The Therapy Room

11/10/2025

05/10/2025

Think about ways to improve routines and the environment if you need help for a restful nights sleep. Fresh laundered linen and comfortable pillows are always welcome, but we can make daily rituals with small changes:
▪︎ A space free from clutter to allow our minds to relax.
▪︎ Keep your room cool with a good air flow; use throws to snuggle into.
▪︎ Bring in nature - plants such as lavender, peace lilys, and jasmine. Use essential oils and natural sounds such as ocean waves to slow down a busy mind.
▪︎ A Himalayan crystal rock salt lamp provides an ambient soft, warm glow and generates negative ions.
▪︎ Get into a routine of placing your phone away from temptation when you settle down, and set your intention to say goodbye to the outside world as you rest and restore.
▪︎ Learn a simple bodyscan if your brain struggles to remain present.

03/10/2025

Sometimes, it's about early nights and skipping the meetup with friends because it's been a long, hard week. It might be ignoring that voice in your head that says you're lazy or selfish. Today, self care might mean staying home, watching a much loved film, or playing some music that makes you happy 🧡

03/08/2025

Last weekend was busy! I met up with friends/fellow post grads to explore Body Psychotherapy from a different perspective, and explored new ways to support my clients to:
• Slow down, busy, overthinking brains with therapeutic touch, movement, and awareness.
• Release physical and emotional blocks.
• Support people to understand how and why pain and tension get ‘stuck’ in the body.
• Identify relevant ways to release pain and tension.

This isn't about ‘hacks’ or ‘quick fixes’ or pushing hard, but exploring what's relevant and effective for you. It's also potent...but gentle, safe, and I go at a pace that works for you.

We explored:
• How we think, feel, and the body's reactions via talk, movement and touch therapy.
• The impact our emotions have on our body.
• The embodied approach - combining the physical body, the conscious and subconscious brain, and sensory awareness.

I hope in the not-so-distant future, more therapists will train to integrate rather than separate thinking from feeling and the brain from the body. It was wonderful to see the talk therapists on the course discover the power of mind/body therapy in action.
TBH, we covered lots more…and I’m looking forward to sharing it 🥰

29/07/2025

Treatments returning to Annan - https://mailchi.mp/ad3cd33e4ae2/treatments-returning-to-annan-5849512

10/07/2025

One of the most challenging things about receiving a massage is knowing what to do with your headspace. We all have brains that are busy, they have a job to do, and it can get in the way when you want some quiet time to yourself. Mindfulness is a wonderful tool to have... but it takes hard work and practice to get it right. Over the years, I've found effective ways to support clients on the table to receive the very best mind-body experience.

14/06/2025

Busy week...later start today. All set. Whatever youŕe doing, enjoy your weekend 💛

01/05/2025

The Therapy Room

21/04/2025

Pillows and towels everywhere...time to tidy up at the end of a busy day. I hope you've all made the most of the Bank Holiday weekend.
Wishing you all a wonderful week ahead 😍

05/04/2025

Why can't I feel the fear and do it anyway?

Being strong, positive, grounded, confident, and happy is not a logical choice. 

Our nervous system makes the decisions on our behalf…it's not under our conscious control, and if it's dysregulated, we become anxious, agitated, emotional, or go into shutdown.

If you struggle to follow all the wonderful advice you've heard from friends, in podcasts or in a book, it's not your fault and its completely normal; it's your Nervous System trying to keep you safe.

27/03/2025

For a short period Tara will be offering treatment in the Therapy Room in ANNAN! Hurry as places are very limited.