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Transformative Healing: The Power of Shamanic Energy Psychology and Acupuncture

14/11/2024

A Unique Blend of Shamanic Practice and Acupuncture
This transformative therapy combines the ancient wisdom of shamanic healing with the precision of Five Element Acupuncture, guided by two highly experienced practitioners. Together, they create a safe and supportive space to balance emotions and thoughts, offering deep insights that help the body release old patterns and energy blockages.
By integrating energy psychology, applied kinesiology, Five Element Acupuncture, and shamanic healing, this unique approach provides a comprehensive and efficient treatment program.
The work addresses areas where you feel stuck—whether they manifest as physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual challenges. In just one session, we aim to uncover and resolve the root cause of these issues, facilitating profound transformation that often takes months to achieve through other modalities.

BLACK FRIDAY DEAL :Three Session Packages are £955 - Hove normally £1111
(package needs to be used within two months of purchase)
• Up to 1.5 hours of consult in the room with both practitioners for three individual sessions.
• Each practitioner will offer follow up ( 30 mins time each of messaging support – texts and voice-notes) after each session as part of the package if required.
• Information will be shared between practitioners to give the best approach . Some modalities might include remote energetic healing, acupressure points and wellbeing tips.
Single Sessions Are Available to Explore the Process
This is an introductory price for BLACK FRIDAY ( three sessions must be used within 2 months of purchase)
• Introductory Hove session is £333, following single session are £377
Joint Sessions Are Available
• Joint sessions ( up to 2 hours ) are available ie parent and child or couples or workplace dynamic £488 Hove ( normally £555)

Where can I get Blood Testing? At The Grey Door Therapy Clinic, Hove!

8/11/2024

Book Your Blood Test at Grey Door Therapy Clinic
When it comes to quick, reliable blood testing, the Grey Door Therapy Clinic offers a seamless and professional phlebotomy service.

What We Test For:
•   Women’s Health
•   Men’s Health
•   Hormones
•   Sports Fitness
•   Fertility
•   General Health
•   Food Sensitivity
•   Allergy

Why Choose Grey Door Therapy Clinic?
By taking your blood sample in our clinic, we can collect a larger quantity of blood, enabling a wider range of tests. This also ensures that our couriers deliver your sample directly to the laboratory, guaranteeing you receive your results and a personalised doctor’s report the next working day.

Professional Blood Draw | Results Next Working Day

Prioritise Your Wellbeing
Call today to book your appointment and take the first step towards better health!

What is Natural Facelift Massage?

3/10/2024

What is Natural Facelift Massage?
Natural Facelift Massage, also known as Facial Rejuvenation or Natural Facelift Therapy, is a non-invasive, holistic treatment that uses massage techniques to improve the appearance of the face. It typically involves a series of gentle but firm massage movements that stimulate the skin, muscles, and lymphatic system, helping to reduce tension, improve circulation, and encourage the removal of toxins. Consider it a deep tissue massage for the face!
This massage is designed to promote a more youthful, lifted appearance by reducing puffiness, softening fine lines, and improving skin elasticity. You will find it plumps the skin where needed, as well as naturally lifting sagging areas. It can also relieve stress and headaches, and can improve overall skin tone, all without the need for surgical procedures or injections.
Clients find it an incredibly relaxing treatment and results can often be seen and felt even after the first session. It leaves your face feeling refreshed, with a natural glow. It can be booked as a one-off session (60 min appointment at £65), or as a package of four sessions to be taken over the course of a month (special discounted price – please enquire as spaces are limited)

Rosie Beale

Psychotherapy or counselling?

21/9/2024

Psychotherapy is primarily a relational process that focuses on providing a safe, non-judgemental space for clients to explore their relationship to themselves, others and the world around them.
A space that allows the individual to identify, acknowledge and explore aspects of themselves that they may previously been unaware of, and highlight unconscious self-sabotaging beliefs. It is also a safe space to express and process difficult emotions, grief, and related trauma that may have been held in the system.

Psychotherapy differs from counselling in that it tends to be longer-term work, and often involves exploration of early relationship patterns that may still be having an impact in the present.
The process facilitates new-found awareness and self-acceptance, and with this, individuals can move forward with a recovered sense of self-worthhere to edit.

