The Listening Room Counselling Service Ltd

14/02/2026

Happy Valentine’s Day folks 💕🐴💕

07/01/2026

In the deep mid-winter,
when the ground is iron hard,
Water buckets freeze solid,
and the dark comes far too fast.

Steam rises from warm nostrils,
rugged backs beneath the stars,
Hands numb through soggy gloves,
mud somehow everywhere ... not just the yard.

The arena is a mirror,
the lanes a test of nerve,
You question all your life choices
as you trudge out “just to check” (again).

The horses stand unmoved by it all.
Unbothered.
Fed.
Watching you like this is perfectly normal behaviour.

They do not mark the days.
They only know:

hay arrives

water matters

you came back

In the deep mid-winter,
there are no rosettes,
summer dreams that feel very far away,
no pressure to progress.

Just care.
Consistency.
Showing up when it’s cold and thankless and quiet.

And somehow
this is where the bond deepens.

In frozen mornings and last checks at night.
In shared breath in the dark.
In choosing them, again and again,
when no one is watching.

This is not the glamorous season.
This is the faithful one.

In the deep mid-winter,
love looks like hay,
and warmth,
and turning the lights off knowing
they are safe.

23/12/2025

🌲Merry Christmas from The Listening Room Counselling Service🌲🐴
Thank you to all my lovely clients for your trust and commitment throughout the year. Whether you joined us for equine -assisted counselling & wellbeing sessions, room based talk therapy, or CBT it’s been a privilege to support you. Wishing you a peaceful, joyful Christmas and a restorative start to the New Year. 💕
therapy girls 🐴🐴🐴.
🐶 Ace 🐶 Doris 🐈‍⬛ 💕dream team for healing ❤️‍🩹.

31/10/2025

Happy Halloween 🎃 folks ! 🐴

08/09/2025

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Coming up soon: a panel discussion you won’t want to miss. Join our next webinar!

09/07/2025

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24/01/2025

There’s only one Crystal ! Where have all the carrots 🥕 gone ! 🐴💕.

12/12/2024

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21/11/2024

Snowy days ⛄️The therapy girls, enjoying a photo shoot 💕. to room based sessions assisted counselling and Psychotherapy. assisted session 💕🐴.

10/11/2024

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At the going down of the sun, and in the morning we shall remember them

To all that gave their lives, their families, and their youth so that we may have good days, thank you.

Artwork by Charlie Mackesy

12/09/2024

So very true 🐴🩷

A pony's eyes will tell you a great deal about his character.

30/07/2024

🩷Donna Ashworth 💕your words💕thank you 🙏

Nothing is linear, everything loops.

Healing, for example, feels complete. And then a new life lesson comes in and it’s as though the wound just opened.

Grief, you grow a life around it and along comes another to drag you right back down into the fog, as your soul leaves your body trying to find theirs and you begin a new chapter of the you who lives with them inside and not out.

Even our wisdom flourishes and is temporarily forgotten sometimes, as a new relationship tries to shave off our rough edges or a change whips the rug from under our feet.

The only thing that’s linear is time.

Our body does not age at the same pace as our soul, our heart and our mind because all of those duck, dive and swoop like a kite in a hurricane.

And I have to come to realise that when these loops occur, it is scary, of course. But we are not going backwards as it may feel.

We are still moving. And we are moving forward.

It is just that this road is not straight.

And truly, the things we have learned, the ways in which we have grown, are still under the surface, bolstering and fortifying our steps as we go.

I think of it as an infinity loop that somehow progresses as it winds around.

It can often feel we are getting nowhere in this life of ours but truly, there is no destination here.

It is not linear, this life.

It just keeps going around. And you may not see it but you’re only ever growing.

Donna

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