Counselling and Psychotherapy: listeningbody@proton.me
1:1 Adults in Aberteifi / Cardigan, in-person face-to-face, online or telephone.
Talk to someone in confidence.
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Discover new perspectives on how you're reacting to situations and in relationships.
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Equip yourself with increased self awareness and the insight to resolve conflicts with those you love, care about and/or work with.
Learn how to move your anxiety, depression, addictions, relationship/family problems and emotional distress yourself.
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Are you always on the defensive or ready for a fight? Do you often feel threatened, let-down, taken-for-granted, resentful, misunderstood or like no-one cares?
No matter what’s happened to you or what you’ve done - you count and you are capable of moving in a new direction. You needn't go through this alone. Find ways towards connection and support.
MERIEL has a Diploma in Adlerian Counselling and Psychotherapy (ASIIP, BACP). This approach compassionately explores your patterns and belief systems so you can change where you feel stuck.
Somatics: invite your body into therapy
1:1 Adults in Aberteifi / Cardigan, in-person only.
Somatic means relating to the body distinct from the mind. Somatic therapy means noticing your body as a place of feelings and choices.
Learning to listen to your body is a way to understand yourself and make choices about how you live and feel.
Your body is talking to you all the time but maybe you're not listening, can't listen, neevr learnt how to listen. Maybe you never had the opportunity to make nourishing or vempowering choices at important times in your life so your body feel distant, frightening, unpredictable.
Somatic therapy is an opportunity to rebuild a relationship with your body and sensations.
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Somatic therapy requires relational safety which means developing trust with another person. To encourage this between you and Meriel all inital sessions are in-person and weekly. Over time, online session are possible.
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Somatic therapy can support nervous system stabilisation by practicing coping tools and techniques before other forms of therapy like counselling or psychotherapy.
Somatic therapy is suited to tolerating the aftermath of traumatic experiences held in our bodies.
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Somatic therapy can be an alternative to talking therapy, a complement to counselling or a way to work creatively in a preverbal space.
Trauma Toolkit groups.
Meriel facilitates Trauma Toolkit stabilisation groups for men, women and people of diverse genders in West Wales. 10 people maximum, in-person only.
These are opportunities to learn in a group a broad range of approaches for coping with the impacts of trauma. These are not processing spaces so we don't share the events of the past here, instead we share our experiences of trying out different techniques for living with these feelings in the here and now.
These 10 week courses introduce a diverse range of tools for things like anxiety, panic attacks, nightmares, sleeping problems, numbness, hyper-sensitivity, hypervigilance, fatigue, unexplained chronic pains., difficulty controlling, emotions, feeling empty or hopelesss, suicidal feelings, feeling different from others, feeling permanently damaged, feeling hostile or distrustful, avoiding relationships.
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You'll need to register, then arrange a phone call with Meriel to establish if this is the right thing for you at the moment before booking. Group sessions can be a useful way to learn and heal but, like all things, it needs to be the right time for you.
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Meriel's next Trauma Toolkit starts in September 2025 in Haverfordwest hosted by Pathway Counselling. Enquiries/registration: admin@pembrokeshirecaresociety.org.uk