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Lisa Fox Counselling and Psychotherapy

BACP Accredited Humanistic and Integrative Counsellor and Psychotherapist based in Edwinstowe.

Holding space for healing from trauma and abuse, honouring neurodivergent & LGBTQIA+ experiences.

25/02/2026

This week is Eating Disorders Awareness Week

And I wanted to talk about Compassion for the Body.

When the world feels overwhelming or safe connection feels hard to find, many of us look for ways to cope. For some, this shows up in our relationship with food and our bodies. It might be a way to feel in control or a way to manage sensory overload.

If your relationship with your body feels like a battle, please know that you are not failing. Your body has been doing its best to carry you through everything you have experienced.

In therapy with me we could work toward a relationship with yourself that is based on safety and compassion rather than judgment.

For support with your relationship with yourself, I have online spaces available.

📩 lisafoxtherapy@proton.me

24/02/2026

Swans and ducks glide across the lake, steady and composed. What we don't see is the constant movement beneath the water, the quiet effort it takes to stay afloat.

Eating disorders can be similar. What shows on the surface rarely tells the whole story. They often begin as solutions, ways to cope, regulate, or create a sense of control when the world feels too loud, too fast, or unsafe.

They're not about vanity or attention. They are not a lack of willpower. They are communication from the body and nervous system saying something important needs care.

During Eating Disorders Awareness Week, it feels important to slow down and listen more closely. To move away from assumptions and towards curiosity. Not why can’t you just eat, but what has eating come to represent for you.

I currently have availability for online therapy
📩 Lisafoxtherapy@proton.me

What do you notice beneath the surface, in yourself or in others, that often goes unseen?

23/02/2026

This week is eating disorders awareness week, as a therapist, I want you to know this.

Eating distress often develops in environments where it wasn't safe to take up space, have needs, or be fully yourself.

When the world has responded with misunderstanding, criticism, rejection, or harm, the body and mind find ways to cope. Food, control, numbness, restriction, or rules can become strategies for survival rather than problems to be judged.

Difference doesn't mean wrong. Neurodivergence, queerness, sensitivity, creativity, intensity, and depth are not things to fix. Distress often arises from having to adapt to systems and relationships that were not built with you in mind.

Healing is not about forcing change or overriding parts of yourself. It's about developing safety, curiosity, and choice. It's about understanding why certain patterns made sense, and gently expanding what feels possible now.

If any of this resonates, reflection is already happening.

I currently have availability for online therapy

📩 lisafoxtherapy@proton.me

What do you think people most misunderstand about eating distress or coping behaviours?

20/02/2026

I noticed something the other day while washing my hands in a café bathroom. A mirror with the words You’re amazing. Simple. Almost easy to dismiss. And yet words land whether we invite them in or not.

The language we hear repeatedly becomes familiar. Familiarity often turns into believable. Our nervous systems respond to tone, repetition, and meaning long before logic steps in. This is why the way we speak to ourselves matters more than we often realise.

If your inner voice learned it's tone in environments where safety, acceptance, or understanding were inconsistent, it makes sense that encouragement can feel awkward, exaggerated, or even uncomfortable. That does not mean it's wrong. It usually means it's unfamiliar.

Self talk is not about pretending everything is fine or forcing positivity. It's about accuracy. About noticing when the voice inside is harsh, or shaming, and gently asking where it learned to speak that way. Over time, new language can sit alongside the old, offering choice rather than control.

Sometimes a mirror in a café is not trying to convince you of anything. It is simply offering a different sentence to try on.

I currently have availability for online therapy sessions

📩 Lisafoxtherapy@proton.me

What words do you find yourself repeating internally when no one else is listening?

19/02/2026

Living as an LGBTQIA+ person often means having to invent your way through a world that wasn’t built with you in mind, finding new ways to love, to work, to belong.

That creativity is a real strength.
And it can also be exhausting.

It’s okay to be tired of being resilient.
It’s okay to pause, soften, and rest in the life you’ve created even for a moment.

I currently have availability for online clients.

📩 lisafoxtherapy@proton.me

18/02/2026

February is LGBTQIA+ History Month, the theme this year is Creative Survival Science and Innovation, focusing on LGBTQ+ scientists and innovators.

Living as a member of the LGBTQIA+ community often requires a huge amount of creativity. When the world isn't designed for your way of expressing your gender, your identity or your way of loving, you have to innovate.

You have to find new ways to build family, new ways to work and new ways to exist.

