Norwood Alternative Health

21/07/2025

✨ Welcome Ellie Butler to Norwood Alternative Health! ✨

We’re thrilled to introduce Ellie, a registered midwife and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), who brings warmth, wisdom, and a wealth of experience to our Thame clinic.

From expert breastfeeding support and birth preparation to baby massage classes, Ellie offers compassionate, personalised care for families at every stage of their journey into parenthood.

Come and meet her at our clinic in the heart of Thame 💛

📞 Book now: 01844 212 829
🌐 Learn more: www.becomingmama.co.uk

27/06/2025

The way you protect yourself, respond to conflict, or avoid vulnerability isn’t random, it was learned. Often long ago.

At the time, those patterns helped you feel safe or accepted.

But over time, they can become limiting: blocking connection, confidence, or growth.

Therapy offers the space to pause, reflect, and ask:

“Do I still need this? Or is it time to try something different?”

Meet our psychotherapy team at Norwood Alternative Health:

🧠 Jack Norwood – Pluralistic Therapist
Helping you reframe limiting beliefs, improve communication, and navigate life with greater self-trust and confidence.

🪷 Jackie Longwell – Transactional Analysis Psychotherapist
Supporting you in uncovering the deeper scripts that shape how you relate to others, and yourself.

🌿 Sophie Miller – Psychotherapist & Adult ADHD Specialist
Working with neurodiverse clients to explore patterns with clarity and kindness, offering tailored support and practical tools.

Therapy isn’t about blaming the past, it’s about making intentional choices in the present.

📍Sessions in Thame or online. Reach out to see what’s possible.

24/06/2025

Welcome to a space where depth meets gentleness 🌿

Erica Lowe brings 14 years of integrative expertise, blending person-centred counselling, Reiki, shamanic and angelic healing, to support your whole wellbeing.

Here at Norwood Alternative Health, Erica offers:

- A warm, empathic environment for processing emotions like grief, anxiety, overwhelm

- Counselling sessions tailored to you, available face-to-face or online with a free initial call

- Deep, gentle energy healing: Reiki, shamanic & angelic, that works through your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual bodies

Whether navigating life transitions, challenging beliefs, or simply seeking harmony, Erica tailors each session to your unique journey.

➡️ Ready to begin? Book your first session with Erica at Norwood Alternative Health today. Send us a DM or call 01844 212 829

20/06/2025

Sometimes we think we’ve moved on but our bodies tell a different story.

Fatigue, overwhelm, anxiety, and emotional numbness are often signs that we’re still holding on to unresolved energy, even if we can’t always name it.

Energy healing works gently, beneath the surface, to help you let go of what no longer belongs in your system.

✨ Erica Lowe – Reiki, Angelic & Shamanic Energy Healer
Erica’s intuitive, multi-dimensional healing approach supports emotional release, energetic balance, and spiritual reconnection. Her sessions often bring clarity, lightness, and deep inner peace, without the need to re-tell your story.

🌸 Sarah Clark – Traditional Acupuncturist & Fertility Specialist
Sarah works with the body’s energetics and functions to restore flow, reduce stress, and support emotional and reproductive wellbeing for optimal fertility health. Especially beneficial for those feeling stuck, heavy, or disconnected in their fertility journey.

Healing doesn’t always need words.
Sometimes it simply needs permission to feel, release, and return to yourself.

📍Book energy healing or acupuncture sessions at our Thame clinic. DM us to find your next step.

16/06/2025

Difficult emotions are part of being human. But when anxiety or low mood take hold, it can feel like something’s wrong with you.

Therapy helps you understand what those feelings are really trying to say, and how to meet them with compassion instead of self-judgement.

At Norwood Alternative Health, our experienced psychotherapists offer safe, supportive spaces to explore your inner world:

🧠 Jack Norwood – Pluralistic Therapist
Helps you challenge self-limiting beliefs, rebuild confidence, and feel more at ease in your relationships and within yourself.

🪷 Jackie Longwell – Transactional Analysis Psychotherapist
Works with you to understand the patterns behind your thoughts and behaviours, helping you rewrite the script you’ve been living by.

🌿 Sophie Miller – Psychotherapist & Adult ADHD Specialist
Supports neurodiverse adults navigating anxiety, emotional regulation, and identity with warmth and clarity.

