The Therapy Suite

14/04/2026

Everyone is welcome to join us this Tuesday evening.

While this meeting is especially here for parents, family members and friends, it is open to anyone affected by ketamine in any way — whether personally, through someone you love, or because you are trying to better understand and support.

This is a safe, supportive space. There is no pressure to speak. You can come along just to listen, connect, and know you are not alone.

Tuesday evening
7:30pm – 8:30pm

West Lancs Ketamine Awareness & Support ❤️🖤

Please share with anyone who may need us.

14/04/2026

A special mention to Websites and Print, South Shields for always doing a great job for all of my printing (and lots of it 🤪) and for always being on hand to update my website! Gavin Jackson

Websites and Print are an innovative, local website design, print, and graphic design company based in South Shields, near Newcastle upon Tyne.

14/04/2026

14/04/2026

Tomorrow night at Jarrow Mindset 💛✨

6pm - no judgement 💛 Just support 💛

If you or a loved on is struggling with Ketamine addiction, it would be great to have you at our group where you can feel connected to others experiencing the same thing 💛
NO JUDGEMENT
Kettle will be on

14/04/2026

Gambling addiction is often misunderstood because there’s no substance involved, but it is just as powerful.

I’m proud to be working alongside Impact Inspire, created by Reece Casey, who has lived through gambling addiction himself and now uses his experience to raise awareness and support others. That lived experience brings a level of understanding you can’t teach.

What many people don’t realise is that gambling is a behavioural addiction, but it affects the brain in very similar ways to drugs or alcohol. Each bet, each win (and even near-miss), triggers the brain’s reward system, releasing dopamine, the same chemical linked to pleasure and reinforcement. Over time, the brain starts to crave that feeling, not the outcome.

This is how it escalates:
✨ What starts as entertainment becomes a habit
✨ The habit becomes a compulsion
✨The compulsion becomes something that feels impossible to stop

If we want to really support people, we need to understand that addiction isn’t always visible, and it isn’t always about substances.

13/04/2026

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13/04/2026

There’s a big difference between being heard and being understood ✨

You can sit in a room, speak your truth, explain how you feel and still walk away feeling completely alone.

Because being heard is about words.
Being understood is about connection 🤍

It’s the moment someone doesn’t just listen to you, but gets you.

No fixing. No interrupting. No judgement.

So many people go through life never truly feeling understood.

In counselling, my aim is to understand.

Ask yourself, when was the last time you felt truly understood? ✨🤍

I believe in empowering individuals to better understand themselves, help build resilience and work towards personal growth and healing.

12/04/2026

🌿I had quite a lot of messages about the recent post I put up about friendships, which made me think that this happens more than we like to admit ✨

Not all friendships are safe just because they’ve lasted a long time 🕰️

They celebrate you in public but compete with you in private! 😳

𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒎𝒊𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒎𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒔, 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒈𝒐𝒂𝒍𝒔, 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒔, 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒓 𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒉….𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆’𝒔 𝒂𝒏 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒍𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏’𝒕 𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒆.

These are the frienemies.
The friendships that look fine on the surface but feel heavy underneath.

Toxic friendships aren’t always loud or dramatic.
Sometimes they’re subtle:
🚩Backhanded compliments
🚩Quiet comparisons
🚩Lack of genuine support
🚩Feeling drained after every interaction
🚩A sense that you’re being watched, not truly seen

When you start growing and stepping into something new, not everyone around you will celebrate that.

Some will feel threatened ☀️

𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐮𝐩 🏃🏼‍♂️

But friendship isn’t supposed to feel like competition.

Healthy friendships feel safe, steady, and supportive.

Protect your energy ✨🤍

Not everyone who stands next to you is standing with you.

I believe in empowering individuals to better understand themselves, help build resilience and work towards personal growth and healing.

12/04/2026

Becoming a counsellor isn’t just a career choice that you wake up one day and decide on.

It’s not just a course, a qualification or a title you add to your name.

It’s a commitment to sit with people in their darkest moments and not look away!

To hear things that are heavy, painful, and sometimes hard to hold, and still stay grounded.

To do your own deep, uncomfortable work so you don’t bring your stuff into someone else’s space.

This path asks for more than knowledge. It asks for self-awareness, emotional resilience, and the ability to be present without needing to fix ✨

12/04/2026

Super excited to be delivering this in Leeds this week with Hope and Thrive Therapy 🤍✨

Hope and Thrive Therapyand The Therapy Suite are looking forward to travelling to Leeds this Wednesday to host our Renewal Day at Our Father’s House.

These days are designed to create a safe, supportive space for individuals to pause, reflect, and engage in meaningful therapeutic work. Through guided sessions, we will be exploring areas such as emotional wellbeing, healing from past experiences, addictions and developing healthier patterns moving forward.

Our aim is to provide a balanced environment that combines professional therapeutic approaches with compassion, understanding, and practical tools that can be taken away and applied in everyday life.

Whether someone is at the beginning of their journey or further along, Renewal Days offer an opportunity to reset, refocus, and take positive steps forward.

We’re really looking forward to working with everyone attending.

11/04/2026

I attended some amazing addiction training recently and the tutor advised:

‘𝐺𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑠 𝑙𝑜𝑎𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑢𝑛, 𝑒𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑝𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑔𝑒𝑟’

Some people are born with a higher vulnerability, how their brain responds to reward, stress, and coping is different. That’s the loaded gun.

But addiction doesn’t happen in a void.

Trauma. Stress. Loss. Peer pressure. What we grow up around. What we learn to cope with.

That’s what pulls the trigger.

It’s why two people can use the same substance and have completely different outcomes. It’s not weakness. It’s not lack of willpower.

It’s a mix of biology and life experience.

And while we can’t change where we started, we can change what happens next.

Understanding is about removing shame and creating space for real recovery ❤️‍🩹