Heart of Harrogate Counselling

06/12/2024

This is an incredible TEDx talk about depression.

🪴🍂 It'd be like having a green plant and all of a sudden the leaves start to turn brown. You wouldn't label that plant with 'Brown Leaf Disorder' and spray paint the leaves green.
You'd look at the root cause - How's the soil? Is it getting enough light? Or does it need more water? The brown leaf diagnosis would divert attention away from what's really going on.
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Joe Tudor

NOTE FROM TED: Please do not look to this talk for medical or mental health advice and seek professional help if you are struggling. This talk only represent...

28/01/2024

Emotional healing can be a challenging and life-changing experience. It is working towards a space where your suffering and the resulting thoughts, feelings and emotions don’t interfere with your present moments.

Healing involves acknowledging, allowing, expressing, processing, and may involve accepting painful life experiences; which is hard. It also might feel like some/all of the emotions of the infographic.

Emotional healing might involve challenging own beliefs and patterns of behaviour. It could mean working towards being a less self-critical, self-loathing, fragmented, you.

Heart of Harrogate Counselling can support you with this. 💜

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15/07/2023

Experiencing depression can be very difficult and sometimes every day can feel like a struggle. Taking time to look after yourself can help with how you feel day-to-day.

If your symptoms of depression are persisting then Heart of Harrogate Counselling can support you. 💙

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10/07/2023

Often we learn things that don't serve us well. Perhaps you're on this journey of unlearning (which can be difficult).

Heart of Harrogate Counselling can help you with this. 💜

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02/07/2023

It's ok to ask for help at any time – including if you're not sure if you've experienced trauma. 💙

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13/06/2023

Has your child faced difficulties this academic year? Do they need a mental health 'reset' ready for next year?

Perhaps your child or teen would benefit from having an independent professional providing them with a safe, confidential space to talk freely about their experiences, thoughts, and feelings?

With substantial therapeutic experience working with children and young people both in schools and in private practice, Heart of Harrogate Counselling is happy to be able to offer a 4 week summer holiday 'Mental Health Reset' for children and young people.

💜 A counselling session (50 mins) will take place weekly over a period of 4 weeks.

💜 Sessions are available across all days of the week throughout the period Monday 24th July to Friday 18th August 2023 inclusive, subject to availability.

💜 The 'Mental Health Summer Reset' fee is £180, which represents a saving compared to our regular counselling sessions with children and young people.

Contact helen@heartofharrogatecounselling.co.uk or 07960 081 168 for more details.

28/05/2023

Has your child faced difficulties this academic year? Do they need a mental health 'reset' ready for next year?

Perhaps your child or teen would benefit from having an independent professional providing them with a safe, confidential space to talk freely about their experiences, thoughts, and feelings?

With substantial therapeutic experience working with children and young people both in schools and in private practice, Heart of Harrogate Counselling is happy to be able to offer a 4 week summer holiday 'Mental Health Reset' for children and young people.

💜 Counselling sessions (50 mins) will take place weekly over a period of 4 weeks.

💜 Sessions are available across all days of the week throughout the period Monday 24th July to Friday 18th August 2023 inclusive, subject to availability.

💜 The 'Mental Health Summer Reset' fee is £180, which represents a saving compared to our regular counselling sessions with children and young people.

Contact helen@heartofharrogatecounselling.co.uk or 07960 081 168 for more details.

Counselling & psychotherapy for adults & children - in person in Harrogate and remotely UK wide.

01/02/2023

Stress is usually a reaction to mental or emotional pressure. It can begin as pressure from ourselves or others, and if you find you are no longer able to cope with this pressure; you start to feel stressed.

Stress is often related to feeling like you're losing control over something, but sometimes there's no obvious cause. It can leave you feeling like you want to escape a situation.

Taking breaks help you maintain your mental and physical health.🧡

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30/01/2023

I like this because it is normalising every day mental health.

Normalising our struggles with mental health empowers us to think and talk about our difficulties and to get the help needed. The message is that you're not alone in this...

But, it could also be perceived as: 'everyone else feels this way, too, so I should just get on with it'. No! Don't downplay your distress because you feel that you 'should be able to cope'. I'm pretty sure that you'd never downplay a friend's mental health struggles, so don't do it with your own.

Heart of Harrogate Counselling can support you. 💜

21/01/2023

We all have differing boundaries and they vary according to the context we're in ie. at work, with friends, in a relationship etc.

Are you clear of your expectations of self and others? Holding healthy boundaries might mean that you can say:

- Thank you for the offer but I can’t make it unfortunately.
- I can only stay for half an hour.
- I’m not comfortable discussing this.
- I need time to think about it. I will come back to you.
- I respect your opinion, but I don’t have to agree with you.
- This is my life, and these are my decisions.
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19/01/2023

The Cycle of Abuse (the image represents the abused) identifies what happens over and over again within abusive relationships. The length of time between each repetition can vary and it often shortens over time as the abuse escalates. Keep in mind that non-physical abuse tactics can (and mostly likely will) happen at any point during the cycle.

Abuse might involve:

- Insults, humiliation and/or name-calling
- Threats of harm, including sexual harm, or property destruction
- Attempts to control your behaviour - including financial control
- Sexual or physical violence
- Emotional manipulation
- Accusations of you of making them angry or blaming you for your “relationship problems.”

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15/01/2023

As humans, we have tens of thousands of thoughts a day and up to 80% are negative. We all have negative thoughts and they're not necessarily a problem in themselves.

But they are a problem if we believe them.

If you are struggling with spiralling negative thoughts and anxiety about them, or have feelings of low self-worth then Heart of Harrogate Counselling can help support you. 💙