Oasis Therapy

20/03/2026

A great day in Hove today learning about the Mental Health System as part of my Psychotherapy training. Exploring how to manage Psychological Disorders in the therapy room. Thanks guys, really enjoyed it ❣️

18/03/2026

Meet Bruce. My slightly unhinged mental health companion. He is there, causing chaos on dog walks when I need to decompress. Somehow it works for me 😆

Potential therapy dog in the making?

16/03/2026

My last day a Uckfield College is today and I'll be sad to leave such a wonderful team..But with that comes new opportunities as I'll be opening up my final 2 days at Oasis, my Counselling and Psychotherapy Private Practice.

If you are looking for local counselling support, either online or in-person, get in touch and we can see how we go.

www.oasis-therapy.co.uk

14/03/2026

One of my close friends lost her daughter Scarlett recently, to su***de. Scarlett was a beautiful soul, just 13 years old.

You can imagine the family is broken. I've been shaken too. I've been at a loss on how to help.

With permission, I share this page. It has felt comforting to be able to do something to help, in one of the only ways I know how - Talk.

If you talk, I will listen.

Sometimes, that's enough just to keep going, sometimes it's not. But for me, that's all I know. So I will keep listening, if you keep talking.

❤️‍🩹

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CgDSCYWQV/

Dear friends, family and kind-hearted strangers, With the heaviest of hearts, we’re sharing the … Sally Nursten needs your support for Scarlett Efstathiou

08/03/2026

What a fantastic weekend with Patrick at the Connexus Institute learning about Dream Analysis. 💤

Dreams are a window into our unconscious. They are symbolic and often don't mean what you think they do! Rather than be written off as meaningless, we can use them to help understand our waking world. 🧠

I'm really excited to bring dream analysis into my work! 🙌

🌟 What a fascinating weekend 🌟

02/03/2026

🩷 Showing Up Human: My Promise as a Therapist 🩵

It’s often said that one of the most important parts of effective therapy is the connection with your therapist. Not connection in the sense of friendship, but something deeper — trust. Trust that you can be yourself, and that no matter what shows up, your therapist can hold it.

Over the years during my training, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how that works for me. I keep coming back to the same conclusion:
Therapy only works if I am myself. Truly myself.

How can I expect my clients to be real if I’m not? If connection is central to the work, then being anything other than myself (awkward bits, human bits and all) only gets in the way.

I have had over four years of therapy — close to 200 hours. It started because it was a requirement of my training. It ended with me feeling reluctant to give it up.

In every session I showed up just like my clients do — ready to learn, unpick, and be vulnerable. I have cried (a lot), laughed, and found emotional places I didn’t even know existed. It hasn’t always been easy.

I can’t promise you’ll feel better straight away, or even that therapy will look the way you expect it to. That’s my hope, of course — but your journey will be yours, not mine. So I won’t pretend to know exactly how it will unfold.

What I can promise is this:

I’ll be there.
Every week.
I’ll sit in the sh*t with you.
I’ll listen.
I’ll try to understand alongside you.
I’ll hold whatever emotional weight you need me to hold.
We might laugh.
We might cry.
We might sit in uncertainty.

That’s my promise.

The journey is yours. I’m simply alongside you — holding the map while you decide where to go.

If you’re considering counselling in Uckfield, or online across the UK, this is how I work.

28/02/2026

Not all counsellors are created equal – and choosing the right one matters more than you think.

The right counsellor will not only have the right qualifications, but will also create a space where you feel safe, heard, and genuinely supported. Therapy should feel collaborative, ethical, and grounded in respect – not rushed, pressured, or one-sided.

If you are considering counselling, save this checklist and use it as a guide. You deserve support that feels safe, empowering, and aligned with your needs. 💓

17/02/2026

✅️ Online Counselling
✅️ In Person Counselling (Uckfield)
✅️ Privately owned Therapy Suite 🚜
✅️ Twice Monthly Sessions
✅️ Weekly Sessions
✅️ 60 Minute Sessions (£60)
✅️ 90 Minute Sessions (£90)
✅️ Upcoming Spaces
✅️ Stop when you like

You get the idea 🤣 pop over to my website to register your interest and I'll be in touch ✅️

15/02/2026

There’s nothing harder than not knowing where someone you love is.
My friend’s son, Lyndan Robins, is missing.
Right now the family are just waiting and hoping.
If you can, please share this poster.
Sometimes it’s the smallest reach that makes the biggest difference.
Community matters in moments like this.
Let’s help bring him home safely.

15/02/2026

Laughter in the therapy room 😂

Spoiler alert: yes. Often right alongside the tears.When people think about counselling, they often imagine a quiet room, tissues on the table, and a therapist nodding solemnly. And while that’s sometimes true, therapy can also include something else entirely: laughter.Yes—laughter in therapy is...

09/02/2026

🫶 CONTROL - February Blog 🫶

❤️ Control comes up a lot in the therapy room, and it’s made me think about control in my own life.

🧡 For me, control brings a sense of routine and predictability. If I can stay in control of my work, my personal life, and how I am in relationships, I feel safe. Not safe from harm, necessarily, but safe from emotional wobbles.

💙 Having experienced early trauma, unpredictability can sometimes trigger a first response of panic. That’s okay—I recognise it, I have the resources to deal with it, and when I can, I push myself out of my comfort zone.

🙌 And when I do, it feels amazing. I feel alive, capable, confident. 💪

😳 But sometimes it backfires. I feel overwhelmed, overstimulated, craving the familiar again. And that’s okay too. Because I’m human—and I’ve learned to have compassion for myself.

🤓 Control has an evolutionary advantage. If we can predict the things around us, we can respond quickly and survive. But today, the world has opened up to us in ways it never has before: worldwide news, social media, constant streams of information. Suddenly, there’s a lot to try to predict, a lot to try to control, and it’s exhausting. That’s when the wobbles come—the anxiety, the fear.

💕 For me, the answer is to notice it, switch off some of the news channels when I’m overstimulated, and focus on things I *can* control in a healthy way. The rest—I let go. That’s a form of self-care.

Do I get it right every time? Absolutely not. But I'm willing to keep working on it.

If you want to talk about control in your life, and how to find a balance, I’m all ears. Let’s tackle it together. 🙏