Amber Bates Therapy

29/01/2025

If you are interested in working with me I am happy to answer your enquiries via messenger, email or a free 20-minute phone consultation.
To book your initial free 20-min session please text rather than ring on 07935 664648 or email kinstara@gmail.com and I will endeavour to reply within 48 hours.
To learn a little bit more about me here is my website: www.amberbates.net

06/09/2024

Applications for the Autumn/Winter round of Menopause Thearpy Group will be closing September 12th.

If you have been pondering whether this might be a space for you to feel supported through your peri/menopause journey now is the time to get in touch., I'm really happy to answer questions.

Would be lovely to have you there 🍂

02/09/2024

As I feel the change in myself as we slip into Autumn here in Wales, I am reminded of how the outer seasons can be a wonderful support and reassurance for the changing of our own inner seasons as well.

I see the process of perimenopause and menopause akin to a transformational autumn and winter phase in our life's journey.

🍂 There is a call to slow down and turn our attention inward as the days grow shorter.

🍂 Energy that was focused outward in our summer is no longer sustainable. We must become wise about where we choose to put our energy now.

🍂 Trees know they must let go of their leaves to conserve energy for the winter. This mirrors our own need to let go of what is no longer serving us, this can be both liberating and intertwined with grief.

🍂 We must learn to be with our own darkness, wild winds and inner storms

🕯️ As we move into our winter phase there is a very real need for stillness and quiet as we rest and reflect on our lives and our changing needs

🕯️ All may look the same on the surface but deep in our earth there is much life and transformation happening

🌱 The best part is often left out, that after the autumn and winter journey there is another spring, new light and growth appear from the compost created. A sustainable life that reflects and supports the deep change in you and the life you want to live as you move into your mature years.

This Autumn I am offering a menopause therapy group. A safe, held space where you can explore your experience with others.

Group runs for 12 weeks/ 8 spaces available
Fridays 1pm-3pm
Sept 20th - Dec 13th
Canastan Bridge Wellbeing (nr Narbeth)
£40 weekly

for booking or queries 07935664648 or kinstara@gmail.com

https://www.amberbates.net/events/

19/08/2024

Navigating the changes of perimenopause and menopause can bring up all sorts of issues and difficulties you may have thought you had left behind.

What's maybe less spoken about is that it is also common for old traumas to rise to the surface in need of healing. t’s a life transition that asks us to take care of unfinished business so we can move on with freedom into the next phase of our life.

Group therapy creates a collective wisdom that emerges, allowing us to experience menopause in a particularly empowering way that isn’t possible in 1:1 therapy or going it alone.

Spaces still available. I would love you to join if you feel called.

Group runs for 12 weeks/ 8 spaces available

Fridays 1pm-3pm
Sept 20th - Dec 13th
Canastan Bridge Wellbeing (nr Narbeth)
£40 weekly

for booking or queries 07935664648 or kinstara@gmail.com

www.amberbates.net

Trainee in clinical practice offering psychotherapy, Transactional Analysis and Menstruality.

06/08/2024

Navigating the changes of perimenopause and menopause can bring up all sorts of issues and difficulties you may have thought you had left behind.

What's maybe less spoken about is that it is also common for old traumas to rise to the surface in need of healing.

It’s a transition that asks us to take care of unfinished business so we can move on with freedom into the next phase of our life.

In group therapy creates a collective wisdom that emerges, allowing us to experience menopause in a particularly empowering way that isn’t possible in 1:1 therapy or going it alone.

Spaces still available. I would love you to join if you feel called.

03/08/2024

It's really wonderful to see so many empowering menopause conversations and movements happening right now that are shifting our society's way of thinking of menopause.

Many of the conversations happening are through the lens of cis-gendered women's experiences. Throughout history women as a gender have been marginalised, persecuted, and oppressed because of the very nature of their changing bodies.

Often left out of these conversations and further misunderstood, alienated and silenced have been are the voices of trans, non binary and intersex people who also experience menstruation and menopause.

Each person will have their own unique experience of menopause realated to their gender, while some experiences of menopause will be shared regardless of gender.

I hold a safe, professionally held, trauma informed group therapy space that is gender inclusive and welcomes shared experience and difference.

All bodies perimenopause/menopause are welcome.

Group starts in person, Friday 20th September, Cannosten Bridge Wellbeing (nr Narbeth) £40 per session. Details in the link below.
https://www.amberbates.net/events/

17/07/2024

Menopause is still a very misunderstood transition in our culture. Alongside the changes happenning in our body, there is another deep transformation taking place. It's purpose is to support us to be psychologically mature enough to step into the next phase of our lives with authority.

This type of deep change requires space for refection and grieving while we are letting go of what was before. Space is also necessary to nurture who we are becoming and the dreams we have as we land on the other side.

Whether this is happenning for you conciously or not , this inner work is exhausting, so during menopause we need more rest and time to care for ourselves.

I believe that what makes menopause truly difficult is when the very genuine needs of this transistion collide with our culture that has us believe we need to be productive, perform and overide our feelings and needs in order to survive.

This impasse creates incredible stress in the body and mind which manifests as physical and emotional distress and disturbance during menopause. It is actually a type of trauma.

Bringing this turbulance into the light, as part of a group in therapy, allows us to move out of the shame and isolation that keeps us stuck believing that we are 'wrong' or ' not getting it right'.

Come and feel supported to create a new story giving dignity to your own unique menopause experience.

13/07/2024

10/07/2024

The process of menopause can be an incredibly difficult and isolating time. Although there are more conversations happenning therev are few spaces in day to day life to process just how deeply the changes can impact our relationship with ourselves, with others and the world. This group is a safe space to explore all of that complexity.

All peri/menopause experinces are welcome , ESPECIALLY if you feel the current new wave of menopause conversations don't include yours.

If you are interested contact me via the details on the flyer. We will arrange a short Zoom call together where we can both ask questions and decide if group therapy is the right fit for you.

www.amberbates.net