Unity Therapy Centre

Unity Therapy Centre Welcome to my page on tips & techniques to help you to step into a better frame of mind.💚 I work within my own private practice.

I am an NCPS Accredited and Registered Member of the BACP integrative counsellor. I received my BSc (Hons) First Class degree in counselling from Staffordshire University.

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29/10/2025

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Trust the process and have faith that everything will work out ❤️💚
29/10/2025

Trust the process and have faith that everything will work out ❤️💚

Keep going you got this 👍🏻 💚💪🏻
28/10/2025

Keep going you got this 👍🏻 💚💪🏻

Abraham Maslow was an American psychologist and a humanist. He believed that people are basically good, that we have fre...
27/10/2025

Abraham Maslow was an American psychologist and a humanist. He believed that people are basically good, that we have free will, and that we’re driven to grow into our best and most complete selves.

Even as late as the mid-20th century, psychology was focused on illness and classifying 'pathological' behaviours: it focued on stuff 'going wrong' in the mind. Maslow helped to turn that around. Along with others in the new 'humanistic psychology' movement, he asked a different question: what helps people live well? What do humans need to be happy?

The hierarchy of needs was his answer. It isn’t a set of strict stages or a ladder you climb. It’s a way of thinking about human happiness and motivation.

Maslow's ideas seem obvious now but the were radical in their day. They recognised that the spectrum of human problems was vast, from large problems to small ones, but that these could be seen as layers to help us better understand what might be lacking in our lives.

At the bottom of Maslow's graph is the foundation, where our most basic needs sit, like food, rest, shelter, safety. Towards the top, he said, humans have needs like belonging, love, self-respect, and purpose. When our basic needs are met, we have the freedom and energy to focus those other needs: things like creativity, growth, and meaning. But when they’re not met, everything else becomes harder. A person who feels unsafe, hungry, or cut off from others will struggle to feel confident or fulfilled.

Maslow’s point was that many of our psychological struggles begin when these human needs are frustrated. It’s not that we move neatly from one level to the next, but that the health of each layer supports the others. The more stable the base, the more we can flourish. (Thanks to BiteSize Learning for the graphic.) 💚

Perspective 💚
27/10/2025

Perspective 💚

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25/10/2025

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It's Time to Press STOP ✋🏽💚
23/10/2025

It's Time to Press STOP ✋🏽💚

Love this definition that I saw online this morning 😄💚"Someone who joins you in the darkness with a light to help you fi...
23/10/2025

Love this definition that I saw online this morning 😄💚

"Someone who joins you in the darkness with a light to help you find your way out."

We are not here to change you or 'fix' you, you don't need fixing; we are simply here to join you in the darkness with a light to help you find your way out 🔦

We are here to listen 👂

We are here to support 🤝

We are here to help you embrace your imperfections 🤝

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You are the expert of your own lived experiences. You are at the heart of the therapeutic relationship. You lead at your...
22/10/2025

You are the expert of your own lived experiences.
You are at the heart of the therapeutic relationship.
You lead at your own pace.
It’s your journey 💚


Grief and the Emotional BodyGrief isn’t just sadness—it’s a storm of emotions that can feel unpredictable, overwhelming,...
20/10/2025

Grief and the Emotional Body

Grief isn’t just sadness—it’s a storm of emotions that can feel unpredictable, overwhelming, and sometimes even contradictory.

When we grieve, we may experience:

Intense sadness that lingers like a shadow.

Anger—at circumstances, at ourselves, even at the one we lost.

Guilt or regret, replaying the “what ifs” in our minds.

Anxiety about the future, or fear of more loss.

Numbness, when emotions shut down as a form of protection.

Moments of joy or laughter that can feel out of place or even wrong—yet they’re part of the healing landscape too.

Grief doesn’t follow a straight line. Emotions can collide, overlap, or vanish suddenly—only to return with force. It’s normal to feel like you’re on an emotional rollercoaster.

If you’re here, sitting in this storm: know that every emotion has its place. None of them mean you’re grieving “wrong.”

Grief is love, expressed in a thousand ways—sometimes in tears, sometimes in silence, sometimes in anger, sometimes even in laughter.

From: Jenna James

15/10/2025

How a counsellor listens…

“We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy.
Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know."
(Rogers, C., 1980. A Way of Being. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, p.116)

"The state of empathy, or being empathic, is to perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as if one were the person."
(Rogers, C., 1980. A Way of Being. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, p.140) 💚

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