Philippa Aspey - Psychotherapist

September 21st, 2024

21/9/2024

Dismantling the Internal Patriarch: A Psycho-spiritual approach By Philippa Aspey

12/6/2024

Dismantling the Internal Patriarch: A Psycho-spiritual approach
By Philippa Aspey
‘Self-Care is how you take your power back’. 1
As some of you reading this will know, the word Patriarchy comes from the Greek; literally meaning ‘the rule of the father’. 2
We know that women have experienced oppression and subjugation in a devastating number of ways for centuries. We are aware of feminist movements, understandable reactions to thislevel of control. We’ve learnt about many courageous women who’ve fought back and stood up to the tyranny. We hold deep gratitude and respect for the women who have shouted themselves hoarse for the cause and paved the way for a future where women have the same rights as men.
We have journeyed far and broken many barriers, but are we where we want to be? And what has been the cost? Still, in 2024 there are many who have yet to experience liberation and exercise their equal rights. There is a deep, deep weariness experienced by those who continue to engage in bringing about this necessary change. And there are, within the feminist movements and fields of sexuality/gender, many cracks and fissures which require our attention.
Activism and campaigning have their place and are as important as ever, but at this crucial point in time there is a need to dive deeper; to understand what underpins this damaging and pernicious system that we are living in, and have all unconsciously internalised, regardless of our gender.
One of the most important things that I have learnt as a psychotherapist is that if we want to see long-term change for the better, we need to begin with ourselves. Not only is it importantto understand what underpins oppressive and controlling behaviours in others, (unprocessed trauma resulting in a deep sense of inadequacy/worthlessness) but to understand what drives our own process in reaction to these behaviours.
The imbalance in the external world reflects the imbalance within each and every one of us.
Until we examine and align ourselves with our own authentic core values, we are travelling through fog; and this generates fear. As Marie Curie said, ‘Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.’3
Although fear of failure is incredibly common in western cultures, we have also been conditioned to fear personal success. I don’t mean success in the patriarchal sense (status, money, material goods) but engaging in a life where we feel fulfilled; a life where we are doing what we love and connecting authentically to others, a life with our Unique Purpose.
1.Lalah Delia
2.Wikipedia
3. The Mental Health Handbook- Trevor Powell
This fear is strongly attached to a belief that we don’t deserve to live a life that we want, that we’re unworthy. On a conscious level you may instantly disagree with this, but dig much deeper and you may stumble across this hurdle. Marianne Williamson writes about this in the following poem.
‘Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness
That most frightens us.
We ask ourselves
Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.*
Your playing small
Does not serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking
So that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine,
As children do.
We were born to make manifest
The glory of God * that is within us.
It's not just in some of us;
It's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
We unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we're liberated from our own fear,
Our presence automatically liberates others.’
* (Insert whatever word you feel comfortable with if the word God doesn’t resonate with your experience)
To relinquish the power of the Patriarchy therefore, we deserve and owe it to ourselves to examine what we have internalised, and to let go of what no longer serves us.
It is essential that we make time to rest, recuperate and reset. That we find and/or create safe spaces to be heard, witnessed and with the appropriate support, gently and lovingly‘dismantle’ our own conditioning in order to focus on empowering our authentic self.
4. Marianne Williamson – Return to Love
5. Recommended work- books that may assist with the healing process are: The Artist’s Way Julia Cameron, Mind Over Mood Greenburger and Padesky, The Self-Esteem Workbook Glenn R. Schiraldi, The Mental Health Handbook Trevor Powell, The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook Edmund Bourne.

We need to examine and question long-held beliefs. To relinquish the striving and relentless pursuit of goals/perfectionism/ status/ achievement. To release our obsession for being busy and filling every second with ‘doing’. To lessen the pressure for ‘success’, and loosen our grip on the ‘shoulds’, ‘musts’ and ‘oughts’. To place as much value on intuition, emotional intelligence, imagination, creativity and lateral thinking as we do on reason, rationality, logic and linear thinking.
To let go of and transmute our grief, shame and rage and in time, invite others to do so too. Our rage is entirely valid, as are all our emotions, but to get stuck in blame disempowers us further. To tell our stories in safe places of non-judgement, empathy and compassion. To listen to our own intuition. To acknowledge and honour our vulnerability. To learn active listening and be kind.
To prioritise creativity, in any form, for the enriching process that it is rather than fret about the end result. To sit with uncertainty and to trust the unknown. To sit in silence and nature. To transcend polarities. To cultivate compassion, acceptance and a trust in something ‘other’.To bring ourselves, then others if they choose, back into balance and know that co-operation and community is the future.

