Therapy with Bridget
Chorlton counselling and psychotherpy; trauma recovery, sadness, addiction, self-image, burnout, ADHD and autism, stress, and anxiety. LGBTQ+ welcoming space.
Offering in-person sessions from Manchester and offering a specialised online service to adults across the UK and abroad.
Making Space
Attending to what's going on
You might have experienced set-backs, and might live with a sense of having lost time. It can be important to process what has happened and to think about what you want for yourself, life and future.
Finding ways to support you feeling more comfortable in yourself. Experiencing change and growth can be uncomfortable. If you’re stressed with work, relationships, life transitions, it can be difficult to create space for yourself. Talking about what’s happening, being met you where you are can feel supportive. Sometimes noticing patterns which could be causing some discomfort can be the the first way things start to feel different.
Finding a fit
Knowing something about your therapist
I am interested in how connection with the body and creative outlet can help with feeling better.
My interest in the link between physical and emotional wellness is through a trauma and disability informed lens.
Some ways back to feeling more yourself could be through music, writing, art. It might be that your connection to those things have fallen away recently.
If you’d like to find out about who I am and what shapes my work, you can read more here →
Client centred therapy
Looking at the whole person
Offering a humanistic and experiential approach, I believe acceptance, understanding and exploring all sides to a person is important. Ultimately I think this can lead to finding more of your
Living in a way that’s more aligned with your own understanding and values can be powerful.
We might explore what is within your power to change and the steps that would be needed to ‘go’ there. We may be curious about feelings that come up around the things that can’t be changed.
You can learn more about what to expect from our work together here →
Blog Highlights
Questions – when to move, and when to stay still
Knowing when to move, and when to stay still can be something that’s brought to therapy. It might be literal, in a practical sense – should I carry on attending work through this difficult time, or take the sick note and rest? It might relate to attention and thinking, about
Private therapy
Traditionally, therapy services were something people accessed through the GP, voluntary services, or private therapist listings. Maybe people were connected with the therapy world in some way, and found a private therapist through word of mouth. Many clients find their therapist on sites like Psychology Today. This process of searching
Struggling: The COVID-19 Pandemic
COVID and Lockdown – the impact on our mental health and wellbeing Are you struggling with how you feel at the moment? It’s easy to ‘minimise’, or not appreciate the impact of what we’re living through on how we feel, relate, and cope. I believe it’s important to remind ourselves
Christmas Resources
Christmas is often a difficult time for some people. It’s okay to feel sad and upset around the holidays. It’s a time of family, friends, togetherness. So, for those who’ve lost a loved one, or for people who don’t share happy memories about Christmas, it can be an isolating time.
Therapy – how might it be useful?
Therapy This short blog looks at a few ideas for how therapy can be useful. This includes the value of carving out ‘us’ time, the formal commitment, the relationship, and the potentially healing experience of acceptance. Starting by saying that therapy and how it’s experienced is individual, as individual as
Fight, Flight and Freeze
Fight or flight is an adrenaline-induced reaction to perceived, or actual threat. There has been less research about freeze than the other two responses. Here we look at these three responses, their purpose, and where they might be unhelpful, or inconvenient, in our daily lives. Fight or flight are states
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