Do you often struggle with sleep problems, low mood, anxiety, irritability, or ongoing tiredness?
Do you find it difficult to manage your emotions or feel like you're not coping as well as before?
These symptoms may be more common than you realise and could be linked to the hormonal changes of perimenopause.
If you're curious whether how you're feeling might be linked to perimenopause, why not take the EMBERS® Women’s Wellbeing Quiz, offered courtesy of the Menopause CBT Clinic®? This quick and easy quiz can help you explore how these changes may be affecting your health and highlight areas that could benefit from extra care and attention.
You can access the EMBERS® Quiz by subscribing to my mailing list below.
Feel free to reach out to arrange a free 20 minute call to briefly review your quiz results and discuss how Menopause-Informed psychological care can support your wellbeing. Let’s take the next step together toward improving your health!
Disclaimer: The EMBERS® Quiz is not a menopause mental health assessment. If you have any immediate concerns about your mental or physical health, please contact your GP practice.
You may experience possible feelings of discomfort and/or awkwardness sat opposite a counsellor in a room. ‘Walk and Talk’ therapy offers us an alternative option: Namely, therapy in the fresh air combined with a walk, connecting to nature.
Being out in nature helps relaxation, promotes a sense of calm and reduces our stress. Walking generates momentum, which can help us if we feel stuck or trapped and help with the flow of our thoughts & emotions. Exercise too, releases endorphins to improve our mood and boost our energy levels. Movement is known to be helpful for processing our emotions and encourages creative, deeper ways of thinking. Clients often report that they have experienced an emotional breakthrough at the end of a ‘walk and talk’ session.
There is a sense of freedom being out in the great outdoors to release built up emotions through regulated breathing. Time to pause, reflect, process and engage in the here and now, which is very soothing and gently enhances your physiological and mental wellbeing. Enabling you to give yourself the space to notice, observe and explore your choices from the different parts of yourself.
Being connected to the outside world can be beneficial. Walking and talking can help with depression and anxiety, loss and grief or any kind of difficult life transitions you may be facing – personal, relationship-based, family or work related. Walking can help to ground you.
You can set the pace, and if you want to stop and look at something, or sit on a bench to reflect, that’s all part of the therapeutic experience. ‘Walk & Talk’ therapy is a wonderful alternative to sitting indoors.
Our first session will be online (via ZOOM) for introductions, to get to know each other and assess how I can support you and for you to feel comfortable with ‘walk & talk’ therapy. During your first session we will also discuss issues of confidentiality and how you will negotiate encountering other people when out walking. Whatever the location or environment, seeing people walking and talking side by side is a very common sight. A client and therapist walking side by side don’t look any different.
If bad weather prevents the ‘walking & talking’ session from happening, the counselling session will take place over Zoom. All ‘walking & talking’ sessions will take place during daylight hours only.
We can absolutely do menopause therapeutic coaching on the move.
For a 20 minute informal chat to see if I am the right therapist for you, drop me a line using the form or the details below.
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nic@clarity-kent.co.uk
T: 07771 054258
All information that you choose to disclose will be treated in confidence, If it’s necessary for me to pass on any confidential information, I will, wherever possible, only to do so with your consent. Everything is confidential apart from harm to self and others which follows the BACP ethical framework.
