Optima Health Services

Optima Health Services I'm Jo Oxley, a BACP Accredited Psychotherapist/Counsellor with over a decade of experience.

Empowering Counsellors and Psychotherapists with Award Winning CPCAB Level 5 and Level 7 ‘Attachment Training’ | CPD Attachment Based Retreats for Therapists | Couples Therapy Retreats to Pause, Reflect and Reconnect I specialise in Attachment Psychotherapy, addressing relational issues, postnatal depression, and more. Offering both individual and couples counselling, I provide a safe, confidentia

l space for your healing journey. Supporting your mental well-being with compassionate and professional care. 🌟

Specialising in individual and couples counselling, including attachment therapy, postnatal depression, and relational challenges. 🌿
BACP Accredited Psychotherapist with over 10 years of experience. 💬

📞 07535 295 556 | ✉️ jo.oxley@optimahealthservices.co.uk
💻 www.optimahealthservices.co.uk

Your journey to healing starts here. 💙

There’s something especially timely about this conversation.In his new book 'Same Time Next Week' Josh offers a compassi...
23/04/2026

There’s something especially timely about this conversation.

In his new book 'Same Time Next Week' Josh offers a compassionate, honest and accessible exploration of anxiety in modern life, how it develops, what keeps it going, and how we might begin to relate to it differently.

At a time when many people are turning to AI before reaching for another person, this conversation brings us back to relationships, complexity, and the beautifully unfinished nature of being human.

If you loved 'And How Does That Make You Feel', this is one not to miss.

Join us for a thoughtful evening with Josh and Georgina, who also brings her attachment-informed reflections on what anxiety can reveal about the deeper patterns shaping how we cope.

Book via the link in our bio or comment below. You can submit a question for Josh!

Opt in on the booking page to receive a free CPD Certificate, Reflection Pack, and webinar recording after the event.

Looking Ahead… This One MattersHead to Online Events, with Uruj & Georgina leading the session:✨ Attachment and Power in...
22/04/2026

Looking Ahead… This One Matters

Head to Online Events, with Uruj & Georgina leading the session:

✨ Attachment and Power in Supervision: Rethinking the Functional Model
📅 29th April 2026
⏰ 1:00-2:00 PM

Proctor’s model gives us structure…
But supervision doesn’t happen in a vacuum.

Power, identity, culture, and context all shape how support, challenge, and accountability are experienced in the room.

In this thoughtful session, Uruj & Georgina invite us to look again at the formative, normative, and restorative functions - this time through an attachment-informed and EDI-aware lens.

Together, we’ll explore:
✨ How attachment and identity intersect in supervision
✨ The impact of power and systemic context on relational safety
✨ How to offer a secure base that is both emotionally containing and culturally responsive

Because what feels supportive to one supervisee… may feel exposing to another.

If you want to bring more depth, awareness, and sensitivity into your supervisory work, this is not one to miss.

We’d love to see you there 💬

We’re incredibly proud to be welcoming Linda Cundy as guest teacher for our retreat 🌿✨ Why learn with Linda?• Decades of...
22/04/2026

We’re incredibly proud to be welcoming Linda Cundy as guest teacher for our retreat 🌿

✨ Why learn with Linda?

• Decades of clinical experience in attachment-based psychotherapy
• Renowned trainer and supervisor within the field
• Editor and contributor to key attachment-focused texts
• Her work has influenced therapists across the UK and internationally
• Known for translating complex theory into clear, practical insight

Linda brings a rare combination of depth, clarity, and real-world application - helping therapists not just understand attachment, but work with it.

During the retreat, she’ll guide you to:
• Deepen your attachment-informed lens
• Explore your own attachment as a therapist
• Integrate this understanding into your client work

✨ A unique opportunity to learn from her in a small, reflective, and relational space.

📅 26–27 June
📍 The Odney Club, Berkshire
🔗 Link in comments

New episode Attachment and Trauma in therapy: How Trauma and Attachment Show Up in the Counselling Room releases tonight...
21/04/2026

New episode Attachment and Trauma in therapy: How Trauma and Attachment Show Up in the Counselling Room releases tonight at 7 PM!

Trauma in the counselling room is not always about one big event. Sometimes it is about what did not happen: the safety, attunement, and emotional regulation that were missing when they were most needed.

In this episode, Darren is joined by Gav, counsellor, tutor, and attachment-based psychotherapist, to explore how trauma and attachment are often inseparable in practice.

We explore:

✨ What attachment trauma can look like in adulthood
✨ Secure, anxious, avoidant, and disorganised attachment
✨ Why clients can move towards closeness and then pull away
✨ How trust is built slowly in attachment-informed therapy
✨ Countertransference, burnout, and therapist self-awareness
✨ How to think about contact between sessions through an attachment lens

This is a grounded, clinically useful conversation for counsellors in training, newly qualified therapists, and experienced practitioners wanting to deepen their attachment-informed work.

Trauma and attachment are so often woven together in therapy.This episode explores some of the most common questions pra...
20/04/2026

Trauma and attachment are so often woven together in therapy.

This episode explores some of the most common questions practitioners ask - from how attachment wounds shape adult relationships to how disorganised attachment can show up in the therapy room.

If this has sparked your curiosity and you’d like to learn more, we’re exploring this further on our podcast tomorrow at 7 PM.

And if you’re ready to go deeper, our Level 5 course offers a rich, attachment-informed learning experience to really embed this into your practice.

