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Inside Out Trauma Counselling Resolve anxiety, stress, light depression, overwhelm and PTSD symptoms in a fast, safe and non re-traumatising therapy. It only takes 3 weeks.

Stop being in survival mode and get back to thriving in life.

Have you been living in "I wish" for longer than you'd like to admit?I wish things were different.I wish I lost that wei...
08/08/2026

Have you been living in "I wish" for longer than you'd like to admit?

I wish things were different.
I wish I lost that weight.
I wish I could finally move forward.
I wish I feel good enough.
I wish I would belong....

There is nothing wrong with the wishing. It often means a part of you already knows change is possible.

But "I wish" keeps the life you want at arm's length.

"I will" invites it closer.

The shift is small in words and enormous in meaning.

"I wish" waits for the feeling to arrive first.
"I will" takes the step and lets the feeling catch up.

You don't have to feel ready. You don't have to have it all figured out.

You only have to be willing and give it a go.

Willing to try. Willing to be honest to yourself. Willing to believe that healing is being written into your story, even now.

So take a moment today and listen to how you speak to yourself.

Where have you been saying "I wish" when your heart is quietly ready for "I will"?

You are more capable than the wishing lets you feel.

And you do not have to make that shift on your own. 🤍

Debbie from Inside Out Counselling

YOUR BODY KEEPS THE SCORE !You can be sitting in a safe room, on a quiet Sunday, with nothing wrong. And still feel like...
05/08/2026

YOUR BODY KEEPS THE SCORE !

You can be sitting in a safe room, on a quiet Sunday, with nothing wrong. And still feel like something is about to go wrong.... feeling that dread of the next moment...

That gap between what you know and what your body feels is one of the most misunderstood parts of trauma.

1. STUCK
It's like your mind has moved on, but your nervous system hasn't been told yet.
Your conscious mind knows that it's over, but the nervous system is still stuck in the moments of that traumatic situation... can you relate?

2. ANXIETY / FEAR
That feeling of not being able to breath, your heart beating fast, sweat... and every part of you is in ALERT mode.
We call this: Fight, flight or freeze mode.
Your whole system is flooded with fear of the un-known. Fear that the past experiences might repeat.

3. WORST CASE SCENARIOS
In that state, your mind will most likely wonder to all the "what if's" and worst case scenarios.
The scary thing in this is, that you will never know if any of this will ever occur.
You'll spend so much energy on those thoughts but they are not factual truth.

None of this means that something is wrong with you. It means your body learned to survive, and it's still doing the job it was given.

It's time to re-wire your brain and re-learn some of those nasty beliefs that keep you stuck in trauma.

When you're ready to help it learn something new, I'm here.

Debbie from Inside Out 🌿

I almost didn't book.I was scared therapy would dig everything up and leave me more broken than when I walked in. That f...
04/08/2026

I almost didn't book.

I was scared therapy would dig everything up and leave me more broken than when I walked in. That fear kept me stuck for a long time.

What I didn't know is that TRTP (The Richards Trauma Process) doesn't ask you to relive the worst moments on repeat. It's a structured three-session process (2h each) that gently helps your nervous system move from "I'm not safe" to "it's over, I'm safe now."

You don't need the perfect words to begin. "I'm not coping like I used to" is enough. 🌿

Give the TRTP healing Therapy a go:

It's safe.
It's manageable.
It's structured.
It's healing.
It's calming.

Debbie from Inside Out

INTEGRATING CHANGE >>>Change almost always feels heavier at the very start than at any point after.That first intention,...
01/08/2026

INTEGRATING CHANGE >>>

Change almost always feels heavier at the very start than at any point after.

That first intention, the quiet decision that something needs to shift, can take more courage than anyone around you will ever see.

Then comes the action. A single step. Often a shaky one.

And this is where so many people quietly lose motivation and momentum.

The practice is repetitive. The consistency is unglamorous. Some days you show up to the work and wonder if any of it is landing at all.

