The Yellow Room Therapy

17/07/2025

🎓 Professional update
I’m proud to share that I’ve now completed my MSc in Psychology of Mental Health and Wellbeing, awarded with Merit overall and a Distinction for my dissertation. 🎉🎉

This course has strengthened and deepened my clinical practice. It’s given me space to reflect, refine, and expand my understanding of trauma, mental health, and what it means to offer safe, effective support.

I’ve explored research on loneliness, attachment, and emotional wellbeing through both an academic and therapeutic lens. The learning has already begun to shape how I work and the care I offer clients and supervisees.

Thank you to those who’ve supported and believed in this work. I’m excited to continue growing, and to bring everything I’ve learned into the heart of The Yellow Room Therapy ✨🌻☀️💛

Kristina Hill, MSc
BACP Accredited Counsellor

16/06/2025

Pride Month can bring up a lot.
For some, it’s joy and celebration.
For others, it’s complicated — maybe painful, isolating, or not safe to name out loud.

Therapy is one of the few places where all of that can be held.

You don’t need to explain or justify your identity.
You don’t need to be out to everyone.
You don’t need to fit any box to be welcome here.

In my work, I aim to create a space that’s affirming, reflective and deeply respectful of your lived experience.
Whether you’re exploring identity, navigating family dynamics, healing internalised shame, or just needing a space to breathe — you’re not alone.

You deserve care that doesn’t ask you to shrink or perform.

If you’re looking for a therapist who offers LGBTQ+ affirmative support, you’re welcome to get in touch.

💛 Book a free 15-minute consultation at www.theyellowroomtherapy.co.uk

15/06/2025

🌻 A Father’s Day Message from The Yellow Room Therapy

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Today, some people are celebrating fathers, stepdads, grandads, and other loving male role models. People who show up with kindness and care. People who try.

But I know this day isn’t simple for everyone.

💛 You might be missing someone you loved deeply.

💛 You might be carrying hurt from someone who couldn’t be who you needed them to be.

💛 You might be estranged, healing, or still trying to make sense of your story.

💛 You might be parenting your own children while still learning how to reparent yourself.

If Father’s Day feels heavy, complicated or just quietly uncomfortable, you’re not alone.

If you’ve chosen other kinds of family, or are still working out what love and safety mean to you, that matters too.

In the therapy room, we make space for all of it.

Grief and relief. Longing and anger. Love and loss.

Whether you’re a parent, a grown-up child, or someone walking both paths at once

🌻You are welcome here.
🌻You are enough.
🌻You are not alone.

With warmth
Kristina
The Yellow Room Therapy

13/06/2025

If you made it through this week, I’m proud of you

Whether you showed up, slowed down, held it all together or let yourself fall apart
You made it
That’s enough
You’re enough

Be gentle with yourself this weekend
You don’t have to earn rest

With care
Kristina at The Yellow Room

theyellowroomtherapy@gmail.com
www.theyellowroomtherapy.co.uk

13/06/2025

June is here and with it a natural pause point

Halfway through the year it’s common to feel a quiet pressure to “make progress”
To reflect to compare to wonder if you’re where you should be

But there’s no timeline for healing
No race to feel better or be better
Sometimes the bravest thing we do is keep going — gently imperfectly and in our own way

If you’ve been feeling flat stuck or just tired you’re not alone
It’s okay to ask

• What’s working for me right now
• What am I carrying that’s no longer mine
• What do I want to take into the second half of the year

These are the kinds of questions we explore in therapy — safely at your pace

If this resonates you’re welcome to reach out
I work with adults across the UK offering online and in-person therapy
You can book a free 15 minute consultation at

www.theyellowroomtherapy.co.uk

Take what you need from this post
Save it
Share it
Or let it be the gentle nudge you’ve been waiting for

I’m here when you’re ready 🌼
Kristina

At The Yellow Room, we believe in a trauma-informed and client-centered approach.

12/06/2025

To the parents of neurodivergent children—especially as summer approaches

This season can bring pressure to do more, be more, plan more
But your child’s needs are unique
Your rhythm is enough

You don’t have to compare your summer to anyone else’s
Connection, safety and small wins count for everything

At The Yellow Room, I offer gentle, grounded support including:
• Parenting Happily sessions
• SEN parent support groups
• 1:1 sessions for children (online and in person)

You don’t have to do this alone

There are also brilliant local organisations offering support:
Guiding Stars – therapeutic groups, emotional regulation, and 1:1 support for neurodivergent children
www.guidingstars.net

Neurodiversity Action – community, advocacy and creative projects for neurodivergent young people and families
www.neurodiversityaction.org

If you’d like to explore working together:
theyellowroomtherapy@gmail.com
www.theyellowroomtherapy.co.uk

10/06/2025

Twelve Steps Toward Healing
Reflections from my work in trauma and addiction therapy

The Twelve Steps, first outlined by Alcoholics Anonymous in 1939, have shaped how many people understand recovery. Not just from addiction, but from disconnection, loss, and trauma. In my work, I support people navigating trauma and addiction, often at the same time. The overlap is well-evidenced and significant.

