Elements Therapies

03/10/2024

Interesting facts:
If we were mushrooms our thoughts & feelings could be seen as the Mycel.
Be your best mushroom self and uncover your Mycel in the therapy room 🗣️ 🧠 🍄‍🟫



If you cultivate a mushroom in a petri bowl on agar, its actual “shape” becomes visible. The essential part of a mushroom, the Mycel, is usually hidden from our eye. What we perceive as a “mushroom” is only its transient fruit body.

The mushroom's main body is the mycelium, a network of thread-like structures called hyphae, which live underground or within the substrate (like wood or soil). The mycelium is the organism's true form and is typically hidden from view.

When you grow mycelium on an agar plate in a petri dish, its network becomes visible as it spreads across the medium. What we commonly recognize as a "mushroom" is actually just the fruiting body, which the mycelium produces to release spores for reproduction. This fruit body is temporary and only appears when conditions are right, while the mycelium can persist for years.

01/10/2024

I do believe that we live in a world that is often too afraid to make the next step and I would say “just do it, go for it, Jump in!”
We have all these sayings ‘look before you leap, count your eggs - don’t put them all in one basket’ I’m like LEAP, put all your eggs in one basket because that is living, that is really life - taking the risks.
I always felt that if I do it and I fail, at least I’ve tried, at least I’ve given it a go and I won’t live my life regretting not having gone through it...life is short, life is precious, pursue your dreams, do the things you want to do because otherwise you won’t have done it, time is short.
I would just encourage anyone who has a dream to just go for it, you never know what will happen. You may fail, you may succeed but at least you will have done it.

Cara from John O Groats

12/08/2024

Evening!
Enjoying the sunshine? We’ve had a fair bit in Brighouse recently it’s YUMMY! 😋

Anyway just a brief post to explain to you about our regular supervision sessions as counsellors.

At he beginning of your professional relationship with a counsellor you’ll receive a written agreement that outlines and highlights what we offer as therapists.
Within that agreement there’ll be a brief mention/explanation of our monthly supervision.

As counsellors we undertake supervision to ensure we are working ethically, within our limits and with your best interests at the forefront of our work.

For us it’s a FANTASTIC experience and helps us grow both professionally and personally.

We’ve included an infographic for you to offer more information.
All our supervision sessions are confidential, keeping our clients anonymous AND performed by trained and experienced BACP registered supervisors.

Just an FYI so you know you are getting the very best of your therapist at Elements Therapies ☺️

08/08/2024

POV: Self acceptance brings acceptance of others. It’s a much more content way of living. As told by Fearne Cotton.

Learning to accept you, as you, is what we work with in the therapy room.
It’s liberating, empowering and all round less stressful than kicking the s**t out of yourself via your internal monologue.

Learn to love you and the rest just falls into place(ish) 🤍🤍🤍

08/08/2024

Elements Therapies are based in Brighouse.

We offer Face to face, online, walk talk and creative therapy sessions. Sessions are available weekly or fortnightly with some of our counsellors offering monthly or ad hoc sessions if required.

All our counsellors work confidentially at your pace with availability to suit where possible.
Our therapy rooms are accessible and discreet yet comfortable and bright.

We all have lived experience of counselling and trained to high standards but we are down to earth, real, friendly and professional.

Whatever life throws at you we are here to offer support through the situation, helping you navigate the outcome you feel you need.

Scan the QR code to visit our website and learn more!

19/07/2024

‘Accountability refers to a situation in which someone who a responsible for things that happen and can give a satisfactory reason for them’

This means taking responsibility for your actions and being accountable for your behaviours.

This does not mean beating yourself up and piling on guilt, blame and shame.

Exploring who you are in therapy can really help with understanding accountability & responsibility without kicking the 💩 out of yourself.

Our Qualified, insured, BACP registered and all round good egg 🍳 counsellors are available to help you navigate life’s difficulties; for more information please visit our website….🖤

Elementstherapies.co.uk

28/06/2024

Meet Maxine one of Elements Therapies qualified counsellors. Maxine offers availability on Tuesdays and Thursday at the moment.
Please visit the website or message via Facebook to get in touch…

About Maxine:


Hi, I am Maxine, a qualified Person Centered Counsellor, and a huge people person by nature.
At times life can challenge us in ways we never expected, and we can find ourselves feeling overloaded, lost and sometimes very alone.
This load can become increasingly heavy making it difficult to share, with even our most trusted and loved ones. And this is where I hope I can be of help to you in those dark moments.
We are all individuals with our own unique way of viewing and experiencing life. I will endeavour to walk alongside my clients and view their world through their eyes and from their perspective. In doing so, this will offer me insight where hopefully I will begin to really sense and understand my clients enough to be able to support you in unpacking that load.
To be listened to and truly heard rarely happens but when it does, it can have a profound impact in offering clarity, to what may have felt to be a hopeless and debilitating state.


My aim is always to build trust and respect within counselling sessions, so that hopefully clients will feel able to share what may have brought them to counselling. I am not here to offer advice, direction or pass judgement, but instead to have the opportunity to assist then in finding clarity, and in doing so, join my clients in discovering their own exceptional pathway to self empowerment.

Reaching out for help, and then finding the right person can feel frightening, but at the same time it could prove extremely liberating. So don’t be afraid to make that initial contact with me, with no obligation, and let’s discover if we can work together.

Maxine
Elementstherapies.co.uk

15/05/2024

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01/03/2024

Today is self injury awareness day.

Self injury can be for many reasons and not at just the teenage stage of life.
Social media has allowed self-injury into the mainstream so let’s talk about it (this I NOT promoting it).
Self injury can be seen as a way to feel pain physically as a distraction from internal feelings or thoughts of distress. It may be an influenced or learnt behaviour.

SH comes in many forms and may not always be obvious. Help is out there for the injured and those affected by self injury.

Elements Therapies are based in Brighouse West Yorkshire but close to Bradford which hosts a fantastic charity called scuff. Click the link below for further info…

As coined by BT ‘it’s good to talk’ - when you are ready, in your own time. 🧡

How can SCUFF help you? We fund tattoo cover ups for self harm scarring and we provide training and support for self harmers and those supporting self harmers.

08/02/2024

Guilt, ever felt it? Especially as a parent but even more so as a female? Take a read, does this resonate for you?

What is guilt? As the definition below suggests, guilt is a feeling:Guilt: "a...