Fresh Leaf Counselling

17/12/2025

🌟 When a client reflects on how much they’ve achieved, I’m reminded that therapy isn’t about being ‘fixed’: it’s about being supported while they go away after our sessions to do the work.
So much growth in one year, and it belongs to them. Excited to see what the next year of growth brings! 🌟

17/12/2025

Problems shout.
Possibilities whisper.
Which one you listen to is a daily choice.

17/12/2025

🎄 Are you finding the festive period stressful? Are you carrying the baggage of your past trauma? 💼

Here - in slow mo - I am showing you the “Somatic Swing”… it’s another Regulator (for your toolbox) 🧰

🌟 The Somatic Swing works through rhythm and repetition. Gentle bilateral movement, moving your arms side to side, sends predictable sensory input to the nervous system, supporting vagal tone and helping the brain re-orient to safety. When the body feels safe enough, tension can soften and regulation becomes possible, without needing words. 🌟

Research suggests that even doing this practice once per week can vastly improve vagal tone: what this means in reality is it improves your reactions to things you go through day to day. In cases of trauma, it reduces hyper vigilance and resets the body.

Give it a go guys. If you like it and find it useful, give this post a wee comment or a like! ❤️ 👍

15/12/2025

Sleep struggles are often a sign of an overloaded mind. In therapy, we offload stress, explore patterns keeping you awake, and review sleep hygiene tools to support deeper, more restorative rest 💤 🥱

15/12/2025

🎄 Christmas doesn’t need to be perfect to be meaningful. When we push ourselves to do everything, every tradition, every expectation, every ‘should’, burnout quietly follows, sometimes your body lets you know by becoming dysregulated or you become vulnerable to illness. A kind reminder from a therapist: doing less can actually let you feel more. Rest is not ruining Christmas. It’s protecting you. 🎄

15/12/2025

15/12/2025

Have you ever found yourself doing this in bed? ✨

Crickiting: that gentle, repetitive movement of the feet: is more than a habit. It’s a form of self-regulation.

Rhythmic movement sends predictable sensory input to the brain, which can help shift the nervous system out of fight-or-flight and toward safety. It supports vagal tone, releases excess activation, and helps the body settle without needing words.

So when your feet start to move on their own, it’s not restlessness: it’s regulation.

Your body is always listening. And often, it already knows how to help. 🦋

12/12/2025

Therapy is often described as “helping,” but what I see every day is clients helping themselves.

I may guide, support, and hold space, but the courage, consistency, and growth?
That’s all them.

Grateful to witness it. Grateful to be trusted with it. Grateful for this beautiful feedback and to have been a part of the journey. 💡 🛣️

10/12/2025

Feeling grateful for the kind words from a wonderful client today. It’s an honour to walk alongside people on their journey. 💛✨