Addiction is rarely about a lack of willpower. More often, it’s about survival. A way to manage what felt overwhelming or unbearable when there weren’t safer options available. Trauma-informed therapy recognises this. Recovery is not just about stopping a behaviour. It’s about rebuilding safety, trust, and connection — with self, body, and others.

These reflections are based on the heart of the Twelve Step tradition, shaped through a compassionate, psychologically informed lens.

This process isn’t about getting it right. It’s about getting honest. It’s about healing in ways that are sustainable, meaningful, and rooted in your values.

At The Yellow Room Therapy, I work with people exploring recovery in its many forms. Whether you’re working a formal 12 Step programme or creating your own healing path, this is a space where your story is welcome. You don’t have to have it all figured out to start.

Kristina Grace Hill
BACP Accredited Therapist
Specialist in Trauma & Addictions
The Yellow Room Therapy
www.theyellowroomtherapy.com

10/06/2025

Feeling stuck in fight, flight, freeze or fawn? You’re not alone.

When your nervous system is overwhelmed, life can feel exhausting, disconnected, or like you’re always on edge. Therapy can help bring you back to safety—slowly, gently, and at your own pace.

I offer trauma-informed support that helps regulate your nervous system and reconnect with yourself in a way that feels manageable and kind.

Sessions available online or in-person in Tadley.

You can reach me at theyellowroomtherapy@gmail.com
Learn more at www.theyellowroomtherapy.co.uk
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09/06/2025

You go before me. ✨

Lately I’ve been thinking about how hard it is to trust in something bigger when you’re right in the middle of things. When nothing feels clear, when you’re still waiting, still figuring it out.

Psychologically, our minds are wired to seek control and predictability. When we can’t see the full picture, it can feel unsafe. Especially if you’ve been through trauma or had to rely on yourself for a long time, uncertainty can feel unbearable.

But trusting in a Higher Power can offer something different. Not certainty, but steadiness. A sense that you’re not carrying it all alone. That there is meaning here, even if you don’t have the full story yet.

For me, believing that something greater goes ahead of me helps me soften. It gives me permission to stop pushing for all the answers right now. It reminds me that I am not behind. I’m not failing. I’m just in the middle.

This kind of faith doesn’t mean bypassing real feelings. It’s not about pretending things are fine. It’s about letting go of the belief that I have to do it all alone, or know everything right now in order to keep going.

If you’re in that space, I see you. I’ve been there too. And I believe there’s a way through this, even if you can’t see it yet. 💛

Kristina Grace Hill
BACP Accredited Therapist
The Yellow Room Therapy
www.theyellowroomtherapy.com

08/06/2025

Struggling to connect in your relationship?
You’re not alone. Life gets loud, communication breaks down, patterns repeat, distance grows.

Couples therapy can help you:
• Rebuild trust
• Improve communication
• Understand each other more deeply
• Break unhelpful cycles

I offer a warm, trauma-informed space for couples of all kinds, grounded in attachment and emotional safety.

Online and in-person in Stockport
To book: theyellowroomtherapy@gmail.com
More info: www.theyellowroomtherapy.co.uk

07/06/2025

Support for Children & Teens This Summer 💛🌻

Young people can struggle when routine ends and support drops away.

I offer gentle, creative therapy for children and teens—supporting emotional regulation, anxiety, self-esteem and identity.

Whether it’s big transitions or quiet inner storms, therapy can be an anchor.
Online or in-person, through summer and beyond.

You don’t have to figure it out alone.

Contact me today for more information

www.theyellowroomtherapy.co.uk

06/06/2025

Is it ADHD… or is it trauma?

This is a question I hear often—and it makes so much sense.

When we’ve lived through trauma, especially relational or developmental trauma, our nervous systems adapt. We become alert, sensitive, reactive, shut down—or sometimes, all of these at once.

And when someone is neurodivergent—living with ADHD, for example—those same patterns can show up too.
It’s not about misdiagnosis or confusion, but about overlap.

Some shared experiences include:
• Struggling to focus, or feeling “scattered”
• Forgetting things easily (even things that matter)
• Emotional intensity or shutdown
• Trouble starting tasks or finishing them
• Feeling like you’re “too much” or “not enough”
• Navigating overwhelm in relationships and daily life

So, is it ADHD? Is it trauma?
Often, the answer is: you don’t need to choose.
You’re allowed to be neurodivergent, trauma-aware, and worthy of care all at once.

In therapy, we make space for your full story.
We look at what’s shaped your nervous system—how it’s protected you, and how it might be asking for more support now.

No shame. No fixing.
Just compassion, understanding, and the gentle process of learning to feel safe in your own rhythms.

If this resonates, reach out. I’d be honoured to walk alongside you.

With warmth,
Kristina
The Yellow Room Therapy