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A therapeutic private practice dedicated to helping you navigate personal challenges, emotional distress, relationship conflicts, and life transitions.

10/10/2024

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16/09/2024

A recurring theme has emerged for me over the past few weeks in conversations with friends, colleagues, and clients: the intense difficulty individuals face in their mid to late 20s. While life is filled with challenges at every stage, there’s something particularly unsettling about this period, which is often marked by profound change, self-doubt, and transition.

It’s a time when we’re expected to fully step into our “adult selves,” even though, in many moments, we still feel like children.

Connections begin to shift as life paths diverge. Some friends may now be donning wedding rings, while others are opting for a backpack, setting off on journeys across continents.

Relationships are often questioned—those in them may wonder if they’re ready for a long-term commitment, while those who aren’t might question when they’ll find that elusive connection and stability within another.

In your late 20s, there’s also the realisation that life may not turn out to be exceptional as your 5-year-old self once dreamed. Most likely, you won’t become prime minister or journey into space.

So how do we find peace with where we are now, without being consumed by the uncertainty of where we’re headed?
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13/08/2024

The stress bucket (or glass bottle)

Imagine you have a bucket inside your body which collects all of your stresses.

Remember stress is:

- Physical (illness, even exercise is interpreted by the brain as a stressor).
- Emotional (interpersonal relationships- break ups, conflicts, depression, anxiety etc)
- Environmental (external factors from pollution and mould to political unrest)
- Psychological (perceptions, thoughts, attitudes)

This bucket may feel more empty or full day to day. We all have buckets or glasses of different sizes and we each vary in how much stress we can individually manage . This is often dictated by our early life experiences and how much stress we have had to cope with throughout our lives.

When stress is chronic and overwhelming; let’s say we are getting over an illness and start intensely exercising too soon and then suddenly get made redundant at work and our romantic relationships begin struggling and we are under financial pressure (sounds stressful I know…). This bucket may start to over spill or tip over entirely. This is when we can become vulnerable to conditions like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia and burn out. When our bucket has completely over spilt it becomes more challenging to empty the stress, opposed to if we seek to reduce it regularly and intuitively.

So before I reach this point how can reduce my load of stress?

- Socialising
- Intuitive exercise
- Meditation
- Breathwork
- Asking for help
- Reading
- Vagus nerve exercises
- Cold water swimming
- Therapy

And many more…

08/08/2024

How to find the right therapist for you:

Opening up to someone about intimate details of your life can feel daunting. It’s not always easy – but it can be life-changing. To go through this process, it’s essential that you find a therapist you can trust.

Research shows that one of the most important aspects of psychotherapy is the relationship you form with your therapist. A strong relationship will help you to overcome the challenges you face in the present and to heal from painful events in the past.

There are many different types of therapy some focused more on coping skills for present thoughts, behaviours, feelings and actions like CBT. Others dig deeper into how our negative past experiences may be manifesting in our present day lives, like Psychodynamic therapy. And there are a whole host of others (as many as 50 in fact). So it’s no surprise that it can get confusing!

I work in an Integrative style, pulling on a variety of approaches to provide the best individualised support I can for each unique client.

Here are some questions that might be helpful to ask a therapist if you are interested in starting. Remember, it’s your session and you are in control.

* What type of therapy do you do?
* What experience and training have you had in working with the issue I am dealing with?
* What can I expect to happen in our sessions?
* How long do you think we’d work together?
* What happens if I miss a session or am on holiday for one?
* How do you think you could help me?
* How will I know when my therapy is finished?
* Have you had therapy yourself?

I hope this helps!

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07/08/2024

Anxiety has been with us from as long as we know. Our ancestors needed it to survive. We need it too. But in our modern industrialised world, few of us are facing down predators on a daily basis. Yet, many of us still experience anxiety and fear daily, which can still feel like we are being hunted by that very lion. Anxiety is an essential function to motivate us to action- to fight or flight. But often we can get caught in this hypervigilant state when our bodies interpret modern stresses (emails, presentations, train delays) like we are fighting or fleeing for our lives from this lion. Gabor Mate (2004) explains that if we learn to read our anxiety signals not as danger, but as messages to be interpreted we can gain both knowledge and power and hone this discomfort into something useful. I work with clients to learn to remove the fear from anxiety and instead invite it in and explore the messages it has to offer us. As avoidance and suppression only makes it grow, signalling to the brain that it is in fact a threat. Please feel free to reach out with any questions.

07/08/2024

MY APPROACH
Feeling isolated, stuck, numb or in distress? Struggling with past experiences affecting your current connections? Close relationships lacking depth or intimacy? Or following a similar destructive pattern? Wrestling with worthlessness or asserting yourself? Facing a new crisis or transition?

Counselling can help remedy these issues. I specialise in exploring relationships, addressing communication challenges, conflicts, intimacy issues, family dynamics and self-improvement. My compassionate, non-judgmental, client-centred approach creates a warm, inclusive, respectful and confidential space. In our sessions, we’ll collaborate to explore your thoughts, feelings and experiences, identifying patterns impacting your relationships. Counselling helps understand these patterns and develop new ways of relating and enhancing self-awareness.

We are shaped by our social contexts and our sense of self is linked to our relationships. As an integrative counsellor, I draw on various theories and modalities, taking a keen interest in how trauma and emotion can become stuck within the body causing physical distress and symptoms ranging from numbness to panic. Other modalities include humanistic, psychodynamic, Gestalt, relational, trauma-informed, attachment theory, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and inner child work, as well as CBT techniques where appropriate.

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Tuesday	8am - 8pm
Wednesday	8am - 8pm
Thursday	8am - 8pm
Friday	8am - 8pm

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https://www.lindsayrowantherapy.com/

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