You don’t have to push difficult feelings away.
You can learn to sit with them and move forward, gently.

📍Sessions available in Thame or online. Reach out to begin.

13/06/2025

Meet Sophie Miller, a psychotherapeutic counsellor at Norwood Alternative Health, offering a unique blend of Psychosynthesis and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT).

Sophie’s approach is compassionate and integrative, drawing from her personal journey of recovery from stress-related burnout and an adult ADHD diagnosis.

With over 12 years of experience supporting individual wellbeing, Sophie specialises in:

Neurodiversity: Assisting clients in understanding and embracing their unique cognitive profiles.

Stress and Burnout: Providing tools to navigate and recover from overwhelming life pressures.

Anxiety and Depression: Offering strategies to manage and alleviate persistent emotional challenges.

Life Transitions: Guiding individuals through significant changes with clarity and resilience.

Sophie believes in helping clients move beyond automatic patterns, encouraging authentic living and self-discovery. Her sessions are available in-person at our town centre location in Thame.

📍 To learn more or book a session with Sophie, visit www.solephilosophy.com or contact us directly.

10/06/2025

Your body holds deep wisdom. But stress, trauma, and everyday life can disrupt your natural flow of energy, leaving you feeling disconnected, heavy, stuck or grappling with other diseases and disorders.

At Norwood Alternative Health, we offer deeply restorative healing modalities that work with the body’s own intelligence:

🌿 Erica Lowe – Reiki, Angelic Healing & Shamanic Energy Work
Erica’s sessions help clear energetic blockages, restore emotional balance, and reconnect you with your inner calm and clarity. Ideal for times of transition, fatigue, grief or emotional overwhelm.

🌸 Sarah Clark – Traditional Acupuncturist & Specialist in Fertility and Gynaecological Health
Using acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine, Sarah supports hormonal balance, reproductive health, and emotional wellbeing, helping women reconnect with their cycles and bodies in a grounded, natural way.

Energy healing isn’t about fixing, it’s about remembering what’s already within you.

✨ Appointments available in Thame on request. DM us to find the right support for you.

06/06/2025

Therapy isn’t only for the moments when everything feels too much. It can be a space for self-discovery, personal growth, and gently unpicking the patterns that no longer serve you.

At Norwood Alternative Health, our specialist therapists support a wide range of needs and approaches:

🧠 Jack Norwood, Pluralistic Therapist
Helping you manage self-limiting beliefs, improve communication, and rebuild confidence; so you can move forward feeling more aligned and empowered.

🪷 Jackie Longwell, Transactional Analysis Psychotherapist
Exploring how your early experiences shape the way you think, feel, and relate today, offering insight and lasting change.

🌿 Sophie Miller, Psychotherapist and Adult ADHD Specialist
Offering tailored support for neurodiverse clients, with a compassionate, strength-based approach.

Whether you’re navigating overwhelm, low self-esteem, anxiety, or simply want to understand yourself more deeply, therapy can help.

📍In-person in Thame or available online. Get in touch to explore what’s right for you.

05/06/2025

Have you thought about Transactional Analysis as a type of therapy that could help you?

Jackie Longwell, our Transactional Analysis Psychotherapist here at Norwood Alternative Health, brings warmth, depth, and years of experience to her work, helping individuals explore the “why” behind how they think, feel, and relate.

Transactional Analysis (TA) is a powerful model of psychotherapy that offers practical insight into your patterns, behaviours, and communication styles, which are often shaped in childhood but playing out in adult life.

TA can help you to:
✨ Recognise self-sabotaging habits
✨ Develop healthier boundaries
✨ Heal relationship wounds
✨ Make sense of overwhelming emotions
✨ Reclaim a sense of control in your life

Whether you’re struggling with anxiety, relationship breakdowns, low self-worth or simply want to understand yourself more deeply, TA offers a structured but compassionate path to lasting change.

🪷 Sessions with Jackie are available in our Thame town centre clinic.

To find out more or book a session, visit the link in our bio or call 01844 212 829. You can also send us a DM.

03/06/2025

🌿 👋 What kind of support are you looking for?

