One 2 One - You Matter, counselling, coaching, consultancy

01/10/2025

👉 It is my birthday today. I did not think I would be on crutches, in daily pain after an ACL injury and pending surgical intervention soon on my birthday or at all this year!

Sometimes, life throws curve - balls you were not expecting, or out of your control. However, there are ways that which can help us in difficult times.

💥 We can learn to react differently.
💥 We can understand our body, mind, spirit, thoughts
💥 We can reframe our thoughts
💥 We can challenge negative perspectives or appraisals about ourselves, even in pain.
💥 We can observe good things in the world.
💥 We can see things from different perspectives.
💥 We can learn new skills.
💥 We can use distraction techniques
💥 We can problem solve in a different way.

👉 ❤️ 🎶 🎷 I love music. I may be not able to dance downstairs, but I can dance inside and music puts a smile on my face.

👉 There are things I can do in my 'circle of control', despite my pain, my fears and worries.

What can you do differently, in your circle of control?

Put your comments in chat below 👇

💥 😊 Or, if you need help in these areas, drop me a DM.

💥 😊 Or email us at hello@one2oneyoumatter.com

05/09/2025

One 2 One you Matter well being services for children and young people (www.one2oneyoumatter.com or email us at hello@one2oneyoumatter.com)

Today, I had the great pleasure of teaching a young person about 'Flight and fight response to the 'body' and ' mind' as we discussed her emotions and how to start to regulate herself.

😊 Session 1- the young person is already learning! Yippee! She sent me her " Mr blob" of what happens in her mind and in her thoughts when she is anxious, after we discussed in in our session. The young person showed me her 'mind homework' and learning. Good job.

😊 Imagine what happens with her development with me in 12 or 20 weeks? Yippee, I can't wait to see her progress. I love seeing the changes to young people's well being, once they understand their anxiety and low ,mood. It makes me happy.

At 'One 2 One you Matter' :

🦋 We love working with young people.
🦋 We have worked with young people for 25 years plus.
🦋 We have specialities in supporting young people and teenager mental health and well being and nursing.
🦋 We are child and family focused.
🦋 We co-ordinate care.
🦋 We solve home and work and school problems,
🦋 We get to the root cause of the problems for families
🦋 We are trauma informed
🦋 We help lots of children and parents 😊
🦋 We work with and in schools, communities and work places, universities and colleges.
🦋 We make a difference and impact on children, teens and family lives.
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30/05/2025

❤️ I am honoured to have won this award below:

👉 "One 2 One You Matter
Best Young Persons Mental Health Support Service 2025 - West Midlands
GHP Mental Health Awards - 2025"

👉 "I work tirelessly to provide an excellent service for children and families in UK and Birmingham and surrounding areas".

👉 I provide a non judgemental therapeutic well being service to children and families.

👉 I offering low intensity, high intensity therapy for young people and adults.

👉 Reducing YOUR stress, anxiety.

👉 Increasing YOUR self esteem and confidence.

👉 Using EVIDENCE based practice.

👉 Working with CHILDREN, TEENS & ADULTS.

👉 Holistic care and treatment plans.

👉 Rescilience plans.

👉 Child/ young person friendly resources and adapted for individual need.

👉 I provide alternative coaching, mentoring, lifestyle changes and management of long term conditions.

👉 I provide family support, guidance, education, evidence based research and practice.

👉 I offer 1:1 therapy.

👉 I offer Parent training.

❤️ Young people and adults evaluate my services. highly. I was blessed to receive this feedback from a young man's dad, whilst they were on holiday in Belgium, as follows :🤩

Feedback from his dad;

" Hi Sarah, just to give you an update, as we have been away for half term in Belgium.

Jayan had a meltdown on holiday, but was able to do the 'finger breathing' you taught him and also be able to share with me his worries from the 'worry jar'.

I was super proud of him, as he took himself away for a while, was practicing the techniques you taught him. He then came back and won me at a pool game!

So proud of him 'thankyou', as Jayan is listening to your adventures ce and I can see it is working.

See you next week

David ".

👉 The above brought blessings to my heart.
👉 I am a paediatric nurse.
👉 I am a Specialist Community Nurse in School nursing.
👉 I am an accredited Psychotherapist too.

👉 I put children and families at the centre for f what I do.

If we can help your child or you or family members, then send an email Sarah to hello@one2oneyoumatter.com

10/10/2024

I am more of a villa fan, sorry blues, but, this little video message is still the same.

You are not alone.

10/10/2024

🙂 Here's hoping you all have a stress free day.

However, if things are tough today, maybe you could:

1. Make a list of key objectives and priorities?
2. Brain storm or brain dump ideas.
3. Pace yourself. Take a break.
4. Encourage one another
5. Support distress at work. Offer help.
6. Offer hope.
7. Listen to others.
8. Highlight your ideas too.
9. Be patient with yourself and talk kindly to yourself on bad days.
10. Plan something that is a nice thing to do at the end of your working day.

👉Thanks for all your support everyone. I am off to do a Q&A session this morning.

👉 I will be having a public health stand to support awareness of 'World Mental Health day'. Come and say "hi" if you're in the Erdington area?

👉 You are welcome to attend at St Barnabas church today Come and say "hi".

