Hannah M Counselling

Hannah M Counselling Hello I'm Hannah, a Pluralistic Counsellor from Blackpool who helps people with their self-esteem

Under almost every overthinking spiral there's a belief ✨Something like: if I get this wrong, something bad will happen....
06/06/2026

Under almost every overthinking spiral there's a belief ✨

Something like: if I get this wrong, something bad will happen.

Or: my needs are inconvenient.

Or: being too much has consequences.

The overthinking is the smoke alarm. The belief is what taught it that fire was likely.

And you can manage the alarm indefinitely, or you can get curious about what's running underneath it.Thats what we work together on in therapy.

DM me OVERTHINK. Very limited spaces before I move to a waitlist ✌️

Managing anxiety and understanding anxiety are not the same thing 👀Managing keeps you functioning. You get through the d...
05/06/2026

Managing anxiety and understanding anxiety are not the same thing 👀

Managing keeps you functioning. You get through the day, you get through the week. You're good at it by now.

But if you've been doing that for years and nothing has actually shifted, maybe that's not a you problem. Maybe it's a sign the work needs to go somewhere the tools can't quite reach.

DM me OVERTHINK. I have very limited spaces before I move to a waitlist. Or follow along for more ✌️

04/06/2026

The car on the way home ... The ceiling at 2am ... The conversation you've rewritten seventeen times in your head 🫠

You know it's over, but you can not stop.

There isn't anything wrong with you. It's just your threat system doing exactly what it learned to do ... scanning, monitoring, protecting you from something it decided was dangerous.

Understanding what that something actually is? That's where things start to shift.

DM me OVERTHINK. Very limited spaces before I move to a waitlist ✌️

Your brain isn't broken ... It's bracing 💛Overthinking isn't a flaw, it's part of a nervous system that's learned the wo...
03/06/2026

Your brain isn't broken ... It's bracing 💛

Overthinking isn't a flaw, it's part of a nervous system that's learned the world isn't safe to relax in.

The more it's been triggered, the more sensitive it gets. That's not you being difficult. That's you being human.

Understanding what your system is bracing for, and slowly giving it evidence that it doesn't have to work this hard anymore, is exactly what we will do together in therapy.

Because you deserve a mind that isn't always scanning for the next thing to go wrong.

DM me OVERTHINK to enquire about spaces, I have very limited before I move to a waitlist. Or alternatively follow along to learn more 💛

Your brain isn't the problem, It's doing exactly what it was built to do 🚨The old brain goes off fast and doesn't stop t...
02/06/2026

Your brain isn't the problem, It's doing exactly what it was built to do 🚨

The old brain goes off fast and doesn't stop to check the evidence.

The new brain can generate threat entirely in your own head.

Put them together and you have a nervous system that's been on high alert for years.

Not because something is wrong with you. Because something happened that taught it to stay switched on.

DM me OVERTHINK. Very limited spaces before I move to a waitlist 🚨

If Andy Sachs's arc in The Devil Wears Prada hit differently, keep reading 👠She didn't lose herself to a bad relationshi...
29/05/2026

If Andy Sachs's arc in The Devil Wears Prada hit differently, keep reading 👠

She didn't lose herself to a bad relationship or a dramatic breakdown. She lost herself to a version of success that was never actually hers. One small compromise at a time. One rule quietly absorbed. One question she stopped asking herself.
And the thing is, she didn't notice until she was already someone else.

That's exactly what we look at together in therapy. Not the big moments. The quiet ones. The wants you set aside. The values you inherited without choosing. The version of your life that looks right from the outside but feels like someone else's from the inside.

Because the life you actually want looks and FEELS like yours. And working out what that means, what you'd actually choose if nobody was watching, is where we start.

DM me VALUES if this is you. 👠

Very limited spaces before I move to a waitlist.

The work isn't about becoming someone new 💛It's about noticing where you stopped being yourself ... and starting to make...
28/05/2026

The work isn't about becoming someone new 💛

It's about noticing where you stopped being yourself ... and starting to make small, honest choices back towards her.

Not all at once. Not dramatically. Just: slightly more real, slightly more yours, one question at a time.

DM me VALUES if you want to start asking them. Very limited spaces before I move to a waitlist ✌️

27/05/2026

Nobody sat you down and asked .... "Do you actually want this? Does this matter to you? Is this who you are or who you were taught to be?"

They just handed you the script and expected you to perform it.

So you kept going. Tired. Anxious. Quietly grinding towards a destination that should feel like the answer. Pushing down that small, inconvenient feeling. The one that sounds like ...

" Is this actually what I want?"

That feeling isn't anxiety. It's not you being ungrateful or difficult or too much. It's the gap between who you actually are and the life you were told to want.

What happens when we start exploring this in therapy? You'll finally stop. Sometimes quietly. Sometimes with a surprised laugh.

"I don't even want that."
"That's not even important to me."

And then the real question lands ...

Who actually made that rule? Who decided that's what your life should look like? And more importantly ... Who says so?

You're not broken. You're following a map you didn't draw 🧭

DM me VALUES if you want to start drawing your own.

If you feel like you're living someone else's life but can't work out whose, this might be why 💛In my experience, a lot ...
26/05/2026

If you feel like you're living someone else's life but can't work out whose, this might be why 💛

In my experience, a lot of the distress women carry isn't coming from inside them. It's coming from the gap between who they are and who the rules say they should be. And most of the time, nobody's ever asked them where those rules came from.

That question changes things.

DM me VALUES if you want to start asking it. Very limited spaces before I move to a waitlist 💛

Bec said it herself after MAFS ended: "I'm embarrassed I allowed myself to get to that point." 🥺Not angry. Not just sad....
12/05/2026

Bec said it herself after MAFS ended: "I'm embarrassed I allowed myself to get to that point." 🥺

Not angry. Not just sad. Embarrassed. Because she knew. And she stayed anyway.

That's not weakness. That's what happens when you've been taught that showing up harder, being easier, making yourself smaller is what earns you love.

It doesn't. It just means if someone does choose you .... they're choosing the performance. Not the REAL you.

The work is learning to trust the part of you that already knows. And stop leaving her behind every time she tries to speak.

DM me if this landed.

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