Healing Calm Therapy with Anna Lloyd

Healing

Through person-centred counselling I provide you with support and connection to find personal growth and transformation. Working together so you can begin to let go of old patterns and negative emotions. To find a release from beliefs that are keeping you feeling stuck, and allowing for new beginnings. Within the holding space of our therapeutic relationship, I will support you to safely process and heal.

Curiousity & self discovery

We can look at your personal history and current life situation. We can be curious about your past and present. This can be a journey to self-understanding and compassion. What has shaped you into the person you are today and how can you grow? We can look at your personal values to find deeper meaning to your life.

I am interested in personality testing / typing like the Enneagram, Tritype Enneagram and Myers Briggs Personality (MBTI) testing and family Genograms where clients are interested.

Art to process emotions, goals and values

If you are interested we can explore the use of collage, zen doodling, painting or scribbling and other modes of art creation to help you work through and process life experiences or goals. You can rise above feelings of adversity to find purity and calm that allows you to find greater strength, grounding and resilience. The process of art making can give you a safe way to tap into your unconscious thoughts and feelings and perhaps distract your mind if you are feeling nervous.

Calm & meditation

I naturally have a calm presence, so this is often transferred to my clients, but also as a meditation practitioner I can hold brief meditations with you. Meditation may be used when I feel like you need some centering, whether you are flustered because you have gotten to the session in a rush, or you are not feeling well that day, I may suggest we do a meditation to get you feeling calm and grounded for the session. Or if you request it, we can do a short meditation in every session. Lets find your version of peace and calm.

- “Brain scan research on meditation shows increased activity in the brains of experienced meditators in areas governing attentional processes (i.e., the medial prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate) and in areas regulating arousal and autonomic control, (i.e., the amygdala and hypothalamus [Creswell, Way, Eisenberger, & Lieberman, 2007; Davidson et al., 2003]). Because activity in these brain areas has been found to be compromised in subjects with PTSD, it is a promising finding that meditation and associated mindfulness techniques can counteract trauma-related physiological responses.” (Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Trauma, Janina Fisher, p. 159)