Leicester Therapy and Counselling Services

01/03/2026

EMDR isn’t just for trauma.

At Leicester Therapy, we often work with people who don’t identify as having experienced “big T” trauma — but still feel stuck, overwhelmed or held back by patterns they can’t shift.

🌿 EMDR can help with non-trauma issues such as:

• Anxiety and chronic worry
• Depression and low mood
• Low self-esteem and confidence issues
• Phobias and fears
• Relationship patterns and attachment difficulties
• Grief and loss
• Performance anxiety (work, sport, public speaking)
• ADHD/ASD-related emotional overwhelm
• Stress and burnout

EMDR works by helping the brain reprocess unhelpful memories, beliefs and emotional blocks that may be driving current difficulties — even when they don’t feel like “trauma.”

Many clients notice:
✔ Reduced emotional reactivity
✔ Greater clarity and calm
✔ Improved self-belief
✔ Healthier relationship patterns
✔ Feeling less stuck in the past

Sessions last around 60 minutes and can be delivered face-to-face in Leicester using the latest EMDR equipment.

If you’re feeling stuck but unsure why, EMDR could help you move forward.

📍 Leicester Therapy
🌐 www.leicestertherapy.co.uk⁠�
📞 07453 424 377
💬 WhatsApp available
🕒 Free 20-minute consultation available
Taking the first step can feel difficult — but you don’t have to do it alone.

26/02/2026

🌿 Feeling Disconnected? Grounding Techniques Can Help 🌿

At Leicester Therapy, we understand how unsettling dissociation — that sense of feeling “zoned out,” disconnected from your body or surroundings — can be. Grounding is a powerful set of simple tools that help bring your attention back to the present moment, interrupt dissociative episodes, and support emotional regulation as part of your wellbeing toolkit.

Grounding works by helping you reconnect with your body, environment, and senses when thoughts or feelings start to drift. It can be especially useful in moments when dissociation starts to take over.

Here are 5 grounding techniques you can try:
✨ 1. 5-4-3-2-1 Sensory Grounding
Name:
• 5 things you see
• 4 things you can touch
• 3 things you hear
• 2 things you smell
• 1 thing you can taste

This helps anchor your awareness back in the present moment.

✨ 2. Temperature Reset
Hold something cold like an ice cube, or splash cool water on your face. Strong physical sensations help interrupt dissociative thinking.

✨ 3. Deep or Box Breathing
Slow breathing patterns like box breathing (inhale, hold, exhale, hold for equal counts) calm your nervous system and refocus your mind on your body.

✨ 4. Describe Your Environment
Talk out loud (or in your head) about what you see around you — “The sofa is grey, the sky outside looks cloudy…” — to bring attention outward instead of inward.

✨ 5. Use a Grounding Object
Carry something tactile — a stone, piece of fabric, fidget toy — and really focus on how it feels in your hand. This physical contact helps your brain realise you are here, now.

💬 Feeling stuck or unsure which technique works best for you? That’s completely normal — different approaches work for different people, and sometimes it helps to explore techniques together in therapy.
At Leicester Therapy, we offer compassionate counselling and EMDR support to help you build resilience and coping strategies in a safe, confidential space. �
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If dissociation or stress is impacting you, reaching out for support can be a meaningful first step. ❤️
📍 Find out more at ➡️
https://www.leicestertherapy.co.uk⁠�

Call 07453 424 377 for a FREE 20-minute consultation

24/02/2026

💛Moving Towards Secure Attachment – And How It Feels When You Get There

When you begin attachment-focused therapy, you may start by recognising anxious, avoidant or disorganised patterns in your relationships. You might notice fear of abandonment, emotional shutdown, overthinking, people-pleasing, conflict avoidance, or push–pull dynamics.
These patterns were not weaknesses.
They were intelligent adaptations to early experiences.
Through therapy — including attachment-focused work and EMDR where appropriate — many adults begin to experience something different.