This creativity is a profound strength, but it can also be exhausting to always have to figure things out on your own. It's okay to be tired of being resilient. In our work, we could look at how you can move from surviving to actually feeling settled in the life you've created for yourself

How does your body feel when you allow yourself to stop trying so hard for just a moment?

I have current availability for online clients.

📩 lisafoxtherapy@proton.me

17/02/2026

Wellbeing is contagious - so is harm.

Harm is not always loud or obvious.

Sometimes it looks like being subtly corrected again and again. Having your reality questioned. Being talked over, misunderstood, or expected to explain yourself endlessly. Sometimes it is the absence of curiosity, the lack of repair, or the quiet sense that you have to edit yourself to stay connected.

These experiences can be hard to name because nothing dramatic happened. And yet the body often knows. Tension builds. Energy drains. Self doubt creeps in. This is not oversensitivity. It is a nervous system responding to repeated misattunement.

Wellbeing grows in places where difference is allowed to exist without explanation, where impact matters as much as intent, and where care includes accountability. Paying attention to what feels quietly depleting can be an important step towards change.

I currently have availability for online work.
Lisafoxtherapy@proton.me

What feels quietly draining for you at the moment?

16/02/2026

Hope is often described as something bright and future focused, but for many hope is quieter than that.

Sometimes hope is fifteen minutes of dry weather in the middle of a rainy day, week, or year. Not enough to fix anything. Not enough to pretend things are suddenly fine. Just enough to breathe a little differently.

From a nervous system perspective, these moments matter. Even brief pauses are registered. Shoulders drop. Breath changes. The body learns, slowly, that relief can exist alongside difficulty. This is not positive thinking. It is biological learning.

When life has been shaped by trauma, difference, or long periods of having to endure, waiting for big change can feel impossible. Small moments of easing are often more accessible and more honest. They do not demand optimism. They simply ask for notice.

You are not failing at hope if all you can manage is a few dry minutes.

That can still be enough for today.

I currently have availability for online therapy.
✉️ Lisafoxtherapy@proton.me

Where have you noticed even a brief easing or pause recently?

12/02/2026

Children’s Mental Health Week is about belonging and finding your place.

For so many of us, growing up feeling different also meant growing up feeling like we were somehow wrong. Too sensitive. Too quiet. Too much. Not enough.

But the truth is,

Different doesn’t mean wrong - and it never did.

If you’re carrying that message for your younger self, or still feeling it now, healing can begin with offering yourself the understanding that you aren't wrong, bad or too much and you never were.

I offer online therapy for those ready to explore this gently and at their own pace.

📩 lisafoxtherapy@proton.me

11/02/2026

This week is children's mental health week and the theme is finding your place. I'd like to focus on those of us who grew up feeling like they never really fitted in.

Many of us grew up feeling this way, despite trying incredibly hard.

If you are neurodivergent, maybe you suspect, or you've had a late diagnosis, or you just felt different as a child, you might have spent years trying to fit into a mold that was never made for you. You might have had to hide your true self just to get by.

Healing often involves looking back at that younger version of you and acknowledging that they deserved to belong exactly as they were.

If you could say one kind thing to the child you once were, what would it be?

I offer online therapy for those ready to start their healing journey.

📩 lisafoxtherapy@proton.me

10/02/2026

The path appears when you begin.

So much pressure is placed on knowing, planning, and getting it right before moving at all. But lived experience often tells a different story. Clarity tends to come through movement, not before it. Through trying, pausing, adjusting, and continuing.

Beginning doesn't have to be bold or confident. It can be quiet, and imperfect. What matters is allowing yourself to move rather than waiting to feel certain.

If you are considering online therapy, I currently have availability.
📩 Lisafoxtherapy@proton.me

What might beginning look like for you right now?

09/02/2026

As the seasons shift, our nervous systems notice, even if we don't consciously name it.

Early spring can bring a subtle stirring. Light changes, temperature shifts, the first signs of growth like daffodils pushing through the ground, despite the soil not being tended to for months, they're determined!

For some people this feels hopeful. For others it can feel unsettling, activating, or strangely tiring. None of those responses are wrong.

When the body has spent a long time in survival mode, change itself can register as threat. Even positive change. The nervous system may need time to trust that movement does not always mean danger, that thawing does not require rushing.

Theres no requirement to bloom just because the season says so. Regulation often happens in small moments of noticing. A flower on the way to work. A longer exhale. A sense of curiosity instead of pressure.

Spring does not demand transformation. It offers an invitation, gently, at your own pace.

I currently have availability for online therapy sessions.
Email Lisafoxtherapy@proton.me

How does this time of year land in your body?

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