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Counsellor / Psychotherapist
Specialism in disordered eating, eating disorders and body image issues
In-person or online sessions
I am neuro-affirmative and work with people 18+

06/05/2025

🪞BREAK THE NARRATIVE: RECLAIM YOURBODY IMAGE STORY🪞

A 90 minute online workshop where we’ll set a foundation for a healthier relationship with your body.
Tuesday 27th May
5:30 - 7:00pm
Online
£20.

Honestly, I couldn’t be happier to be running this workshop. Body image is something so personal to us and a negative body image can run a noisy critical internal narrative. It seems that so many people ‘put up with it’ or keep some proportion of life on hold until they feel better about themself.

But what I’ve actually found is that reshaping the story you hold about our body is where things start to unstick and feel better.

So, I’m facilitating this supportive and nurturing space for you to to explore, challenge and begin to reshape the story you hold about your body.

We’ll consider where some of our self critical narratives might arise from, challenge cultural and societal pressures and other perspectives that may influence how you feel about our body?

And I’ll help you to articulate a kinder and more compassionate dialogue with your body that helps you feel more at ease in your skin.

During our time together we’ll
- define body image
- explore what shapes it
- consider how this impacts on the quality of our thoughts and feelings
- connect mindfully with our body to find a new, more empowering, narrative
- embody this more positive body image story

I would love for you to join me.

We meeting online on Tuesday 27th May from 5:30 - 7pm. I’m keeping the group to a maximum of 10 and it won’t be recorded so that the space is contained and held only for those attending.

You can sign up here:
https://bookwhen.com/initialmeeting/e/ev-seps-20250527173000

Feel free to ask me about it if you have any questions.

(If you’d like to attend and can’t make this date or time then let me know so I can consider alternatives for next time.)

27/03/2025

Just here to say that fortnightly therapy sessions are a thing!

They can be a good option where
extra time between sessions is helpful for processing or to action change. Or it might allow for a regular commitment to therapy over a longer period of time. Or fit better with working patterns.

I’ve got some availability for fortnightly sessions at the moment on a Monday or Thursday afternoon.

Feel free to get in touch if you want to chat about that.

Www.carolinetoshack.com

03/03/2025

Hi, lots of people have been telling me that they are craving some space and time for themself. To have a breather from 'stuff' to connect back in with themself.
Sometimes its difficult to give ourselves permission to do so, but when we do we feel so much better.

I’ve created this online monthly group space as a 'nook' away from the noise and overwhelm. It's a place to come away from pressures and expectations, and feelings of 'should' to find nourishment, clarity and reset.

In this quiet space I'll guide you through some gentle practices:
🌱breath
🌱stretch or very simple movement
🌱journal prompts
🌱Some pause for reflection & perspective

Nothing will be complicated or overly fancy. It’s simply a space to come as you are, take what you need and leave behind what you don't. And leave feeling refreshed and restored.

You can join with camera on or off. There might be some check ins on the chat, but you won’t be asked to share.

Each month has a theme and the session will be created around that.
The theme this month is CONNECTION.

Wednesday 26th March
7:15-8:30pm
Online
£10

Booking link in comments.

And if you have any questions, please just ask me.

25/02/2025

Hi everyone,

I've been away from Facebook for a while (a year actually!). It was good to have the break and it's also been nice to dip back in and out recently.

I thought I'd ease myself back into posting by sharing a wee reintroduction of who I am and what I'm up to these days.

So.... hi, I'm Caroline! 👋

I'm a counsellor / psychotherapist based in Gorebridge, Midlothian in Scotland.

I GENUINELY love the work that I do.

I started working with individuals and their well-being almost 25 years ago in fitness and sport. Some of you may know me from my run coaching days, or teaching pilates or yoga and wonder what led to me becoming a counsellor.

What I always loved most about working with people, and settled into easiest and most authentically, was holding stories, helping them to be at ease in their self, and supporting their emotional stability.

Over the years as I worked on my own physical and emotional challenges and I felt the personal benefit of therapeutic movement practices and psychotherapy, I wanted to understand and learn and then share this with others. My work organically became more therapeutic, supporting chronic pain, fatigue or illness and eventually more psychotherapeutic, supporting anxiety, trauma, and mental health issues.

There was an inevitability that I’d become a counsellor!

About 10 years ago, people started to come to me after I opened up about my own challenges with, and recovery from, anorexia, bulimia and exercise addiction. It became clear to me that helping people with disordered eating was my passion work and I went on do various specialised training courses. It is what ultimately led me to train as a psychotherapist. I do believe that having a lived experience offers a unique perspective and understanding.

I like to think I have a specialism, rather than a niche - as I don’t just work with these issues.
That’s because people are multifaceted and not a list of issues or labels.
And I don’t like working within boxes.
Anyone who knows me will tell you that!

I’m a psychotherapist, yes, but I’m also:
🧘🏻‍♀️a yoga teacher
👣 somatic movement practitioner
💭 mindfulness teacher
⭕️ coach
🏃🏻‍♀️ ex-athlete
🙃 neurodivergent

And all of that integrates into how I work.

And of course, let's not forget that I’m a human being too! 💕

What else? Here are some random things about me:
☔️ I love the rain
🌿 I name all my plants
🚴‍♀️ 🏃‍♀️I’m a double European Champion in duathlon (run,bike, run)
🌻 I have 3 tattoos
🧀I don’t like any cheeses other than mild cheddar and mozzarella 🤢
🥛 I gag when I see people drink milk 🫣

I'm not the only one who names there plants am I....??? 🫤

Address

Gorebridge

Telephone

+447960445557

Website

http://www.carolinetoshackcounselling.com/

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