Sandra C. Ormeño Counsellor & Coach

Sandra C. Ormeño Counsellor & Coach Welcome! Here I accompany you on your journey to empowerment, growth, self discovery & self understa Each therapy can be booked individually or as a combination.

Hello, I am Sandra and I am the founder of BestYou Therapies Ormeno, a therapeutic practice based in Dundee (Scotland). I am a qualified Counsellor, Couple Counsellor, EMDR practitioner, CRM therapist,Clinical Hypnotherapist, Psychologist and Pedagogue (Science of Education) with extensive experience, including but not limited to, working with adults and young people in areas such as childhood sexual abuse, rape and any type of sexual or domestic abuse, including ritual abuse and sexual exploitation; Also bereavement, anxiety, depression, relationship issues, (including infidelity and intimacy difficulties), addiction, self-harm, self-esteem, etc. Specialised in complex trauma and DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder). Sandra will accompany you on your journey to empowerment, growth, self discovery and self understanding through Pluralistic counselling, an approach that integrates different theories and strategies from Person Center, CBT, Psychodinamic, Narrative therapy to a wide variety of approaches, adapting and working in collaboration with you. Sandra can also offer, CRM, Creative therapies, Clinical Hypnotherapy, Animal Assisted Therapy, Outdoors therapy, Life Coaching and Reiki.

09/04/2026

Integration is not about becoming perfect.
It is about becoming honest
with the full range
of who you are.
Not just the parts
that feel acceptable —
but the ones
that feel uncomfortable
to acknowledge.
Every time you hide
a genuine reaction,
a quiet message is sent inward:
“This part of me
is not allowed to belong.”
Over time,
this creates distance
between who you are
and who you present.
Authenticity is not about saying everything.
It is about recognising everything.
Because healing begins
when nothing inside you
is permanently excluded.
365 ther**eutic insights for 2026 — Day 99
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08/04/2026

Many people believe
change happens through pressure,
criticism,
or force.
But psychologically,
rejection does not soften behavior —
it hardens it.
What feels unwanted
becomes defensive.
What feels accepted
becomes safer.
And safety
is what allows change
to happen without fear.
The parts of you
that react the most strongly
are often the ones
that have received
the least kindness.
Not indulgence.
Not avoidance.
But understanding.
Because love, in inner work,
is not weakness —
it is regulation.
365 ther**eutic insights for 2026 — Day 98
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07/04/2026

Emotional numbing is often misunderstood.
It does not remove pain —
it reduces sensitivity to emotion.
And because emotions share the same system,
when pain is suppressed,
joy is often muted as well.
Many people notice this
as a quiet loss of vitality.
Life feels flatter.
Less vivid.
Less connected.
Learning to feel safely
is not about forcing emotion —
it is about expanding your capacity
to stay present with it.
365 ther**eutic insights for 2026 — Day 97
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06/04/2026

Many people judge themselves
based on their intentions.
But change does not happen
at the level of intention alone.
It happens
at the level of patterns.
Triggers activate emotional memory
faster than conscious thought.
That’s why reactions repeat
even when you truly want to do differently.
Awareness does not immediately stop a pattern —
but it creates the space
where change becomes possible.
365 ther**eutic insights for 2026 — Day 96
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05/04/2026

Shadow work is not about fixing yourself.
It’s about becoming aware of the parts of you that had to stay hidden.
This 8-week shadow work programme uses creative expression as a bridge —
through masks, clay, colour, writing, and symbolic work.
Not to create art.
But to create contact.
If you're curious about joining future groups, you're welcome to message me privately for details.
My email is contact@bestyoutherapies.com
I would love to hear from you!
❤️
Sandra




05/04/2026

Self-sabotage is rarely random.
Many behaviors that look destructive
are attempts to stay safe.
Safe from shame.
Safe from failure.
Safe from rejection.
Safe from pressure.
The problem is that
what once protected you
may now be limiting you.
Understanding the fear beneath the behavior
is often the first step
toward real change.
365 ther**eutic insights for 2026 — Day 95
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04/04/2026

Many people approach healing
as if something inside them is broken.
But much of what we struggle with
was once a way to survive.
Integration does not mean approving every reaction.
It means recognising the parts of yourself
that formed for protection
and allowing them to belong.
What belongs
does not need to shout
to be heard.
Healing often begins
not when we remove parts of ourselves,
but when we stop abandoning them.
365 ther**eutic insights for 2026 — Day 94
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03/04/2026

Envy is rarely spoken about openly.
Not because it is uncommon —
but because it feels uncomfortable to admit.
Yet envy often carries information.
It can point toward qualities
we recognise,
admire,
or sense are possible for us.
Not something to copy.
Not something to resent.
Something to explore.
Sometimes what we envy
is not the person —
but the permission
they seem to have.
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02/04/2026

Power is not domination.
It is the ability
to choose,
to speak,
to set limits,
and to honour what matters to you.
When power is repeatedly silenced,
it does not disappear.
It often returns
as resentment
or control.
Resentment is not just anger.
It is anger
that never had permission
to be expressed clearly.
Reclaiming power
rarely begins with big changes.
It begins
with small choices
made consciously.
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01/04/2026

Shame is not just guilt.
Guilt says:
“I did something wrong.”
Shame says:
“There is something wrong with me.”
And that belief
can shape identity, relationships,
and how visible we allow ourselves to be.
Shame thrives in silence
because silence protects it.
But understanding
begins to loosen its grip.
Not through exposure.
Not through pressure.
Through compassion.
Through language.
Through safe connection.
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31/03/2026

What we suppress
does not disappear.
It changes form.
Unspoken anger
can become control.
Unacknowledged grief
can become distance.
Denied fear
can become perfectionism.
Hidden shame
can become self-attack.
Not because something is wrong with you —
but because what is not faced
still looks for expression.
Facing truth does not mean
acting on every feeling.
It means allowing honesty
to replace avoidance.
And sometimes,
the moment we name the truth
is the moment it loses
some of its grip on us.
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30/03/2026

What we avoid inside ourselves
rarely disappears.
It waits.
In reactions that feel too strong.
In patterns that repeat.
In emotions that seem to arrive without warning.
The shadow feels frightening
when it remains unseen.
But awareness changes the relationship.
A reaction becomes information.
A pattern becomes history.
An emotion becomes a message.
Shadow work does not begin with fixing.
It begins with noticing.
And sometimes,
the moment we name what we feel
is the moment it stops feeling like a monster.
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