Sam Andreadis Craniosacral Therapy & Counselling

05/01/2026

LIGHT IS A METAPHOR AND CONCERN FOR THE NATURE AND EXPERIENCE OF BEING IN ALL THE MAJOR WORLD RELIGIONS - so to is the relationship between the light and shadow in SHAMANISM - AND CARL JUNG SAW THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OUR LIGHT AND SHADOW AS FUNDAMENTAL IN OUR EXPLORATION OF SELF.
In cranial and somatic work I conceive of light as health. A health that is fundamental - even when obscured by shade, it’s there. In this room it’s my job to help locate it, nurture it and grow it. Because the light is yours. You are a lamp unto yourself.

When you locate that life source, you can be a light in the world around you - orienting to light, health, joy and love as daily practise, as a way of life and shift in consciousness.

If this sounds like something you d like to set an intention around in the coming year, this is a place to start. Getting to know the shadow, clearing the interference and the obstruction to health so that we no longer need to split it off into fragments of light and shade. Instead, integrating into one glorious WHOLE. Where choice about how we show up, abounds.

Happy New Year

17/12/2025

Part III. Nope. Sorry!
This is all conceptual stuff. Theory and practise do not always align. So this instagram therapy echo chamber can often leave you feeling frustrated that either you or your therapist should have fixed it by now. But this is a journey of reorienting to your own inherent blueprint for health. I facilitate that journey to find your own homeostasis (physiological), your own regulation (emotional & NS), find and recognise your own power and autonomy and re-engage with that life force. The psychology is important but it’s the surface level. We expand to the body. We expand to the ancestry and heritage. We expand to whatever level you can go. But we always meet you where you are and go from there. That means I work in a variety of ways, sometimes drawing on psychotherapeutic theory, sometimes somatic theory and neurology, sometimes shamanic and indigenous belief systems, sometimes the philosophy of Metaphysics. For the nutritional, personal training and other therapies I can obviously advise where to go and why it might be necessary; there’s a limit to what I can do! But it’s ALL important. If you never see the light of day, maybe that’s where, with baby steps, we need to begin for example.
The point is, everything is theoretical until we find the way you can engage with it. And I think my clients would agree that we leave no stone unturned in getting there - oh and I mustn’t forget the inner child. The beautiful innocent you who needs to be found, needs to play and enjoy their body and their wonder at the feel of world or express their terror at it. This can often be a metaphorical juncture in mind body relations.

17/12/2025

Part II
Expanding the window of tolerance is a concept that helps us understand what we can cope with and at what point we become stressed.
As with everything I talk about it’s a mind body experience. You can’t really have an emotion without it producing a molecular shift of some kind in the body, which is why everyone talks about the nervous system these days: to the point I get asked, why is everything about the nervous system now? To which my considered answer would be it always was, it always has been in my training, but the information has ‘crossed-over’ (a music industry term for when non fans discover an artist and they go main stream) - it’s the same here. People now understand that they can’t think about their window of tolerance without including the stress response that’s happening in their body as a product of their nervous system (yawn, I know I’m boring) communicating that we need to ‘defend ourselves’ from a perceived threat of some kind.
Except as discussed in part I - these physiological defence mechanisms run amok. Theysend chemical signals to our brain that there’s danger. Our brains find a hook to hang the anxiety on. Our immune system starts firing up and we begin to feel unwell. It goes on and on.
So expanding the window of tolerance is HUGELY important. We are talking about increasing the range within which you can stay regulated. This means brain retraining. I use mindfulness techniques from trauma training to help bring you back into the moment and the reality that you are on the bus on the way to work, not in the stressful situation you were thinking about. I use grounding techniques of movement and awareness to guide you back into your body and out of dissociation. I use movement to complete a defence response you may not have been able to complete at the time, like pushing away or kicking. All by watching super closely what’s happening in your body as you speak.
But one of the most important things I give my clients is related to our body as a site of knowing and thinking - it takes the strain off the brain and reunites you with your only chance of survival in this embodied existence we have been gifted - allowing you to EXPAND✨✨✨✨

