Rabeya's Counselling Services

26/11/2025

✨ Gratitude, Nourishment & Mental Wellbeing ✨
Feeling extremely grateful today for the food on my plate and the privilege of being able to meal prep. With everything happening around the world, it’s truly heart-wrenching to see the struggles to access even the basics. It makes you pause. It makes you appreciate. 💛

'What you eat is what you are'.... This term is something we genuinely live by in our house. We know “healthy” has many schools of thought, but one thing is clear: nutrition deeply impacts how you feel, mentally and physically. Planning ahead and having nutritious meals ready can go such a long way—especially when life feels heavy.

For anyone living with anxiety, depression, or low motivation, structure and routine can feel overwhelming… and even getting enough protein or regular meals may be a challenge. A recent article, “Hungry for Change” in the October edition of Drinks & Drugs News, highlighted just how essential eating well is for overall functioning—something many people simply don’t have the privilege of doing...

In our house, we keep things simple:
🍉 Prepping fruits and salads
🥗 Easy add-ons to meals
🍓 Quick, nourishing snacks for those moments when your body craves sugar

Small steps like these create structure, reduce overwhelm, and help build a sense of achievement—especially on difficult days.

Here’s your gentle reminder: caring for your nutrition is not about perfection. It’s about supporting your wellbeing, honouring your body, and finding little ways to bring routine, stability, and kindness into your everyday life. 🫶✨

20/11/2025

04/11/2025

✨🐾 Cats & Therapy 🐾✨

Meet Yunna, my regal little companion — poised, wise, and unapologetically herself. There’s something profoundly therapeutic about sharing space with a cat. They remind us of the rhythm of stillness, of presence without words.

Like therapy, being with a cat invites us to sit with what is — the joy, the quiet, and sometimes even the ache that surfaces when we slow down enough to feel it.

Yunna doesn’t fix pain, but she witnesses it. And isn’t that what healing often begins with — being truly seen?

Whether through fur or feelings, both cats and therapy help us reconnect with tenderness, trust, and the quiet majesty of being alive. 💛

01/11/2025

✨ "A simple smile can change someone’s whole day — including yours." ✨

This little quote was on a table in a cosy restaurant we went to, after a forest venture — a day spent away from screens, climbing trees, walking on crispy autumn leaves, and listening to the sounds of Mother Nature. 🍂🌳

A reminder of how healing simple moments can be — a smile, fresh air, laughter, movement, or stillness beneath the trees. These small acts of presence help reset our nervous system and nurture our mindset.

In therapy, we often explore how the smallest shifts can open the biggest changes. Sometimes healing isn’t found in doing more, but in simply being. 🌿

26/09/2025

Sometimes healing takes us back. 🌰

I was reminded of conkers from my childhood — the excitement of finding the shiniest one, the sting of losing a game, the laughter, and the small heartbreaks that felt so big at the time.

Nostalgia often holds both comfort and pain. In therapy, when we explore inner child work, we’re often invited to revisit those early moments. It isn’t always easy — sometimes it stirs up things we thought we’d left behind. But going back can help us see the child within us who still longs to be noticed, understood, or cared for.

Inner child work isn’t about staying stuck in the past. It’s about gently offering our younger selves the compassion and safety they may have needed then — and still need now. 💛

Sometimes healing looks like a conker in your pocket — a small reminder that the child you once were still lives within you, and still deserves your kindness.

🌰

19/09/2025

🧠 Thinking About Thinking

When we live with ADHD, anxiety, depression, or the long shadows of trauma, our relationship with our own mind can feel complicated. Thoughts can come too fast, too loud, too tangled—or sometimes feel flat and heavy, like they’ve lost their spark.

That’s why I love this book- It’s an amazing visual book that uses humour, colour, and comical cartoons to make sense of what’s happening in our heads. It manages to take complex ideas about the mind and make them accessible, meaningful, and even fun. Anyone who opens it can find something that resonates.

In therapy, the idea of thinking about thinking—metacognition—becomes an important part of healing. It’s not about controlling every thought, but noticing:

✨ What patterns show up in my thinking?
✨ How do those patterns affect my emotions, my body, my choices?
✨ Do my thoughts serve me, or do they keep me stuck?

For ADHD, this might mean catching the constant mental darting. For anxiety, noticing the “what if” spirals. In depression, recognising the heavy, self-critical loops. With trauma, it’s about understanding how past experiences still shape present reactions.

This book offers a light-hearted way into these deep reflections—reminding us that self-understanding doesn’t always have to feel heavy.

🌱 Compassion for ourselves
🌱 New tools for focus and grounding
🌱 Gentle curiosity instead of harsh judgment
🌱 The possibility of stepping out of old cycles

Our thoughts don’t define us—but exploring them with curiosity (and even a little humour) can help us heal, grow, and reclaim choice in our lives.

