Andy Whitehouse Counselling

04/06/2025

A quick reminder that I am having a busy June! Not only a gig but this little adventure with lovely James Brunt Artist on the beach at Saltburn. Feel free to join us from wherever you are!
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Reflections in Landscape Workshop with Andy Whitehouse and James Brunt Person-centred therapist Andy Whitehouse and […]

30/04/2025

I am really looking forward to working with James Brunt Artist to deliver this adventure in collaboration with Online Events. Please feel very welcome to join us online (or in person!) from the beach at Saltburn as we explore what happens to us when we improvise creatively in response to the landscape around us. It would be a big help if anyone can share this around for me. Thank you x

Person-centred therapist Andy Whitehouse and land artist James Brunt offer an invitation to play, to improvise a creative response to the environment we find ourselves in using materials found in the landscape. This could be anything from stones on a balcony through to leaves in a wood or pebbles on...

25/01/2024

I wrote this a while back when I was an associate with the wonderful Sheffield Central Counselling practice. It still makes sense to me. How about you? https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=777174084431285&id=100064161002414

“I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.” – Lady Gaga We all like to think of ourselves as being...)

19/06/2023

Clearly there are times in physical or psychological distress that medication of all kinds may be of help, whether it is a pain killer, a therapeutic aid or to relieve emotional distress. However, this current work seems to back up what I have felt over many years, that in the end our emotional hurt cannot often be resolved by medication, and if anything we lose the important connection between our awareness and our emotional reality. We need space to talk, to be heard and met and not judged to move forward with and lighten the burden in our hearts.

The scale of long-term use - and concerns about withdrawal symptoms - are revealed by BBC Panorama.

15/05/2022

It is so common for people to not recognise the impact of environments that they have come to regard as normal, but in reality are causing, or have caused them harm.

Joe Wicks, known as the Body Coach, explores his difficult childhood growing up with a drug-addicted father and mother with OCD in a new BBC documentary

08/04/2022

The river is full. More rain and it would be up and on to the road and making life more complicated. It is turbulent, brown with churned up silt. The thing is that it has hardly rained here for days. The rain was somewhere else, somewhere upstream, somewhere in the past of the water I see flowing three feet deep where the heron stood on a shingle beach just the other day.
It strikes me that our lives can be like that. The deep and disturbing water we are experiencing in the present may well be the product of things that happened in the past. Where we were experiencing clarity and had a sense that we could touch the bottom if we needed to, there is an anxiety about what may lay beneath and the whole river is too churned up to see where the stepping stones I walked across last week might be. The route is submerged. If it rains now who knows how deep it will get before it subsides again? There are still tangled weeds on the iron bridge from where the flood came right up and almost covered the road a little while back.
I hope that your river isn't feeling too full right now, too close to overflowing for comfort. Our experience can be benign and joyful too. The river can be full of fish and lit up by wildlife and the sound of children playing in the shallows. It can be a great place to swim when the currents aren't too strong.