12/12/2025

So many people feel like this. Whether it is a prevalence of post viral illness about which we still know so little, or a symptom of an over-stressed culture, or due to your unique experience, one way of viewing it is from a holistic understanding of Defense Mechanisms. In the traditional Freudian sense these are unconscious behaviours we employ to make ourselves feel safe in the context in which we developed. These are psychological defences like humour, repression, denial, intellectualisation etc.
If we think about how those psychological defences influence our behaviour they might make us avoidant, people pleasing or appeasing. If we think about what’s happening in our nervous system as we repress our fear in the face of the world (whether it’s the workplace, social, in a noisy city) we start to get disregulation, a nervous system level reaction and preparation to defend either with fight or flight up regulation or freeze/collapse down regulation. This is all happening unconsciously both at a psychological and autonomic nervous system level. The problem is these psychological, emotional and nervous system feedback loops are sending messages back to our brain influencing a response from both the limbic and endocrine systems which can lead to immune suppression and behavioural modulation, such as reduced activity and sleep disturbance (too much and too little).
All of these systems are about defending you. Defending you from threat of every kind. From the metaphorical tiger to the tiniest virus. Our entire evolution of physical and mental form is about staying alive, defending from threat - somatic, emotional, psychological.
It’s a complex puzzle! But it’s not impossible, because it all starts with finding your way back to safety. It’s easier to start with making the body feel safe. When your brain is receiving internal messages of safety we can start a slow and gentle re patterning that allows all systems to expand a little, to come out of contraction, bracing and Defense and take a look around and find it’s not quite so dangerous as we at some level believed.
From here the therapy, or the relearning can start to gain some traction

04/12/2025

The debate around the validity of diagnoses of the neurodivergent spectrum rages today. It’s interesting that it is so enlivening for so many people. Perhaps because this area highlights the limitations of medicalisation and has become more about the politics of funding than the support of the individual.

Neurodiversity is neurological human experience that leads to many outcomes which are medically indisputable: from low Self Esteem, to a vulnerability to trauma, to a higher prevalence of OCD thinking, depression, anxiety, and maladaptive coping strategies like addiction or isolation and health outcomes like the increasingly prevalent dysautonomia’s. Whether an individual seeks diagnosis or sees value in that label, is surely a personal concern and an issue of cognitive liberty. How they choose to move forward with that is also a personal choice.

What I would notice is the one thing that seems universally helpful in getting the diagnosis whether 6 or 60 – is the blossoming of self-awareness, understanding and compassion that was generally preceded by a very critical inner voice. In my clinical experience this leads to happier, healthier individuals who are able to re-engage with school, work and the world with a better understanding of how to manage their needs. The rest is politics.

03/12/2025

We might not remember why we feel or react as we do which means ‘talking about it’ is no longer a way in. Many of our nervous system responses are formed in preverbal, prememory developmental stages, but it needn’t be a barrier to unlearning established somatic patterning. Tracking our body responses gives us a breadcrumb trail back to the triggers that activate a somatic response - meeting them with a contained felt sense of safety allows for new nervous system response and re patterning, opening up greater coherence and modulation in our felt experience. No longer lurching from fight or flight to freeze, but finding a route back to safe and social / rest and digest. When we use those particular words it becomes clear how far reaching the effect of this way of working is - spanning both mind and body, psychological and physiological, experience and behaviour.






90min MindBody appointments for emotional and physical regulation

12/11/2025

12/11/2025

Did your story start on the date of your birth? Did it start in the journey of birth? Did it start in utero? Does it start in the egg inside the foetus of your mother inside the womb of your grandmother? Does it start in your intergenerational or cultural inheritance? How did your nervous system and neurology evolve and adapt around these contexts? To expand fully into the totality of you, it’s vital we ask these questions and explore their answers ✨

02/11/2025

This profound statement by Maurice Merleau-Ponty invites us to reflect on our connection to the world around us and consider our bodies as a site of knowing and experience.

In this work we never leave your physical process behind.

07/10/2025

Continuing the theme that you are the expert and everything you need to heal is within you, poetry by Maria Sabina; words she took no credit for because she said the ‘ninos Santos’ spoke through her.

In this room your body speaks. In this room we clear the interference that obscures your path to health and growth.

02/10/2025

22/09/2025