Laura Dee Counselling and Psychotherapy

17/12/2025

16/12/2025

13/12/2025

Thanks everyone! 🎄

12/12/2025

A beautiful gift from a client.

10/12/2025

Love This! ♥️

To all the self employed therapists…

Give yourselves a hearty pat on the back this Christmas…

Because building and running a self-employed business is HARD.

Most of us work alone.

Most of us juggle our practice with a second job.

We do this whilst fitting in the necessary CPD each year to stay up to date with developments.

We are often keeping a social media presence, creating content…

Writing directory profiles, running a website, networking, having personal therapy, supervision, supervising…

I’m actually starting to feel tired just listing all this!

So if you’re finding yourself saying “oh, I’ve only got one client right now…” WELL DONE YOU!

Because the amount of clients we have is not reflective of the amount of hard work that goes into getting that far in the first place.

In effect, you have built a shop from the ground up and are welcoming your first customers…

So take a bow dear therapists and give yourselves the recognition you deserve…

I’m proud of you 🥰



Meme Riverside Counselling Colchesterer

10/12/2025

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06/12/2025

The holidays aren’t merry for everyone.
For many, Christmas can feel heavy — a reminder of loss, loneliness, financial pressure, or memories that hurt more than they heal. 🎄☃️🎁💌

If this season feels hard, please know you’re not alone. You don’t have to be joyful on command. You don’t have to pretend everything is okay. Your feelings are valid, and you deserve compassion — especially from yourself. 🤗

Be gentle with your heart. Reach out if you need support. And if you have the strength to offer kindness to someone else who might be struggling, it can make a world of difference. 💚❤️💚❤️

03/12/2025

I had a beautiful session yesterday with a client and it got me thinking I wonder what is in your playlists, what cds do you have sat in your car, what tapes do you have in the loft or what vinyl do you play on the record player? 💿

Music has always been such an important part of my life. When I was a teenager, I’d love the Friday night discos after watching top of the pops, but for me getting a new CD was the best feeling- I’d sit with that little booklet for hours, reading every lyric, back to back and again and again. I’d memorize the words until they felt like mine — until they became personal.

Some songs didn’t land at first, and that was okay. But then there were the ones that connected instantly, like they were written straight from whatever I was going through. Sometimes I related because the story matched my own… other times, I interpreted the lyrics into the version I *needed* at that moment. Music gave me language when I didn’t have the words yet. It became my freedom, my escape, my way of understanding myself and the world around me.

If I have one regret, it’s that I never pursued singing — I think I would have found a whole new creative outlet in that. But life has a beautiful way of circling back, because my son turned out to be an incredible piano player. Watching him play, hearing the emotion in every note and seeing his confidence grow and grow is amazing… it feels like music found its way into my family. I really want to be remembered for having a home filled with song, sounds, love and connection.

02/12/2025