What Living in Secure Attachment Feels Like
After processing trauma and early attachment wounds, clients often describe:

💛 Calmer relationships
You no longer feel constantly on edge waiting for rejection or conflict.
💛 Less overthinking
Your mind feels quieter. You don’t analyse every message or interaction for hidden meaning.
💛 Healthy closeness
You can be emotionally close without losing yourself — and independent without shutting others out.
💛 Stronger boundaries
You can say no without guilt and express needs without fear.
💛 Emotional regulation
Triggers still happen — but they no longer overwhelm you. You respond rather than react.
💛 Stable self-worth
Your value no longer depends on someone else’s approval.
💛 Safety in connection

Perhaps most importantly, relationships begin to feel safe rather than threatening.
Secure attachment doesn’t mean perfect relationships.
It means resilience, repair, and emotional steadiness.
It means knowing: “I am worthy of love.”
“I can cope if things go wrong.”
“I don’t have to abandon myself to keep others.”

At Leicester Therapy, attachment-focused therapy for adults is delivered face-to-face in Leicester by a BACP Accredited Therapist and EMDR Practitioner, offering a safe, structured and compassionate space to heal early wounds and build secure connection.

📞 Call or WhatsApp: 07453 424 377
🌐 Leicestertherapy.co.uk
🕒 Free 20-minute consultation available

You are not broken.
Your nervous system adapted to survive.
And with the right support, you can build something more secure.

20/02/2026

🌱 Healing Attachment Wounds & Finding Secure Connection 🌱

Have you been working on your attachment style and wondering what life looks like when you move into secure attachment mode? At Leicester Therapy, we know how transformative this journey can be – and it’s not just about feeling better… it’s about living better.

❤️ What people often notice after working through attachment issues:
✨ Feeling safe with emotional closeness and intimacy
✨ Comfort with giving and receiving support
✨ Better communication and trust in relationships
✨ Healthy boundaries without fear or avoidance
✨ Greater self-awareness and confidence
✨ Reduced anxiety around rejection or abandonment

These changes don’t happen overnight, but with compassionate, evidence-based counselling and therapeutic support you can build more secure, fulfilling connections with others — and a more stable relationship with yourself. Therapy offers a safe space to understand old patterns, process past hurts, and strengthen your emotional resilience.

📞 Contact Leicester Therapy:
📱 Phone: 07453 424377
📧 Email: leicestertherapy@gmail.com

📍 Office: Office 5, Above Leicester Coffee House Company, Granby Street, Leicester, LE1 1DA 🇬🇧
Free 15–20 min consultation available (face-to-face, online, telephone or home visits) — so you can explore if therapy is right for you before you begin.

🌟 Ready to take the next step on your journey toward secure attachment and emotional wellbeing? Reach out today. 💬

19/02/2026

19/02/2026

💛 Understanding Your Attachment Style Could Change Your Relationships 💛
Many adult relationship struggles are rooted in early attachment experiences. The way we learned to connect (or protect ourselves) in childhood often shapes how we relate to others today.
The Four Main Attachment Styles:

🔹 Secure Attachment
Develops when caregivers were mostly consistent, emotionally available and safe. As adults, secure individuals tend to trust others, communicate needs clearly, and handle conflict in healthy ways.

🔹 Anxious Attachment
Often forms when care was inconsistent — sometimes available, sometimes not. As adults, this can look like fear of abandonment, overthinking, needing reassurance, or feeling emotionally overwhelmed in relationships.

🔹 Avoidant Attachment
Can develop when emotional needs were dismissed or discouraged. As adults, this may show up as difficulty with closeness, shutting down emotionally, valuing independence to the extreme, or discomfort relying on others.

🔹 Disorganised Attachment
Often linked to trauma, abuse, or frightening caregiving. This can lead to a push–pull dynamic in relationships — wanting closeness but fearing it at the same time.

The important thing to know?
✨ Attachment styles are adaptations — not life sentences.

Moving Towards Secure Attachment
Through attachment-focused therapy, adults can:
✔ Understand where their patterns began
✔ Regulate emotional responses more effectively
✔ Process trauma using EMDR where appropriate
✔ Develop healthier boundaries
✔ Build self-worth and internal safety
✔ Learn to communicate needs confidently

Over time, this work helps you “earn” secure attachment — creating safer, more stable and fulfilling relationships.
At Leicester Therapy, sessions are delivered face-to-face in Leicester by a BACP Accredited Therapist and EMDR Practitioner, offering a professional, compassionate space to explore and heal.

📞 Call or WhatsApp: 07453 424 377
🌐 www.leicestertherapy.co.uk�
🕒 Free 20-minute consultation available
You are not broken — your nervous system adapted to survive.
And with the right support, you can build something more secure.