Meet the team at Norwood Alternative Health.
We provide comprehensive care that supports your physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing, all in one welcoming and private space in Thame town centre.

Our experienced team includes:

💬 Jack Norwood – Pluralistic Psychotherapist
🗣 Jackie Longwell – Transactional Analysis Psychotherapist
🌿 Sarah Clark – Acupuncture & TCM (and fertility specialist)
✨ Erica Lowe – Energy Healing (Reiki, angelic and shamanic)
🧠 Sophie Miller – Adult ADHD Specialist

Whether you're managing stress, navigating life transitions, supporting fertility, or looking to rebalance your health, we’re here to help.

📍Thame, Oxfordshire
📞 01844 212 829
🌐 www.norwoodalternativehealth.com

Many of our psychotherapists and healers can also work remotely. Whether you are looking for in-person or online support, give us a call or visit our website for more information about how our specialist therapists may be able to help you 🫶

21/05/2025

Ever wondered why you keep falling into the same relationship patterns? Or why you sometimes react like a child, even as an adult?

You may find Transactional Analysis may help. TA is a powerful therapeutic approach used by our specialist psychotherapist, Jackie Longwell at our clinic in Thame town centre. Jackie helps you understand the why behind their behaviours and emotional responses.

TA explores the three parts of our personality:

👶 Child – our feelings, memories, and experiences from childhood
🧑 Adult – our rational, present-moment thinking
👩‍👧 Parent – the rules, values, and voices we've inherited

By understanding these internal “voices” and the transactions we have with others, TA gives you the tools to break unhealthy cycles, improve communication, and build healthier relationships, with others and yourself. 💛

🛋️ Jackie Longwell brings a warm, down-to-earth style to her psychotherapy sessions, using TA to support clients with anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship struggles and more.

📤 For more info, don't hesitate to contact Jackie at jackie.longwell@me.com and she can explain a little more about how how TA could help you.

17/05/2025

Do you find your wearable health tech (Apple Watch, Oura ring etc) helpful or a hindrance?

TREND WATCH: Wearable Fertility Tech – Empowering or Energetically Disruptive?

In today's digital age, wearable devices like Oura Rings, Tempdrop, and Mira hormone analysers have become popular tools for tracking fertility, offering data-driven insights into ovulation, sleep patterns, and hormonal fluctuations.

But while these devices promise enhanced control over reproductive health, it's so important to understand their energetic and physiological impacts.

🧬 Scientific Insights on EMFs and RF Radiation:

Wearable tech operates using Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and other wireless communications, emitting low-level EMFs and RF radiation. Emerging research suggests potential concerns:

> A systematic review highlighted that RF-EMF exposure might negatively impact male fertility, affecting s***m concentration and motility .

> Another study indicated that EMF exposure could disrupt reproductive endocrine hormones and embryonic development .

> Research also points to increased oxidative stress and DNA damage in reproductive tissues due to prolonged EMF exposure.

⚕️ From a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Perspective:

These wearables are often worn on the wrist or finger, areas rich in meridian points connected to some of the most vital organs whose energetics are crucial for fertility health:

> Heart Meridian: Governs emotional balance and hormonal regulation.

> Pericardium Meridian: Protects the heart and influences reproductive functions.

> Lung Meridian: Associated with Qi (energy) and immunity.

Continuous stimulation or pressure on these points, especially during rest, may disrupt the natural flow of Qi, potentially affecting sleep quality, stress levels, and hormonal balance - all critical factors in fertility.

💡 My Take:

Wearable fertility tech can be a valuable tool when used mindfully and intermittently. However, over-reliance may lead to:

> Increased anxiety from constant monitoring.

> Disconnection from innate bodily cues.

> Potential energetic imbalances and physiological disruptions.

Consider a 'tech detox': try removing wearables during sleep for a couple of weeks. Pay attention to changes in your sleep quality, stress levels, and menstrual cycle. Reconnecting with your body's natural rhythms can offer some real profound insights.

And remember, fertility health is not solely about data points; it's also about energetic harmony, balance, and moreover, your attunement to your body's wisdom.

To discuss this further, join the private group Naturally Fertile and let me know your thoughts on any tech you use to monitor your body www.facebook.com/groups/naturallyfertilewithsarahclark

Lisa Johnson