Alleviate- Caring about your Wellbeing

Alleviate- Caring about your Wellbeing A business that believes care begins and ends with caring about its clients. Alleviate is primarily focused on caring for the wellbeing of our clients.

Originally set up to provide in-home quality care to the elderly and vulnerable adults, we now also have a second arm offering Psychotherapeutic care. I want the people Alleviate works with to feel valued, safe, empowered, protected and whole. I want them to feel important and at the centre of something. The business has two areas of focus. Originally opened as a provider of quality care to the elderly and vulnerable adults (WCC approved personal assistant), Alleviate continues to care for individuals in their homes. Services include:

-Socialisation
-Personal Care
-Household organisation, cleaning and maintenance
-Food shopping, preparation, feeding assistance and menu planning
-Assistance with medication and health requirements
-Support in promoting active and healthy lifestyle

We can now also offer a new and expanding psychotherapy service. As member of the Human Givens Institute, we practice Human Given's therapy. A forward-facing, outcome focussed and proactive therapy. All forms of mental distress arise because, in one way or another, people’s physical or emotional needs are not being met. Our essential needs and our innate resources to help meet them – the ‘givens’ of human nature – are at the heart of the human givens approach. If all our needs are met in balance, making us confident about our place in the world and the people we connect with, we don’t suffer from disabling conditions, such as anxiety and stress, depression, addictions, phobias or panic attacks. As human givens practitioners we are licensed to use a simple and effective ways to deal with all these circumstances. offers support to vulnerable adults to enrich their lives within their home setting.

02/01/2026

Just a moment - it makes all the difference.

A moment of madness. A moment of clarity. A moment of still. The moment it all changed.

Stopping and being still can feel frightening in a world of to do’s, targets, shoulds and expectations. If you stop what is it that your anxiety tells you might happen. Do you take heed or can you take a moment to challenge that belief?

When we are anxious we are disconnected from our reason and rational and we don’t need to believe that what it tells us is necessarily true.

Dare to be still, notice how quickly you can feel better when you focus on the sky, waves or wind.

I couldn’t live further from the coast and frequently prescribe myself a day getting lost in the goodness the seaside brings.

This was Bournemouth on 30th December- it was a gift and a half.





Tis the season to be jolly apparently and there is nothing like being told you should be doing, saying or being somethin...
03/12/2025

Tis the season to be jolly apparently and there is nothing like being told you should be doing, saying or being something to induce anxiety.

As we approach Christmas we can acknowledge that as well as being a season of goodwill and celebration it can also be a period of sadness, mourning and stress for many.

As we move through advent I wish each of you strength and hope and hopefully a treat or two!

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06/11/2025

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03/11/2025

Navigating our world can feel hard, sometimes especially so if you are a man. The last 50 years has seen the narrative around gender and equality change substantially. As we try to steer around shifts in society and norms we can end up feeling quite lost.

Men matter. Good and happy men are needed for our worlds to flourish.

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When we feel anxious or upset and move into fight or flight our nervous system narrows our view of life. .seligman re...
29/10/2025

When we feel anxious or upset and move into fight or flight our nervous system narrows our view of life. .seligman refers to the 3 P’s. We will tend to see and explain the world in an increasingly Personal way, believing that we are in some way to blame. There might also be a Permanence to our narrative with thoughts telling us this is going to last for ever. Finally, we may sense this is Pervasive and is going to ‘spread its negativity‘ across everything.

If we can notice any of these 3 P’s in our thoughts they can be good indicators that we are in a state of alarm or sadness and that our perspective may not be taking account of the wider picture.

It is always good to remember that what we see or sense and indeed think is part of a larger story and are not ‘fact’.

By calming our alarm and asking ourselves, ‘What else could be happening?’, we can find a wider, more informed and realistic perspective.




28/10/2025

When things go wrong we can notice how we revert to old coping skills and give ourselves what we want rather than what we need. Note: These aren’t always the same.

Looking after our needs can be hard and takes work.

Let me know how you get back on track or if you need a hand getting back on track.

Do not fall in to the trap of being a big meany to yourself, it is a rabbit hole of darkness. Be kind. We have to stop and even fall backwards to drive forwards again.

16/10/2025

Emotional Needs: Control

At the end of it feels fitting to talk about our emotional need for control and the sense of desperation that can ensue when we feel out of control and without volition.