Copyright © Philippa Aspey 2024

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Low Cost Acupuncture - starts July 2024

12/6/2024

One of our acupuncturists Cara Beckinsale has decided to try and respond to the current economic climate. We all know that times are harder so we are offering a Cost of Living Clinic on a Tuesday afternoon starting 25th June. Cara is an extremely experienced acupuncturist with over nine years in private practice and a number of high profile projects for the NHS.
This is a model they use very successfully in China. You might share the session with another person ( no different from the chiropractor) which will be divided by screens. You will receive your diagnosis and needle placement and then have 20 mins to relax with the needles in while Cara tends to the other patient. Sessions are up to 40 mins for a considerable discount compared to her private practice.
These clinics are invaluable for people who require regular treatment (chronic conditions or sudden onset of pain, mental health management, headaches, digestive issues, women's health etc). As they are more affordable, people can have supplemental treatment if needed.
You can read about Cara on her website www.carabeckinsaleacupuncture.com and also book your slot for our first two Tuesdays.
The success of this offering will be reliant upon engagement. So if this is something you would like to try or feel passionate about having more accessible holistic healthcare in our community.

Bowen Technique Drop-in Clinic

2/3/2024

Starting Saturday 2nd March 2024, 10-2pm
Following first Saturday or every month.

Bowen Technique drop in clinic

Bowen is a holistic technique that works on the soft connective tissue (fascia) of the body. A Bowen treatment consists of sequences of small moves, each at a specific site on the body. It can be done through light clothing
The "moves" stimulate energy and empower the body to heal itself to the best of its ability.
Bowen work is truly complementary in that it is safe for all ages and it is even safe to use post surgery, supporting all the system’s of the body enabling a healthy and speedy recovery. For some, the results are often noticed within hours of a single treatment (chronic conditions may require more than the usual 2 to 4 treatments, spaced a week apart, before obvious improvements are noticed).

Some of the conditions Bowen may help with include:
Back pain
Sciatica. Sacro-iliac pain
Neck stiffness and discomfort.
Restricted/ painful/ frozen shoulder
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Tennis/ golfing elbow
Pelvic imbalance
Hamstring tightness and inflexibility
Postural problems
Stroke recovery
Irritable bowel symptoms/ digestive disorders
ME/ Fibromyalgia
Migraines, headaches etc.
Stress and associated effects
Respiratory conditions
Urinary conditions

Bowen is also a great way to treat children and babies in that it is a gentle and effective way to support your child's development. This is not only beneficial, but very calming and relaxing too.

Minimum donation of £25 for 30 minute treatment

Join us, a great way to start the month

WHERE'S YOUR PAIN?

13/9/2023

WHERE’S YOUR PAIN?

Here’s ten things to know about Bowen Technique:

• It aids pain relief
• Improves posture
• Helps relieve injuries and prevents further damage
• Benefits fascia
• Reduces muscular joint restriction
• Relaxing
• Provides body alignment
• Rebalances and promotes sleep
• Is a stress reliever
• Encourages the body to self heal

What is Bowen Technique?
Bowen Technique is a soft tissue technique where rolling moves are made over precise points of the body, working over muscles, fascia, ligaments and nerves, providing alignment, reducing pain, improving muscle flexibility, movement and posture.

Have you ever had Bowen?
Let us know ⬇️ if you have and what you think.

Call us today to see how Bowen can help you!

LOOKING FOR COUNSELLING NEAR YOU?

12/9/2023

TEN REASONS YOU MAY WANT TO TALK TO A COUNSELLOR 👥

• To find a way to manage stress
• To build confidence and self-esteem
• To treat depression
• To manage anxiety
• To work through grief and loss
• To address sleep concerns
• To treat the effects of trauma
• To work through change and transition
• To change unhealthy patterns
• Family issues

There are other situations when therapy can be very important, and seeking help can be in the best interest of the health and safety of you and your loved ones, such as having feelings of extreme highs and lows, dramatic changes in eating habits, or concerns about disordered eating, abusing substances such as drugs or alcohol, intense anger, delusions and hallucinations, social withdrawal or isolation, prolonged depression, excessive fears or worries, a growing inability to cope with everyday challenges and activities, or suicidal thoughts.

If you or you know someone with these thoughts please don’t hesitate to reach out.

Talking therapy is extremely effective, very common and something you should definitely consider if you're going through a hard time at the minute

What are your thoughts on counselling? ⬇️