Jayne Hopkins EMDR Trauma Therapist at Forgeways Therapy

01/02/2026

EMDR EUROPE ACCREDITED PRACTITIONER

Oh yes!

Feeling pleased with myself!

12/01/2026

Pleased to be involved with this wonderful local scheme, set up to support those on low income to access therapy...

10/01/2026

07/01/2026

DBT can really help. It sits well with EMDR trauma therapy... drop a line if you want to hear more...

It's 1961.
A 17-year-old girl is locked in a psychiatric ward.
The doctors don't expect her to survive.
She would go on to revolutionize
how we treat the "untreatable."

She spent 26 months there.
Seclusion rooms. Electroshock.
Burning herself. Banging her head against walls.

But Marsha Linehan made herself a vow:

She would get out of hell.
And she would find a way
to help others escape it too.

Decades later, she did exactly that.

She created Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT).
A treatment that would save countless lives.

Here's what Marsha Linehan taught us
that we desperately need today:

1/ Acceptance and Change Aren't Opposites
↳ Traditional therapy pushed only for change
↳ Linehan realized this felt invalidating
to people in extreme pain
↳ The breakthrough: Hold both.
Radical acceptance AND commitment to change.

2/ Validation Is a Clinical Intervention
↳ Before you can help someone change,
they need to feel understood
↳ Validation isn't agreeing.
It's acknowledging their pain makes sense.
↳ People can't hear solutions
until they feel heard.

3/ Skills Can Be Taught
↳ Emotional regulation isn't a personality trait.
It's a skill set.
↳ Distress tolerance can be learned.
Interpersonal effectiveness can be practiced.
↳ What was once called "untreatable"
became teachable.

4/ Meet People in Their Crises
↳ DBT includes phone coaching between sessions
↳ Skills aren't useful if they're only practiced
in the therapy room
↳ Real change happens in real moments.

5/ Your Suffering Can Become Your Purpose
↳ Linehan didn't hide from her past. She used it.
↳ In 2011, she publicly revealed
her own hospitalization
↳ Lived experience isn't a liability.
It's credibility.

Linehan gave us one phrase
that captures her life's work:

"The goal is to build a life worth living."

Not symptom-free. Not cured. Worth living.

She understood that healing isn't about erasing pain.
It's about creating meaning alongside it.

60+ years after that locked ward,
we are helping people build lives worth living

Words by Dr. Eric Arzubi MD. Psychiatrist.

04/01/2026

BLOEDD 📢 CALL OUT (Cymraeg isod)

On new years day at 5:30 pm we assisted North Wales Police in supporting someone experiencing a mental health crisis. Specially trained police officers had assisted them and with our support everyone was off the hill by 9pm.

We know this can be a hard time of year. If you or someone you know is struggling, please seek support. Phone 111 and press 2, or the samaritans on 116 123, or you can chat online with them if that suits you better.

As this is a sensitive issue, we have turned off comments on this post. Check on your friends this January and let's support each other through these dark days.

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Ar Ddydd Calan am 5:30 pm, fe wnaethon ni gynorthwyo Heddlu Gogledd Cymru i gefnogi rhywun sy'n profi argyfwng iechyd meddwl. Roedd swyddogion heddlu wedi'u hyfforddi'n arbennig wedi'u cynorthwyo a chyda'n cefnogaeth ni roedd pawb oddi ar y bryn erbyn 9pm.

Rydym yn gwybod y gall hwn fod yn gyfnod anodd o'r flwyddyn. Os ydych chi neu rywun rydych chi'n ei adnabod yn cael trafferth, ceisiwch gefnogaeth. Ffoniwch 111 a gwasgwch 2, neu'r Samariaid ar 116 123, neu gallwch sgwrsio ar-lein gyda nhw os yw hynny'n fwy addas i chi.

Gan fod hwn yn fater sensitif, rydym wedi diffodd sylwadau ar y post hwn. Edrychwch ar eich ffrindiau ym mis Ionawr a gadewch i ni gefnogi ein gilydd trwy'r dyddiau tywyll hyn.

02/01/2026

Not sure about instantly....but worth a try

14/12/2025

14/12/2025

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1AHZub5UqN/

12/12/2025

Its the little things....that add up