19/02/2026

💛 Still Struggling in Adult Relationships? Your Attachment Style May Be the Key. 💛

Many adults find themselves repeating the same relationship patterns — fearing abandonment, struggling to trust, overreacting emotionally, or feeling “not good enough.”

Often, these patterns began in childhood. When early attachment needs weren’t fully met, we develop ways to cope and survive. As adults, those same strategies can create anxiety, conflict, low self-esteem, and relationship difficulties.

At Leicester Therapy, we work with adults to gently explore and heal attachment wounds so you can:

✨ Build healthier, more secure relationships
✨ Reduce anxiety and emotional overwhelm
✨ Improve self-worth and confidence
✨ Break repeating negative patterns
✨ Heal trauma and childhood experiences that still impact you today
Therapy is provided face-to-face in Leicester by a BACP Accredited Therapist and EMDR Practitioner, offering a safe, confidential and professional space for real, lasting change.

📞 Call or WhatsApp: 07453 424 377

🌐 www.leicestertherapy.co.uk

🕒 Free 20-minute consultation available.

You don’t have to keep living from old survival patterns.
Secure, fulfilling relationships, including the one with yourself are possible — and healing can begin today.

25/01/2026

🌟 January EMDR Offer at Leicester Therapy! 🌟
New year, new possibilities! If you’re looking to start 2026 with stronger mental wellbeing, we’re here to support you. 💛
For January only, we are offering EMDR therapy sessions for just £99 per session (normally £120) when you book a block of sessions. EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) isn’t just for trauma — it can also help with:
✨ Anxiety
✨ Depression
✨ Loss
✨ ADHD & ASD
… and much more, by helping your brain process distressing experiences in a gentle, effective way. �
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Whether you’re ready to explore healing, build resilience, or simply want to feel more in control of your emotions, EMDR could be the step you’ve been looking for.
📞 Contact us for a FREE 20-minute consultation:
📱 07453 424377
📧 leicestertherapy@gmail.com
📍 Office 5, Above Leicester Coffee House Company, Granby Street, LE1 1DA
Face-to-face, online, telephone & home visits available. �
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Start your journey to greater peace and wellbeing today 💛

24/01/2026

🧠 You don’t have to go through it alone.
You can find support, clarity, and healing.
Life’s challenges — anxiety, depression, loss, the pain of a relationship ending — can feel overwhelming and isolating. But reaching out for support is a brave and powerful first step toward feeling better.
At Leicester Therapy, working with an experienced, compassionate counselling psychotherapist - support is available.
To help you:
✨ Understand and manage difficult emotions
✨ Develop tools for coping with anxiety and depression
✨ Work through grief and loss
✨ Heal from relationship breakdowns and build healthier futures

Leicester Therapy offers a safe, confidential, and non-judgmental space to explore your thoughts and feelings with a qualified BACP-accredited therapist. There’s no pressure — just support tailored to your individual needs.
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👉 Take the first step today — visit https://www.leicestertherapy.co.uk
or book a free 20 introductory consultation to see how therapy can help you move forward with confidence. �
leicestertherapy.co.uk
07453 424 377 📞 or WhatsApp or text
You’re worth the care. 💛

21/01/2026

🌱 Healing Starts Within: Working With Your Inner Child 🌱
Do patterns from childhood still show up in your life today?
Difficult relationships, low self-esteem, anxiety, emotional triggers, or feeling “stuck” are often rooted in early experiences that were never fully processed.
At Leicester Therapy, working with your inner child can help you gently heal those old wounds and create lasting change.
✨ Benefits of Inner Child Work
• Heal childhood trauma, neglect, bullying or emotional abuse
• Reduce anxiety, shame and emotional overwhelm
• Improve relationships and attachment patterns
• Build self-compassion, confidence and emotional safety
• Break unhelpful patterns that no longer serve you
Inner child therapy helps you understand why certain reactions still occur — and gives you the tools to respond differently today, as an adult, with strength and choice.
💬 Free 20-Minute Consultation
If you’re curious whether this approach is right for you, book a free, no-obligation 20-minute consultation to talk things through.
📍 Face-to-face therapy in Leicestershire
🌐 https://www.leicestertherapy.co.uk
📞 Call or WhatsApp: 07453 424 377
You don’t have to keep carrying the past alone.
Healing is possible — and it starts with compassion for the parts of you that learned to survive 💚