Just Be Counselling Pembrokeshire

22/05/2025

Shane from Just Be Counselling in The Vale of Glamorgan facilitates a wellbeing group on Tuesdays in Pontypridd for carers located in RCT. If that is you, give it a try. I hear they are a friendly bunch.

Carers Connections!

23/04/2025

Hi, I am Tanya, owner of Just Be Counselling Pembrokeshire.
I work with couples and individuals from all paths of life in my practice in Milford Haven or on video or on the phone.
I specialise in trauma counselling but I also have extensive experience in helping clients with anxiety, low self esteem, identity issues, relationships, boundaries, loss of purpose and meaning and all manner of life events.
In addition I am a counselling supervisor and work with qualified counsellors and students. If you would like to know more, you can contact me on tanya@justbecounselling or on 07458 301438.

03/03/2025

Happy Birthday to us. 🎂 Just Be Counselling started 5 years ago in Llantwit Major. Now we are in the Vale of Glamorgan and in Pembrokeshire offering counselling to individuals and couples and supervision to counsellors and trainee counsellors.

Just Be Counselling started five years ago! A lot has changed since then, but our ethos remains - we're here to listen.

17/01/2025

If you are 11-18 years old or the parent or friend of a young person who would like to talk to someone about how they are feeling, take a look at this.

👍 Mental health support for 11-18 year olds.
👍 Wellbeing workshops every Saturday 6pm-7:30pm.
👍 LGBTQIA+ Group every Sunday 6pm-7:30pm.
👍 No booking required.
👍 No waiting times.
👍 Free - no cost.

See you there! 🙂🙂🙂

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10/10/2024

It’s World Mental Health Day. Don’t forget that mental health is like physical health. It’s always there. Sometimes it’s good, sometimes more difficult. But the more we look after ourselves the healthier we will be. Both physically and mentally.

10/10/2024

It’s World Mental Health Day. Don’t forget mental health is like physical health. It’s always there. Sometimes we feel good, sometimes it’s more difficult. But the more we look after ourselves, the better the chance of being healthy, both physically and mentally.

08/10/2024

This really resonated with me today. What do we need from our partners and what do they need from us? I like the idea of being understood and appreciated in love.

Once you grow up, you realize you don’t want to be crazy in love.

You want to be calm in love,
stable in love, patient in love,
understood in love, safe in love.

Your partner should give you peace of mind and reassurance, not constant little heart attacks and high anxiety.

~Emily von Strasser

art | Lucy Alme Bird

07/10/2024

Thanks Milford Haven Town Council for spotlighting Justbecounselling.co.uk
If you are interested in knowing more or to book a session, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

01/05/2024

We can repair to be stronger and more beautiful.

Though we may keep a little quiet about this, especially when we’re young, we tend deep down to be rather hopeful that we will – eventually – manage to find perfection in a number of areas. We dream of one day securing an ideally harmonious relationship, deeply fulfilling work, a happy family life and the respect of others. But life has a habit of dealing us a range of blows – and leaving nothing much of this array of fine dreams save some shattered and worthless fragments.

It’s at moments of disillusion that we might turn our minds to a concept drawn from Japanese philosophy, and in particular, from the Zen Buddhist approach to ceramics. Over the centuries, Zen masters developed an argument that pots, cups and bowls that had become damaged shouldn’t simply be neglected or thrown away. They should continue to attract our respect and attention and be repaired with enormous care – this process symbolising a reconciliation with the flaws and accidents of time, reinforcing some big underlying themes of Zen. The word given to this tradition of ceramic repair is kintsugi:

Kin = golden
tsugi = joinery

It means, literally, ‘to join with gold’. In Zen aesthetics, the broken pieces of an accidentally-smashed pot should be carefully picked up, reassembled and then glued together with lacquer inflected with a very luxuriant gold powder. There should be no attempt to disguise the damage, the point is to render the fault-lines beautiful and strong. The precious veins of gold are there to emphasise that breaks have a
philosophically-rich merit all of their own.

The practice of Kintsugi has much to teach us about how to repair our lives when things have gone badly wrong. Follow the link to learn more.

https://www.theschooloflife.com/article/kintsugi/