Caroline Foster Ad Dip PsyC Hons MBACP Accred Psychotherapy & Supervision

12/07/2025

In Love and Loss and Finding
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Sometimes we may need a vow to help us to stay anchored - this one I share as my gift. Maybe it will resonate with you.

“A Vow to Myself
I vow to honour the truth of my heart,�even when it beats in silence.
I vow to remain open,�but not to abandon myself in the name of love.
I vow to let devotion be a light, not a weight,�to offer it freely, not at the cost of my wholeness.
I vow to trust what I feel,�and also to wait for what is to be proven.
I vow to be faithful to the life within me,�even as I make space for another’s unfolding.
And as love meets me —�real, returned, rooted, in all its uniqueness—�I meet it without fear.�But if it has to be somewhere else for a while,�I will not dim the beauty of how I love.”

11/06/2025

Life can take from us but it also gives ❤️

19/05/2025

https://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/counsellors/caroline-foster

The Inner Cartographer is a therapeutic practice rooted in the belief that every human being holds a rich inner landscape — layered, complex, and worthy of compassionate exploration.

As an integrative psychotherapist and registered health coach, I work collaboratively with you to gently map that inner world — your thoughts, emotions, body states, values, and lived experiences — to uncover patterns, heal wounds, and reconnect with your sense of self.

Drawing from multiple therapeutic traditions, I weave together:

Psychodynamic insight – to explore the unconscious roots of your relational and emotional patterns
Gestalt therapy – to bring awareness to your present-moment experience and support deep self-contact
Parts work and Internal Family Systems (IFS) – to understand the inner dialogue between the many aspects of your personality
Somatic approaches – to tune into the body's wisdom and resolve trauma held below words
Cognitive and behavioural strategies – to support shifts in thinking and behavior where helpful
Narrative and existential traditions – to explore meaning, identity, and the stories that shape your life
My health coaching lens supports the translation of insight into sustainable, embodied change — helping you align your daily life with your inner truths.

Whether you're navigating grief, burnout, identity shifts, creative blocks, or a desire for more authentic connection — we chart your path together. This is a space for reflection and reclamation. A space to remember who you are, and imagine who you are becoming.

04/02/2025

Considering Medicating for Depression with SSRIs?

https://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/counsellors/caroline-foster

31/01/2025

Poetry can be valuable in our searching for change - with its creativity it paints a picture in our hearts ….

26/12/2024

The recent news story of Gisele Pelicot’s abuse at the hands of her husband and others, has drawn my attention to this which I came across:

“I was about 19 or 20 when my the boyfriend took advantage of my sacred slumbers to video my nakedness revealed by him and others as part of their “fun”. I don’t know what else happened then nor on other occasions. It has haunted me for years. I had only lost my father 4 years earlier. My “mistake” was looking for safety and love. When I played the video at a later date to a crowd of his friends the shame was cast not on him, but on me. There is nothing right about that. I didn’t know what else to do.

Youthful ignorance is what I recorded this as, but I will now ask all fathers of daughters, and sons of mothers to reflect upon that “youthful ignorance” and ask yourselves if this would be an acceptable excuse for the mis-treatment of your daughters or your mothers. If you are moved to horror at the thought, then I shall ask you to call upon all your male counterparts to educate young men in the injury they impart when they use “love” as a weapon to influence a young woman, who may be your daughter one day, or may have been your daughter, or was perhaps your mother, to undertake sexual acts that are by all measures an abuse of trust.

I appreciate that this is not a universally gender specific wrong-doing, so if it resonates in any way with you, then I would ask you to do what is necessary to protect our daughters, our sons, our young people. It is my injury that has brought me to write this and I trust you will not want your daughters to be writing anything like this in their lifetime.

Please - make a difference - Make the Change - let there be no shame. “

ANON.

25/12/2024

Remember there is no commitment without sacrifice and neither need to come without grace and honour.

A time to honour our commitments and the sacrifices that came with them and know that we are together in this exercise every day to improve the experiences of everyone who is or ever was a child of this earthly experience -
This Christmas Season is a time for grace and honour ❤️

23/11/2024

Parenting - to educate and teach children how to “be” in life in a way that helps them to meet the necessary attributes of being human - to be sociable, to care about others, to appreciate consequences, to learn that progress can be uncomfortable and that’s ok, the importance of recovery and rest, and to aid their learning of what resilience is for them, to learn who they are in the world … parenting can be complex … it’s a sacrifice that requires commitment and that commitment and sacrifice can be honoured - we all have a childhood - some lessons were hard - and through every experience there is a lesson that can positively impact ours and others lives …

Jordan Peterson, a Canadian psychologist and professor, has discussed various aspects of parenting in his lectures and writings. https://www.youtube.com/watc...

09/11/2024

Whilst there are many qualified therapists and counsellors in the UK, of which I am one such qualified, accredited therapist, this is important information for all..,. Please take time to read, and know that your therapist needs to be able to demonstrate a current and valid membership of a recognised professional organisation such as BACP, UKCP, BPS, NCPS

MPs with experience in mental health say lack of statutory regulation leaves people vulnerable to harm

03/11/2024

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/purchasing-and-rewilding-netherpark-farmland?fbclid=IwY2xjawGUys9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHTnFfhZbTSo_RBSOFExxEb6gV22nEKdsB9Nt9rW61msrjzkT1yZe6EabbA_aem_JK2Fijv1Fm4NB4LdiwJE6g

To purchase & rewild farmland adjacent to Shining Cliff Woodland & create a space for community groups to run nature-based activities.