We all know this feeling and perhaps notice a sense of our chest tightening or our stomach lurching when imagining it. Our alarm systems are designed to keep us on our path moving forward and our bodies and minds indicate to us when we deviate, be that with or without choice.

The good news is we have all we need to take back that control and to grab hold of the reigns again.

Slow and steady wins the race.

14/10/2025

To encompass the enormity of parenthood and the responsibilities and emotions that come with it within an Insta post feels beyond me. It is a lifelong journey for those that choose that path and undoubtedly life changing.

For many, there is no greater or more soul grasping love than a love for a child and as such no pain of the magnitude felt by those parents who live through the death of their child.

Finding the right words is something that still worries me in each session of therapy I offer to help mourning parents. Yet this, I believe, cannot be a barrier to being present for and compassionate to those grieving.

Meeting someone in their grief and sitting as near as they feel comfortable (perhaps metaphorically, perhaps literally) can be a start.

🖤Hearing what is and isn’t said and reflecting your understanding to ensure you can begin to comprehend the enormity of their experience can follow. 🖤Offering reassurance around their grief and facilitating where possible an understanding of the devastation that has ensued or acknowledging the cruelty of unanswerable questions might feel helpful.
🖤Giving time for reflection. Validating and recognising behaviours which to them may feel alien can also help to accept this new lived experience .

Nobody is designed to cope or manage this kind of loss. There is no normal. No right. No wrong. There is just the now and then the next moment and the one after that.

I sit in a reflective awe as I watch parents carve out a future: Often not because they always want to, as commonly there feels very little choice involved. Yet from a dark pit of pain I time and time again witness an often messy path appear. With heels dragged, tears cried, fists clenched there can be a slow shift. Then one day they might notice they got dressed, maybe went to work, got through a ‘first’, spoke their child’s name without tears.

It is from their story, their journey, their path and their cherished and never forgotten child that a future can appear.

Perhaps join in lighting a candle at 7pm tonight .

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09/10/2025

The 9 Emotional Needs: Community

We all need to feel part of something, much like the multiple cogs in a watch , communities make the world go round.

There are no rules about the size, nor type of community. It may be as large as the LGBTQ+ community, or as small as a book club. The key is feeling part of a tribe that sees your place and your value and sees YOU.

You do you and make this and all of the emotional needs yours.







30/09/2025

The 9 Emotional Needs: Meaning and Purpose

Who am I?
I don’t know what I’d doing?
Now what?
I feel lost?

Most of us have been here at some point and can relate to how upsetting it can feel.

Only when we have a sense of being on the right path toward where we want to go can we feel like we are moving forward.

A sense of how and where we fit in and what we are doing with our lives is central to good mental wellbeing.

This is linked to our values, culture, roles, families and emotional connections and is often a need which isn’t being met in balance when people reach out.

You are always enough and were born with innate resources which perhaps you might not be using in the best way or maybe your environment isn’t providing the nourishment you need. There will always be something that can be done to help you back onto the path you want to follow.





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10/09/2025

9 Emotional Needs: Achievement .

What does the world feel like when you are achieving and meeting your goals? Just imagining this can make us smile, our heart skip a beat and a sense of pride.

In a world with hard measures, high expectations, unrealistic role models and social media fake stories we frequently can easily feel like we are failing to achieve.

Let’s get personal! What is a realistic hope for you to achieve? What would we see you doing if you were achieving at work, college, the gym as a partner?

It is only once we manage our expectations in a kind and realistic way can we truly hope to feel the wonderful highs achievement brings.

You deserve those highs.




I always find such pleasure working with clients who seek to understand themselves and to question internal questions an...
08/09/2025

I always find such pleasure working with clients who seek to understand themselves and to question internal questions and conflicts.

If you are part of the neurodivergent community you may well know how it feels to ‘be different’ . Growing and feeling nourished in a world where you perhaps sense you are different or worse are unkindly judged or treated is a real tough call.

You can always feel seen and welcome in my space. You are unique and not alone. We are a growing community and don’t need to feel anything other than worthy.

Wherever you sit on on the spectrum , be it ADHD, ASD, AuDHD, HSP, Dyscalcula, Dyslexia and / or a spicy mix of the aforementioned you deserve to be seen, supported and most importantly to feel confident in your skin.

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Warwick
CV346GQ

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Monday 8am - 8pm
Tuesday 8am - 8pm
Wednesday 8am - 10pm
Thursday 8am - 4pm
Friday 8am - 8pm
Saturday 10am - 3pm

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