17/09/2025

On my walking travels I came across this poem, Your Best. It stopped me in my tracks.

It’s a reminder that:
✨ People may misunderstand your intentions — do good anyway.
✨ Your efforts may be forgotten — do them anyway.
✨ You may feel vulnerable — be honest anyway.
✨ What you build might be broken — build anyway.

At its heart: give your best, not because of how it’s received, but because it’s who you are.

As a therapist, this really resonates. In life, in motherhood, in relationships, and in the work I do — there will always be challenges, but choosing to keep showing up with sincerity, compassion, and courage makes the difference.

🌱 It doesn’t matter what comes back to you — give your best anyway.

14/09/2025

This week has been a full one — and a meaningful one.

At work, I’ve been holding space in the Creative Café: conversations, creativity, and connection. It’s powerful to see how sitting together, creating, and speaking openly can spark healing. 💭

On Friday, I joined the with a friend — real talk on womanhood, motherhood, hair care, and connection (with breakfast + coffee ☕). Afterwards, we took time as mothers to walk, reflect, and breathe.

We’ve had interesting walks, noticed new things, enjoyed Sunday roasts in places like Rabbit Hole, and absorbed the rhythms of London life. 🏙️✨

As a therapist, I often remind others of the importance of self-care and connection, but I need those reminders too. In these moments I’ve felt the power of connection and the power of speech — relearning, releasing, and adding to my own life experiences. 🌱

Self-care isn’t a luxury. It’s a necessity, for all of us.

01/09/2025

✨ I came across this book on my travels — The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt. Its strapline stopped me in my tracks:
“How the great rewiring of childhood is causing the epidemic of mental illness.”

📱 Childhood today is shaped by screens. They connect us, yes — but they can also overwhelm us, fuelling anxiety, comparison, and overstimulation.

Sometimes what we need most is not another scroll… but a space to pause, speak, and simply be. 🌱

➡️ Swipe through to reflect.
💬 Do you notice the impact of screens on your own wellbeing or the young people around you?

13/07/2025

🕊️ The White Moth and the Lightness of Healing
Photographed on my window – quiet, still, and luminous.

This beautiful, delicate moth appeared as I was reflecting on the nervous system and the quiet ways we seek safety, rest, and release.

There’s something so symbolic about it — soft, fuzzy, almost cloud-like — as if it holds within it the essence of lightness. And yet, it clings to the glass, still and unmoving. How many of us live like that? Longing for light, but held in place by unseen tension.

In my counselling practice, this image resonates deeply.

🌬️ We carry so much — stress, grief, burnout, fear, loneliness. Often, our bodies hold it all in silence. Our nervous systems adapt, over-function, shut down, or go on alert.
And just like this moth, we may pause—halfway between movement and stillness—longing to feel safe enough to soften.

✨ Therapy can be the light.
A place to offload.
To soften the edges.
To feel again.
To let go.
To breathe.
To return to the self.

When we regulate the nervous system—through breath, presence, and deep attunement—we invite lightness back in. Therapy becomes the space where heaviness slowly dissolves, and something gentle, even hopeful, emerges.

Sometimes healing looks like this white moth:
Not loud.
Not fast.
But tender.
Delicate.
And full of quiet power.

Trauma-informed counselling for lightness, grounding, and release 🤍

28/06/2025

🧠💬 AI in Therapy: Can We Make It Work For Us?

As therapists, we’re always adapting—new research, new challenges, new ways of connecting. Now, artificial intelligence is stepping into the mental health space. From chatbots offering emotional support to AI-assisted clinical notes, the landscape is shifting fast.

But here's the question:
Can we make AI work for us, not replace us?

🤖 Used wisely, AI could:

-Free up time from admin work

-Improve accessibility for clients

-Offer data insights to support clinical decisions

But it also raises concerns:

-Privacy and ethics

-Loss of the human touch

-Bias in algorithms

As practitioners, clients, and humans, how do we hold both curiosity and caution?

Is AI a helpful companion in therapy—or something we should resist?

05/06/2025

🌿 Hoya, Hope & Holding On 🌿

In the shadow of heartbreak—especially as we witness the ongoing genocide in Palestine—hope can feel fragile. And yet, it lives on.

The Hoya plant, with its quiet growth and persistent strength, reminds us: even in darkness, life reaches toward the light. Its vines don’t rush, but they never stop. Just like the will to survive. Just like resistance.

Bringing nature into our spaces is more than comfort—it's connection. To the earth, to each other, and to a deeper belief that healing is possible.

🌱 Hope is not passive. It grows, it climbs, and it holds on.