world. When a caregiver consistently shows up, the brain begins to wire for safety, connection, and trust.

When those cries are ignored, the baby’s body stays flooded with stress, and the brain starts preparing for a world where needs go unmet. This affects how they regulate emotion, how they seek comfort, and how they form relationships—often in ways that are hard to undo.

Always tend to your little one’s physical and emotional needs. Their future depends on it.

18/06/2025

Delighted to have passed my Level 2 qualification https://www.facebook.com/clearingbyshaunaquigley

19/05/2025

I am delighted to say that I am now a qualified Clearing specialist. Check out Shauna's perfect explanation as to why her methodology is successful when working with trauma.

03/05/2025

For people caring for a loved one with an eating disorder, The Charlie Waller Trust offers workshops, using the New Maudsley Approach, providing professional techniques for supporting the recovery of children and young people.
You can find details here

Caring for a loved one with an eating disorder can be exhausting, distressing and disorientating. Many carers feel they are drowning, they have tried everything and don’t know where to turn next.

22/04/2025

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g40wwn54eo?fbclid=IwY2xjawJ0f-5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHj3aeUBzKyZIbt9g2QRu7XZBSS-U2S4WBGMeu26KqejOWBL6Vz6sTjYyqP65_aem_0YAJa3wl773MOQXLytun1w

A new app which uses augmented reality is being trialled as a digital therapy to help teenagers.

07/04/2025

My friend and fellow therapist is offering online exam preparation sessions for teens. Deadline to apply is 18th April. Great value!