Caroline Toshack - Supporting Minds & Bodies

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Caroline Toshack - Supporting Minds & Bodies

I’m a counsellor in Midlothian, supporting people to improve their relationship with food and body, including eating disorders.

I also run group workshops combining movement & reflective practices to help you tune in to your needs & feel more in control.

20/09/2025

A couple of years ago I ran a series of 3 sessions over winter called Wintering Well.

I loved running them and got great feedback from those who attended. I’ve been wanting to expand that theme since, offering space to pause, reflect and reconnect that runs in line with where we are seasonally.

Here it is!
THE SEASONAL SESSIONS
And they start next month!

To start us off I’m holding a workshop the day before the clocks go back as a pause to mark the shift into longer evenings.

🍁 The Seasonal Session October: Clocks go Back

The turning of the clocks can feel small, but it often has a real effect on our bodies and moods. Shorter days and darker evenings can bring tiredness, low energy, and a dip in outlook. When we notice this, and prepare for it, we can soften the impact — making small, conscious choices that support us. Choosing light when we can. Getting outdoors in the mornings. Creating small rituals that lift and sustain us through the darker months.

This workshop is a chance to do just that: to take time before the shift happens, to pause, and to tend to yourself.

Over 90 minutes together we’ll:
🍂 Practical wellbeing tips to adjust to the clock change
🍂 Gentle yoga and movemnt to ease body and mind
🍂 Seasonal reflective prompts to reflect on, and prepare for, the shift into wintertime

Think of it as a seasonal reset — not about doing more, but about finding steadiness and making space for yourself before winter arrives.

📅 Saturday 25 October
🕝 2:30–4:00pm
📍 Balanced Fitness, Penicuik EH26 8 HR
💸 £20

Booking link in bio

20/09/2025

Hiya 👋

Have had a wee change of page name on here to make it a bit more reflective of what I do.

Have felt for ages that this page has been neither one thing or the other. It’s not really representative of my counselling work, and not really showing the things that I also do outside of those individual sessions - like group sessions, or therapist CPD training.

Plus I’ve been guilty of doing something that is the very thing I don’t like and don’t advocate for - I’ve been trying to wrench myself into some kind of box that makes it easy for people to understand what I do! 🙄🙄

No wonder I’ve not really wanted to come on and share anything!!!

So, now I’ve got over caring if what I do is understandable or fits together neatly, and I’m just getting on with things instead…. Which meant that ‘Supporting Minds & Bodies’ felt far more ‘me’.

It’s what I do.

In counselling I’m not just supporting minds, but I’m aware that we are human bodies with feelings and physical responses. I’m never just a ‘talking’ counsellor - but someone who works with the whole person and recognising what isn’t’ or can’t be said.

I’m still a movement therapist - even if I don’t ‘teach’ specific movement practices anymore. Or at least not on a regular basis. It’s threaded through everything that I do because movement is a language of it’s own and a connective practice. It lets us connect with ourselves, others and the environment around us.

And in addition to individual work I’m also starting to run group workshops again - in-person and online. These fuse movement, mental health and wellbeing practices and brings people together in community.

I have a whole host of group work in the pipeline. Some is already on the go.
Movement & Meaning runs online once a month.
And I’m getting ready to tell you about soem in-person workshops in Midlothian: The Seasonal Sessions.

So lots happening - all about supporting minds and bodies.

Looking forward to telling you more on here 😁

16/09/2025

This Thursday 5:30pm online - some time to move, and explore what it means and feels like to come back to your centre.

Booking link: https://bookwhen.com/carolinetoshack/e/ev-sy6z-20250918173000

04/09/2025

It’s September and the theme for the second of the Movement & Meaning sessions is:

🧭 CENTERING

📍Live online: Thursday 18th September, 5:30 - 6:30pm (or get the recording)

Centering is the act of returning to yourself. In movement its the physical experince of balnce and alignment. Emotionallly, it’s what helps you orientate, recalibrate or gather your energy when life feels pulled in all directions.

- Where do you feel centered?
- What pulls you off balance?
- And how do you return?

Through guided movement, breath and awareness we’ll explore finding our physical centre: your core, your axis, your alignment. And to notice how that connects to a sense of emotinal steadiness.

We’ll play with moving from your centre, what balance feels like in motion, and returnng to yourself when pulled in different directions.

This is not about standing still or being perfectly aligned - but about noticing what brings you back and how returning to centre might support clarity, confidence and calm.

no experience of any specific movement practices needed - just yourself, curiosity and comfy clothes.

Join this single session: £10

or join the remaining 3 sessions in the series for £26

🔗 Booking link in comments

✉️ or DM me if you want to ask me anything

04/09/2025

THE MOVEMENT & MEANING SERIES!

Well, I’m just a little bit excited about bringing this to life and sharing it just now.

60 minute online movement explorations

One a month - August to November

Each session has a theme to explore though gentle
guided movement, noticing our patterns, stories and felt experience.

Because movement isn’t just physical - it reflects how we meet and move though the world. How we respond with movement tells us something about how we relate to ourselves, others and the world around us.

These sessions aren’t about getting the movements ‘right’ but about exploring how they feel in your body and how different they can feel with just the odd little turn of phrase or perspective.

We’re not looking to fix or improve - but to notice, play and gain insight.

‘Movement & Meaning’ is not quite yoga, not quite pilates, not quite mobility, not quite core, not quite stability, not quite breathing practice… But it’s also a little bit of each of them.

In all honesty, it’s a mish mash of my 28 years of being a movement practitioner and the numerous, various practices that I’ve trained in, experienced and explored over that time.

We may play with a shape that’s kinda like a ‘yoga pose’ or a ‘pilates move’ or find some standing stability - and explore what it’s like to feel it when we add a different perspective or dynamic to it. Maybe it helps you feel more grounded, centered, stable…..? (Depending on our theme of the session)

🌿 I’ll guide us through some movement and there will be pauses to privately reflect and check in.
It’ll be gentle and mindful.
You don’t have to have previous experience of yoga, Pilates etc.

📍All are online. You can join live, or get the recording which will be available for 7 days.
You can join with camera on or off.
Join a single session or come for the series of 4.

⏱️ WHEN - each session is a Thursday at 5:30 - 6:30pm

📆 DATES:
AUGUST 28th - GROUNDING
SEPTEMBER 18th - CENTERING
OCTOBER 16th - STABILITY
NOVEMBER 20th - INITIATION

£10 each or £35 for the series of 4.

🔗 Booking link in bio

Feel free to DM me any questions

💕💕💕

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

Louis Braille Way
Gorebridge
EH234LD

Telephone

+447960445557

Website

http://www.carolinetoshackcounselling.com/

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