V C Counselling Cornwall

15/04/2026

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Healing isn't always comfortable, but that doesn't mean you're doing it 'wrong' or going backwards.

24/03/2026

19/01/2026

It's so vital in working with clients who have been rendered powerless through , or subject to systematic disempowerment, that therapists do not exercise their inherent power unethically.

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23/11/2025

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23/11/2025

The heart can be a bit of a hoarder...

09/10/2025

Working with su***de is working with distress. The aim is not just to save a life but to restore the hope that life can be lived without such distress making it intolerable.

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***deprevention

05/10/2025

The physiological freeze response (the 'red zone' of the trauma traffic light) is a very common, evolutionarily-driven, instinctive reaction to such as child sexual abuse, and it renders us powerless.

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01/10/2025

I pushed my into dissociative parts of my personality, excluding it from consciousness. Healing has come from befriending these disowned parts of me, developing the self-compassion that I lived all my life without.

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