We want you to know that this stage is real healing in motion.

Small, repeated steps have a way of becoming habit. And habit, over time, becomes something deeper. It becomes who you are.

The person you are working toward is being formed in the ordinary, unremarkable days you might be tempted to dismiss.

So if you are somewhere in that messy middle right now, keep going gently.
You are further along than the feeling suggests.

And you do not have to walk this part alone.
I'm here to support you.

Debbie from Inside Out Counselling

She sat back on the couch after her third TRTP session and said, "I didn't realise how long I'd been holding my breath."...
30/07/2026

She sat back on the couch after her third TRTP session and said, "I didn't realise how long I'd been holding my breath."

Not a dramatic breakthrough. No tears. Just a slow exhale, shoulders finally softening, chin lifting like her body had been given permission to rest.

For years, her nervous system had been braced for something. A door slamming. A tone shifting. A memory rising without warning. Even in safe rooms, with safe people, her chest stayed tight.

TRTP (The Richards Trauma Process) is a structured approach that works with the subconscious and the body, not just the story. Over three sessions, it gently helps your system register what your mind has known for a long time:

it's over. You're safe now.

That's the moment we look for. Not the words. The exhale. The shoulders dropping without her noticing. The quiet.

If your body has been bracing for longer than you can remember, healing is possible, at a pace that honours what you've been through. You don't have to carry this alone 🌿 I got you.

Debbie from Inside Out

YOU CAN EXPECT TO...You left the session feeling worse than when you walked in, and you weren't sure if that was normal....
29/07/2026

YOU CAN EXPECT TO...

You left the session feeling worse than when you walked in, and you weren't sure if that was normal...

You also weren't sure you were allowed to say so.

That moment, sitting in your car afterwards with your chest tight and your thoughts racing, is one of the ways healing gets stuck. Not because therapy failed you, but because no one told you what you were allowed to expect from the person sitting across from you.

So here it is, in plain words:

You are allowed to expect to feel emotionally safe before anyone asks you to go deeper.

You are allowed to ask what we are doing and why, in language that actually makes sense.

You are allowed to set the pace, and to say "that's enough for today" without apologising for it.

You are allowed to ask what happens if you leave a session feeling worse, and to know there's a plan for that, not just a "see you next week".

If faith is part of how you make sense of your life, you are allowed to bring that into the room. Not to have it set aside or gently worked around, but taken seriously as part of who you are.

And you are allowed to ask, honestly, whether this approach is actually working for you. That question isn't rude. It's part of the work.

Trauma teaches so many people to suppress their own needs to keep the room calm. If that's been you, hear me: your needs are not an inconvenience to your healing. They are the compass for it.

When you're ready, I'm here for you.

Debbie from Inside Out 🌿

26/07/2026

EMOTIONAL CONNECTION

There is something quietly powerful about sitting in a room full of therapists and hearing, again and again, how much we all long to be truly seen.

Last week I completed training in EFT, Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples. It is an approach that helps partners move past the surface arguments and reach the softer place underneath, where the real longing lives. The longing to matter to someone. The longing to be heard. The longing to know that when we reach, someone reaches back.

What struck me most was how universal this is.

Every couple, no matter how different their stories, seemed to be asking the same questions of each other.
Are you there for me?
Do I matter to you?
Can I count on you when it hurts?

And sitting with that, something deeper settled in me. 🌿

We are wired for connection. It is a real need, woven into our nervous systems, our hearts, our whole being. We were created for relationship. For me, as a person of faith, this points to something even greater: our longing for connection with each other reflects our longing for connection with God. We were made for both.

Whether or not faith is part of your story, the truth of your need for connection remains.
It is how you were designed.

If you and your partner have been feeling the distance grow, or if the same painful cycles keep pulling you apart, please know there is a way back to each other. Learning how to reach, and how to receive, can change everything.

