The Therapy Suite

The Therapy Suite Supporting recovery, restoring hope.

https://thetherapysuite.uk/

A counsellor with a true passion for supporting people with all issues in life, particularly their journey of recovery from addiction.

16/02/2026

Iโ€™ve been to a group this morning and someone said โ€œfind your voice to inspire others to find theirsโ€.

๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ’›

15/02/2026

When a client apologises to me for their tearsโ€ฆ inside Iโ€™m thinking โ€˜you donโ€™t need to be sorryโ€™.

Your nervous system is doing exactly what it needs to do โค๏ธ

You never need to apologise for your tears with me ๐Ÿค

15/02/2026

๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ'๐˜€ ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—น๐˜† ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฑ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น ๐˜€๐˜‚๐—ณ๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด

You could call it industrialised distress

Depression
Anxiety disorders
Addiction
Personality pathology
Mental illness

These days upgraded with evidence-based protocols and trauma-informed language

The same lies in smarter packaging

๐—ฆ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐˜„๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚

you can't say nothing is wrong with people and believe in it all

Even evidence-based can become a ritual of control, privileging what can be measured over what can be met

Even trauma-informed can reduce living human beings to nervous systems requiring management

The research is clear on one thing, human beings adapt

Attachment science (Bowlby, 1969; Ainsworth, 1978) shows us that children organise themselves around connection

Trauma research (van der Kolk, 2014) shows the body reorganises around survival

Developmental neuroscience (Schore, 2012) demonstrates that early relational environments shape regulation capacity

None of that equals broken, It equals adaptation

But in modern systems, adaptation gets reclassified as disorder

Survival strategies become symptoms. Identity forms around diagnosis

Now we donโ€™t have a human responding to life...

๐—ช๐—ฒ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜

And once someone is a patient, there is something to treat

but

There is only one issue still..

๐——๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป

- Disconnection from feeling
- From relational safety
- From inner authority
- From self

Addiction is disconnection (Matรฉ, 2019)

Chronic depression often reflects collapsed attachment and learned helplessness (Seligman, 1975; Schore, 2012)

Anxiety reflects a nervous system organised around threat

Different expressions
- Same rupture

The surface content changes, relapse, burnout, panic attacks, indecision, compulsive work, emotional shutdown

๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—น๐˜†๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฑ๐˜†๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—ฐ ๐—ฑ๐—ผ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ปโ€™๐˜

A human being organised around survival rather than presence

Thatโ€™s why, at depth, coaching and therapy collapse into the same conversation

Not because symptoms are identical

But because the root is

And no amount of evidence-based technique resolves disconnection if the relational field itself remains clinical, hierarchical, or subtly pathologising

The nervous system doesnโ€™t heal through protocol alone. It heals in relationship (Schore, 2012)

So we can keep refining models

Or we can admit something simpler

No one is fundamentally broken, people have wellbeing within

Yet they are unknowingly organised around what happened

๐—”๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜„๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ธ ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜ ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐˜…๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด

๐—œ๐˜'๐˜€ ๐—ฎ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ช๐—ต๐—ผ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€

Our Ketamine Awareness and Support Group starts on Wednesday 25th February 2026 @ 6pm - 7.30pm. Jarrow Mindset, Ellison ...
15/02/2026

Our Ketamine Awareness and Support Group starts on Wednesday 25th February 2026 @ 6pm - 7.30pm.

Jarrow Mindset, Ellison Street, Jarrow.

Open to:

๐Ÿ’› Individuals currently experiencing addiction
๐Ÿ’› Those in recovery
๐Ÿ’› Family members, partners and loved ones

All are welcome in this confidential and supportive group ๐Ÿ’›

Iโ€™d really appreciate hitting the share button please to try to reach as many people as possible ๐Ÿ’›

14/02/2026

Signs Counselling Is Working (even if you donโ€™t feel better yet).

Youโ€™re noticing patterns you never saw before.
Youโ€™re questioning old beliefs.
Youโ€™re feeling emotions instead of numbing them.
Youโ€™re setting small boundaries.
Youโ€™re more aware of your needs.

Growth often feels uncomfortable before it feels empowering โœจ๐Ÿ’›

Have the conversation ๐Ÿ˜ขโค๏ธ
14/02/2026

Have the conversation ๐Ÿ˜ขโค๏ธ

Another success story โค๏ธRainbow ๐ŸŒˆ Promise, actually changing lives ๐Ÿค So proud of Hannah x
14/02/2026

Another success story โค๏ธ

Rainbow ๐ŸŒˆ Promise, actually changing lives ๐Ÿค

So proud of Hannah x

Rainbow ๐ŸŒˆ Promise Bingo today! Not sure Iโ€™ll be asked to do that again ๐Ÿ˜‚โค๏ธHave a great weekend all x
13/02/2026

Rainbow ๐ŸŒˆ Promise Bingo today!

Not sure Iโ€™ll be asked to do that again ๐Ÿ˜‚โค๏ธ

Have a great weekend all x

12/02/2026

I am so excited to announce that I am now fully qualified to carry out microneedling treatments!! โœจโœจโœจ

If this is something you will be interested in booking in for please drop me a message or comment below and Iโ€™ll get in touch once I have my full kit and am ready to open up my diary! ๐Ÿ’ซ๐Ÿ’ซ๐Ÿ’ซ

I will also be doing a full week of appointments where sessions will be significantly reduced in price so this is the ideal opportunity for you to try this treatment if you have not already done so or simply grab yourself a bargain!

Also keep your eyes peeled on my page for more in depth details of microneedling, what it entails, what sort of results you can expect etc!

Exciting times!! ๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿคฉ

Alix ๐Ÿฅฐ

12/02/2026

โš ๏ธ Just a little note to say that at the moment I am super grateful to be at full capacity with clients for both my Community Interest Company and also private clients ๐Ÿคโœจ

I shall advise when I am next taking on clients.

Thank you so much for keeping me busy and for trusting me โœจ๐Ÿค๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿผ

As a counsellor it is really important to me that I never stop growing and learning. I have learnt that it is normal to ...
11/02/2026

As a counsellor it is really important to me that I never stop growing and learning. I have learnt that it is normal to wonder if youโ€™re enough!

I suppose the counsellor who thinks they know everything, stops being curious and stops growing.

Being โ€˜good enoughโ€™ isnโ€™t about having all the answers. Itโ€™s actually about sitting beside someone while they find their own.

Itโ€™s about trusting the process. ๐Ÿ’›โœจ

Thank you to my loyal clients who trust the process and also put their trust in me x

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