Help to Heal Counselling Services

03/06/2026

🐚📸 Finding New Ways to Start Difficult Conversations 💬

For some people, talking about feelings, experiences, or challenges can feel overwhelming. Finding the right words isn’t always easy, especially when emotions are complex or when someone feels anxious, shy, or unsure where to begin.

That’s why I sometimes use resources such as shells, photo cards, and talk-point question cards during therapy sessions.

🐚 Shells and natural objects can provide a grounding focus, helping people feel more relaxed and present in the moment.

📸 Photo cards can make it easier to express thoughts and emotions indirectly. Sometimes an image can communicate something that feels difficult to put into words.

💬 Talk-point questions offer gentle prompts that encourage reflection and conversation without the pressure of having to know exactly what to say.

These tools can help:
✨ Reduce the pressure of direct conversation
✨ Encourage self-expression and storytelling
✨ Build confidence in sharing thoughts and feelings
✨ Support emotional awareness and insight
✨ Create a more relaxed and engaging therapeutic experience

Everyone communicates differently, and therapy doesn’t have to be about sitting face-to-face and talking continuously. Using creative and interactive resources can help people feel more comfortable, understood, and able to engage at their own pace.

29/04/2026

May is Mental Health Awareness month and it’s important to think about how we remove and reduce the stigma around talking about our mental health and the battles we face.

Spring represents renewal, mental health awareness should be an opportunity for growth, healing and new beginnings.

Therapy can be a space for personal growth and emotional healing.

When you sit in my counselling chair I want you to feel that you are on your own journey towards healing.

Let this May reflect the importance of mental health awareness, openness, and creating safe spaces where people feel heard, supported, and understood.

02/04/2026

Great way to start the morning and prepare for the day! Stress awareness month! ❤️

26/03/2026

As we head into April, let’s think about stress can affect our everyday lives.

You may not even be aware of what stress can do to you or how it can make you feel.

Help to Heal can provide you with ways to deal with stress and strategies to put in place to stop you feeling overwhelmed and unable to cope.

Please feel free to get in touch for more information or to book a session.

18/03/2026

11/02/2026

What is therapy not?

Strange question to ask, but one that is really easy to answer:

💡Not advice-giving
💡Not judgmental
💡Not “fixing” you
💡Not endless childhood digging (unless relevant)

It also isn’t just for when things are really bad or when you are at your lowest.

What IS therapy then?

🌈It’s is a space for understanding yourself in a way that makes you feel lighter and better.

🌈A space when you don’t have to be the strong one who holds it all together.

🌈A space for you to put down all that you have been carrying and understand why it became so heavy in the first place!

🌈Come and experience that space for yourself and learn about what and who you are.

Leave behind what you are not.

04/02/2026

Lots of people ask themselves, is counselling right for me?
You’re not alone in wondering.

You don’t need to be in crisis.
You don’t need a diagnosis.
And you don’t need to have it all figured out.

Counselling might help if:
• You feel overwhelmed or stuck
• You’re coping on the outside, struggling inside
• You want support or clarity

Counselling isn’t about being “fixed.”
It’s a safe space to talk, reflect, and feel supported.

Ask yourself, is it time to find that balance in your life again?

20/01/2026

❤️Sessions are 50 minutes
❤️ Face-to-Face or online
❤️ £45 per session
❤️Discount for blue light cards
❤️Resources and support given
❤️Weekday, evenings and weekend availability
❤️Person centred and treatment plan shaped around you

14/01/2026

🤔Making the decision to go to counselling can be a big one.

📞Picking up the phone and talking to a stranger can seem like the hardest thing to do.

📝Making the appointment, turning up and not knowing where to start are all reasons why people put off going to counselling.

😀Once you have taken that step and got through the initial worries, you will wonder why you didn’t do it a long time ago!

🏡This is my new therapy room at Help to Heal. Providing a calm and quiet space for you to be comfortable and relaxed.

🏡Help to Heal provides therapy built around you and what helps you.

⏰Sessions are arranged at a convenient time that suits you. They can be in person, online, WhatsApp or telephone.

🏠Sessions can take place at your own home, outside or in my therapy room in Bognor Regis.

🥅Sessions are built around your own goals and what you want to achieve to help change a difficult time in your life, your past or maybe for your future. It’s all about you and starts with you!

⏰Don’t put off making time for you, don’t put off taking that first step, don’t put off making contact.

☀️Don’t put off what could help you heal something that gives you a brighter and more positive outlook on life!

14/01/2026

New therapy room at Help to Heal!