With warmth,
Debbie
Inside Out Counselling

There is a word for what happens when a memory stops controlling your present.Memory reconsolidation.It sounds clinical,...
26/07/2026

There is a word for what happens when a memory stops controlling your present.

Memory reconsolidation.

It sounds clinical, but stay with me, because this is the quiet science behind why TRTP works differently to talk therapy.

Your brain stores traumatic memories with an emotional charge attached. That charge is what makes your chest tighten when you hear a certain tone of voice. What makes your body flinch at a smell, a date on the calendar, a room that looks a little too much like that room.

The memory itself isn't the problem. The emotional charge connected to it is.

Memory reconsolidation is your brain's own natural process of taking a stored memory off the shelf, updating it, and putting it back without that same emotional firing. The event stays. The story stays. But the alarm bell stops ringing every time your nervous system brushes past it.

TRTP (The Richards Trauma Process) is built around creating the exact conditions your brain needs for that update to happen. Safely. In a structured way. Without asking you to re-live the details over and over hoping something will shift.

This is why so many of my clients describe the same thing afterward. The memory is still there when they look for it, but it feels further away. Quieter. Like a photograph instead of a live wire.

You are not broken for still reacting to something that ended years ago. Your brain has simply been holding a memory with the charge still switched on, and no one has shown it how to switch it off.

If you have been carrying something too heavy for too long, you don't have to keep white-knuckling your way through it. There is a process for this, and there is language for why it works.

When you are ready, I'm here for you.

Debbie from Inside Out Counselling 🌿

HOW DOES THAT FIRST SESSION LOOK LIKE ???I always say that the first session is to get to know each other.To check me ou...
24/07/2026

HOW DOES THAT FIRST SESSION LOOK LIKE ???

I always say that the first session is to get to know each other.
To check me out. To figure out if I might be a person who you feel comfortable with, a person you could trust and feel comfortable with.

You don't have to tell me everything in day one.
Not the full story. Not the details you've never said out loud. Not the parts you're still trying to make sense of yourself.

A good therapist will never rush your disclosure. Because emotional safety has to come first, otherwise your nervous system stays braced and the work simply can't land.

I GOT YOU.
I SEE YOU.
I AM IN THIS WITH YOU.

Here's what that actually looks like in my room:

You get to choose what you share, and when. You get to say "I'm not ready to go there yet" without needing to explain why. You get to slow down mid-sentence. You get to sit in silence. You get to ask any questions that are on your heart.

TRTP (The Richards Trauma Process, the modality we use) is structured this way on purpose. Your body doesn't need to relive every detail to heal. It needs to feel safe enough to finally let go.

If you've ever left a therapy session feeling more exposed than held, that wasn't your failure. It was a pace that didn't honour what you'd been through.

When you're ready, we'll go at the speed your system can trust. Not a moment before.

Debbie from Inside Out 🌿

You did the breathing work. The journalling. The podcasts. The caffeine cut-off at midday.And still, you struggle to sto...
22/07/2026

You did the breathing work. The journalling. The podcasts. The caffeine cut-off at midday.

And still, you struggle to stop overthinking, you can't get to sleep. You chest still feels tight when waking up...

That's not you failing at healing. That's a nervous system that learned to stay on guard - in survival mode, and hasn't been shown yet that the moment of pain has passed.

Anxiety isn't only a thinking problem. It's a pattern your body is holding, often long after your mind has moved on. Which is why insight alone rarely settles it.

If you've been doing all the right things and still feel wired, exhausted, and braced for something bad, you're not broken. Your body learned to protect you. Healing is about helping it learn something new.

I wish more people knew that there is a transformational therapy (TRTP) before they started trying to "fix" their anxiety on the surface.

At inside out counselling we are not just "managing" your symptoms. My aim is to reset your nervous system to:
"I'm safe. It's over."

When you're ready, I'm here for you.

Debbie from Inside Out 🌿

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