🔗 Link to our website in comments

Would love to have you join us ✨

Join Jo and Darren for their upcoming Online Event:✨ Ethical Self-Care: An Attachment-Informed Approach📅 27th April 2026...
19/04/2026

Join Jo and Darren for their upcoming Online Event:

✨ Ethical Self-Care: An Attachment-Informed Approach
📅 27th April 2026
⏰ 1:00-2:00 PM

This isn’t about bubble baths or quick fixes…
It’s about how we sustain ourselves in the work.

In this one-hour experiential session, you’ll be invited to step gently out of role and into your own nervous system - exploring self-care as an ethical responsibility, not an afterthought.

Expect:
✨ Reflection and gentle somatic awareness
✨ A deeper look at burnout and professional isolation
✨ Practical, attachment-informed ways to strengthen your secure base

And perhaps… a breath you didn’t realise you were holding.

If you care deeply about your clients and want to protect the longevity of your practice, this space is for you.

We’d love to see you there 💬

What will you leave with from this retreat? 🌿This isn’t just about listening - it’s about what actually stays with you.A...
16/04/2026

What will you leave with from this retreat? 🌿

This isn’t just about listening - it’s about what actually stays with you.

Across the two days, you’ll:
• Deepen your attachment-informed understanding of client work
• Strengthen your ability to reflect on your own responses in the therapeutic relationship
• Gain practical ways to apply theory directly into your sessions
• Experience learning that integrates both thinking and felt sense
• Develop greater awareness of relational dynamics—both yours and your clients’

Through a blend of teaching, discussion, reflection, and experiential work, the focus is simple:
✨ not overload - but integration

So you leave not just with ideas…
but with something that feels embedded in your practice.

📅 26–27 June
📍 The Odney Club, Berkshire
🔗 Link in comments

Don’t Miss This - Jo is leading a session with Online Events:✨ The Therapist’s Own Attachment: Who Holds the Secure Bas...
14/04/2026

Don’t Miss This - Jo is leading a session with Online Events:

✨ The Therapist’s Own Attachment: Who Holds the Secure Base?
📅 20th April 2026
⏰ 1:00-2:00 PM

We spend so much time attuning to our clients…
Tracking rupture and repair, holding regulation, and offering a secure base.

But how often do we pause and ask:
What’s happening in me?

This gentle, thought-provoking session invites you to turn the lens inward - exploring how your own attachment patterns may shape your presence, your responses, and your capacity to hold others.

Together, we’ll reflect on:
✨ The therapist’s attachment in the room
✨ The quiet pull towards over-functioning or depletion
✨ How to resource yourself - ethically and sustainably

This isn’t a lecture.
It’s a space to think, feel, and reflect.

If you’ve ever wondered “who holds the therapist?”… this is for you.

We’d love to see you there 💬

This retreat isn’t just about listening…It’s about experiencing, reflecting, and integrating 🌿Across the two days, you’l...
14/04/2026

This retreat isn’t just about listening…
It’s about experiencing, reflecting, and integrating 🌿

Across the two days, you’ll explore:
• Attachment-informed teaching
• Facilitated group discussion (in a safe, contained space)
• Reflective exercises
• Experiential work + guided sound bath
• Bringing theory directly into your client work

This isn’t about overload.
It’s about integration.

Space to think about your work…
To notice your responses…
And to leave with something that truly stays with you.

📅 26–27 June
📍 The Odney Club, Berkshire
🔗 Link in comments

Attachment and Disordered Eating in TherapyFood, Attachment Theory, Therapy & Relationships🎙️New episode released at 7PM...
14/04/2026

Attachment and Disordered Eating in Therapy
Food, Attachment Theory, Therapy & Relationships

🎙️New episode released at 7PM

What if food in therapy is not just about food?

In this episode of Attach Together, Darren and Jo Oxley explore how early feeding experiences, family dynamics and attachment patterns can shape a client’s relationship with food.

For many clients, food may carry meanings of comfort, reward, shame, control or emotional survival. This episode offers a thoughtful attachment-informed exploration of what may sit beneath disordered eating patterns in the therapy room.

In this episode:
• Why feeding is one of our earliest relational experiences
• How food can become a substitute attachment figure
• The link between comfort, soothing and disordered eating
• What family dinner-table memories may reveal clinically
• How to think about clients who eat during sessions

A thoughtful conversation for counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists and trainees wanting to deepen their attachment-informed practice.

Available wherever you listen to podcasts and find previous episodes on our website (link in comments).

Attachment and disordered eating often tell a deeper relational story than we might first assume.If this has sparked you...
13/04/2026

Attachment and disordered eating often tell a deeper relational story than we might first assume.

If this has sparked your curiosity and you’d like to explore it further, we’re unpacking this on the podcast tomorrow at 7 PM.

And if you’re ready to deepen your attachment-informed practice, our Level 5 course offers a rich learning experience to help you embed this work more fully in the therapy room.

🔗 Link to our website in comments

We’d love to have you join us ✨

What does the retreat actually look like? 🌿✨ Day 1Arrive, settle in, and shape the day your way.• Intention setting• Ref...
12/04/2026

What does the retreat actually look like? 🌿

✨ Day 1
Arrive, settle in, and shape the day your way.
• Intention setting
• Reflective workshop on conjecture
• Marketing session (grow your practice)
• Teaching from Linda Cundy
• Informal dinner + connection

✨ Day 2
A slower start, then:
• Working with the wounded child
• Creating a secure base in therapy
• Guided sound bath
• Integration into practice

All sessions are optional—this is your space to learn, reflect, or simply rest.

📅 26–27 June
📍 The Odney Club, Berkshire
🔗 Link in comments

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