This is in the aim to support local people in Sutton/ Erdington area today with their health and well being needs and address any questions and offer support and guidance.
In support and with Birmingham MIND.

❤️ Have a great day everyone.

❤️ Monitor your mind , body and spirit today. Nurture you and de-stress today and try every day.

❤️ Reach out if and when you need support.

Sarah O'Sullivan
Nurse and CBT Therapist
hello@one2oneyoumatter.com
07407473735

19/09/2024

👉 Sometimes in our busy lives, it is hard to capture moments of beauty, stillness so we can breathe and be with our thoughts for a while.

👉 However, mindful moments of quiet, can help us to feel calm and supports our nervous system.

👉 Mindful breathing helps us to breathe deeply from our diaphragm.

👉 Mindful moments help us to have peace. Improving our cognitive function and repair.

👉 We also get vitamin D from sunlight and see all the beautiful colours around us.

What's not to like?

This is one of my favourite moments, near to where I live. Where is your favourite mindful spot?

senses # guidance .

15/08/2024

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15/08/2024

💤 SLEEP tips for teens and parents.....

Often, as it is the summer holidays🏝️ 🌞 routines and boundaries can go a bit awire.

👉 Sometimes, we need to have fun and enjoy ourselves throughout the summer break. FACT.

👉 However, persistent poor sleep 💤 can affect our mood. We can feel more irritable, more 'edgy', more ' fidegety' and often this means we can toss and turn at night, worry before bed or during the day, as we have not processed our emotions.

👉💡 This leads to poor work, home, school or university life as our ability to cope lessons, when we have had poor sleep.

🌞 I had a lovely therapy session today with a tween and her mum, we were discussing all things SLEEP.

Here are a few tips:

💡 Reducing caffeine before bed.

💡 Regular sleep time and morning waking time helps the Circadian rhythmn.

💡 Soft music, reading, starting the process of switching off gadgets and TV 2 hours before sleep (which is hard for tweens,teens, parents).

💡Teens need 8-10 hours of sleep per night for their well-being. More than we think!

💡Teens often have a natural tendency to stay up late due to their changing biological clocks, chatting to mates on phones, googling, tick tock etc. we need to support and monitor this.

💡Obligations like early school start times, homework, extra curricular activities, and social activities can make it hard for teens to get enough sleep.

👉Therefore, good sleep hygiene is really important.

👉 phones, phones, glorious phones!!!! limit screen time, track snap chat, put on parental controls, phones away at a certain time, away from headspace, in a drawer. It is not easy, but it , can really help improve 'teen sleep quality' and improve their overall health.

💡Indeed these tips can help adults too.......!

If it is all too much and you need some guidance, come and chat with me and find out more about me helping you and your teen/ tween with sleep.

👉 The mum today was brave.

👉 Maybe book into see me for a 1:1 in clinic, I maybe able to help?

👉 Or come and join other mums, listening to how we can help tweens and teens with their health, well being and sleep and other topics to help their mental health and well being.

👉 Speak to Sarah.

hello@one2oneyoumatter.com
www.one2oneyoumatter.com
SMS text 07407473735

P.S. after writing about sleep, I am off for a power nap! 🥱

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Life's

04/08/2024

🪴🌼🍂🍁🌹💐🌲🪺⛰️......

NATURE is such a healer....

🦋 Reminding us that we are all such small creatures and there is a bigger picture perhaps?

🦋 Nature keeps me grounded.

🦋 Nature restores my soul.

🦋 I love to see different animals in their natural habitats, from cows, birds, insects and I love to look and smell flowers, observe swaying trees in the breeze and watch the ripples of water on lakes and streams.

🦋 Nature help me to stop, pause and reflect for a moment. Does it do that for you too?

🦋 Nature helps me, my patients, my friends and my family.

My Acronym for Nature is:

N- Natural
A -Awesome
T- Tranquility
U- Underestimated
R- Real
E -Evolving

👉 How would you describe nature?

👉 What would your acronym for nature be?

👉 When did you last STOP, PAUSE, REST and RENEW in nature?

👉 Do you think nature helps your health, mind and well being?

👉 I would love to hear your thoughts. What does nature mean to you?

👉 I hope you like my little nature photos taken over this weekend?

❤️🦋 Have an awesome week ahead.

29/07/2024

❤️ Can you have courage this week, to do something different?

❤️ Can you try and think differently about an event or person or situation?

❤️ Can you take brave steps towards your goals and ambitions this week?

❤️ Can you " Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway" ? (as Susan Jeffries quotes in her books).

In life, it is not always easy.....

🤔 Sometimes we get scared.

🤔 Sometimes we shy away from things due to our fears or past hurts.

🤔 Sometimes other people think they are better than us, try to make us feel bad, or say unkind things.

🤔 This can then make us feel sad, hurt, angry, frustrated and it can lower our self worth.

🤔 We can then lose our confidence.

People who hurt others, are often hurting themselves inside and are actually insecure and often in a bad place themselves.

? Otherwise - why would that person or people choose to be mean or dismissive or disrespectful to another person?

👉 So, this week can you change the polarity around?

👉 Can you do something different?

👉 Can you be more flexible in your thinking?

👉 Can you take that courageous baby step no matter how small, or that great leap of faith and step forward in hope, for a fresh start to reach your goals?

Baby steps are enough....