Ivan Broad Counselling, EMDR & Breathwork Therapy

29/01/2026

Hope to see you on Sunday 😃

20/01/2026

18/12/2025

Coming into stillness through meditation allows us to see, feel, notice how we are within ourselves. Without this awareness we are missing out on so much. So much because we are precious, we are valuable and we are part of the natural world. 🙏💜

wellbeing

14/12/2025

We have so much depth to us as human beings and most of our depth and wisdom remains hidden from us unless we turn our attention inward.

Closing our eyes and taking our attention into the body allows us access to that inner wisdom. EMDR can give us awareness to the connections between our thoughts and the emotions, sensations, stuckness or flow within areas of our body. The connections and channels between brain and body, brain and organs, brain and tissue.

Breathwork, when working with subtle breathing practice can offer similar access between the brain and the body, organs and wisdom. I know because I have worked with both Breathwork for the last 6 years and EMDR for 7 years.

The more I search inwardly the more I release myself from the constraints of narrow mindedness and limitation. Feeling heaviness, stuckness, suppression transforming as it moves through the channels of the body is tremendously freeing.

A deeply intimate and profound relationship begins to develop with yourself the more you do this and you do shed old versions of yourself again and again.

I could not have written this post 10 years ago because I knew nothing of the journey that is possible. Now I know and want to help others know that the path exists. 🙏💜

05/12/2025

I had forgotten about this podcast I did with Janey Lee Grace. You light remember her as part of the Steve Wright radio show. She now celebrates and advocates for am alcohol free life and invited me to talk about how Breathwork can help with the journey of staying sober.

Breathwork was certainly a key aspect of me stopping all alcohol intake in 2019.

Alcohol Free Life - Janey Lee Grace · Episode

05/12/2025

It is the final breathing circle of the year this Sunday 7th December at Checkley Village hall.

I’m looking forward to facilitating it once again and wonder who will be filling these spaces 😃

30/11/2025

Talking therapy can be part of your therapy journey.
Breathwork can also be part of your therapy journey.
Both valuable, one top down, one a bottom up way of bringing about changes.

21/11/2025

The nice spacious room in Barton where I work Two days per week.

21/11/2025

It can often be the simple things that make the most difference.

The sight of something that makes your heart melt, soften, skip a beat. A smell, a breeze in hot weather or walking into a warm space out of the cold winter day.

I am enjoying the smell of wild orange in my diffuser today as I look out at the frozen grass and bare trees. The contrast can help us appreciate where we are in this moment.

12/11/2025

Breathwork creates space between your thoughts and can bring insights and fragments of lost memory back into your awareness.

I have had this happen many times when breathing consciously with a connected breath. The benefit has been some relief for my nervous system as my mind was able to relax from the tension of not knowing to remembering.

Re-member is a reference to coming back to the body, the body revealed what the mind had lost and the nervous system settled when the mind found what it had been searching for.

To go through a process like this is amazing. To know the mechanics of it is secondary to feeling it all happen.

31/10/2025

I am running my breathing circle this weekend if you feel inspired to join the group. 10am to 12:30pm.

Since practicing and training in Breathwork my energy levels have increased, I lifted out of depression and my capacity and vitality for life have grown immensely.

It has worked wonders for me, maybe it will for you 🙏💜