The Healing Space

08/06/2026

Children rarely understand the full story of what’s happening around them.

But they feel the atmosphere.

The tension in a room.
The silence after arguments.
The change in someone’s tone.

Over time many children become highly attuned to emotional shifts in their environment.

This can look like maturity.

But often it’s a nervous system learning to stay alert.

If you grew up scanning rooms to work out how everyone else felt, you’re not alone.

07/06/2026

🎉 Understanding ADHD in the Therapy Room currently has 25% off!

For a limited time, this self-paced CPD course is available for just £44.25 instead of £59.

If you've ever found yourself thinking:

🧠 "This young person understands what we're talking about, so why isn't it transferring outside the therapy room?"

🧠 "They keep saying 'I don't know' and I'm not sure if it's avoidance, overwhelm, or something else."

🧠 "Something isn't quite landing, but I can't work out why."

This course is designed for those moments.

You'll learn how ADHD actually shows up in therapy sessions, including:

✨ Executive functioning difficulties
✨ Emotional regulation differences
✨ Rejection sensitivity
✨ Masking and shame
✨ Why "non-compliance" is often overload
✨ Practical ADHD-informed adaptations for therapy

My foundation is person-centred, and this training is grounded in real therapy-room experience working with children, teenagers, adults, and families.

Rather than focusing on symptoms alone, we'll explore what ADHD actually looks like in the therapy room, how it can be misunderstood, and how small adaptations can make sessions feel more accessible, effective, and engaging.

💷 Currently £44.25 (usually £59)

🔗 https://thehealingspacetherapy.co.uk/shop/ols/products/understanding-adhd-in-the-therapy-room

⏳ Limited time only.

Who this training is for This training is designed for counsellors, psychotherapists and other mental health professionals working with children and adolescents with ADHD, or who suspect ADHD may be influencing the therapeutic process. While the clinical examples are drawn from child and adolescent....

07/06/2026

🎉 My ADHD therapy courses currently have 25% off!

For a limited time, Creative Tools for Working with ADHD in Therapy is available for just £44.25 instead of £59.

If you've ever found yourself thinking:

🧠 "I know there's something important here, but my client keeps losing track..."

🧠 "We're going round in circles..."

🧠 "Talking about it doesn't seem to be helping..."

This course is designed for those moments.

You'll learn practical, ADHD-friendly ways to:

✨ Reduce cognitive load
✨ Externalise thoughts and feelings
✨ Use whiteboard mapping effectively
✨ Introduce movement naturally into sessions
✨ Support engagement without becoming more directive

My foundation is person centred, and everything in this training comes from real therapy room experience working with both adults and young people.

No fluff. No complicated theory.

Just practical tools you can start using straight away.

💷 Currently £44.25 (usually £59)

🔗 https://thehealingspacetherapy.co.uk/shop/ols/products/creative-tools

⏳ The discounted price is only available for a limited time.

Creative Tools for Working with ADHD in Therapy A practical, in-room training for counsellors and psychotherapists This training is designed for therapists who want to feel more confident and flexible when working with ADHD in the therapy room — particularly when sessions don’t follow a predicta...

07/06/2026

Many adults were not taught to trust their emotional world.

They were taught to:
- minimise it
- question it
-explain it away
- or feel guilty for it.

So eventually, self-doubt becomes automatic.

Not because they are weak.

Because somewhere along the way, trusting themselves stopped feeling safe.

05/06/2026

Before children talk about trauma, attachment or family stress, they often communicate safety through behaviour.

Where they sit.
What they touch.
Whether they explore the room.

These moments are easy to overlook, but they can reveal how a child is experiencing the therapeutic relationship.

Safety often shows itself quietly.

And when safety grows, the work deepens.

02/06/2026

Therapy can be incredibly rewarding… but also surprisingly isolating sometimes.

You can spend all day holding space for other people and still rarely get chance to sit with people who genuinely get the realities of this work.

So, if you’re a therapist local to Cheshire and fancy connecting with other therapists over coffee, I’ve added a Therapists Coffee & Connection meet-up to the website ☕️

I wanted this to feel a little different from some of the more unstructured coffee meet-ups where everyone politely chats for ten minutes and secretly wonders what on earth to say next 😅

So each meet-up will have a gentle theme or discussion prompt to help conversations flow naturally. Nothing formal. Not a workshop. Just enough structure to make it feel easier to settle in, chat and connect.

Our first theme:

The bits nobody tells you about private practice.

The awkward bits. The expensive mistakes. The surprises. The moments where you think… why did nobody warn me about this?!

📍 Lymm, Cheshire
🗓 Sunday 28th June
☕ Small, relaxed group

Spaces are intentionally limited to keep it comfortable and conversational.

Reserve your spot here: https://thehealingspacetherapy.co.uk/bookings

Would honestly be really lovely to connect and see some therapist faces in real life 🤍

02/06/2026

Being the “easy child” often came at a cost.

The child who:
- didn’t ask for much
- kept the peace
- didn’t make things harder
- adapted quickly
- stayed quiet
- often learnt something very early:

My needs make life harder for other people.

So adulthood can quietly become a repetition of that lesson.

Over-functioning.
Over-giving.
Over-explaining.
Being understanding.
Being low maintenance.

Whilst quietly wondering why relationships still feel exhausting.

Sometimes healing begins by asking:

What parts of me had to disappear to feel loved?

01/06/2026

One of the most common things adults say in therapy is:

“I knew something felt off… but I ignored it.”

Not because they are naive.

Because many people learnt to mistrust themselves.

Especially if they grew up around:
- inconsistency
- emotional unpredictability
- criticism
- guilt
people whose needs mattered more than theirs.

So now, even when their nervous system signals: this doesn’t feel good
they override it.

Sometimes healing begins by becoming curious about what your body has been trying to say all along.

30/05/2026

Children are deeply loyal to their caregivers.

Even when something hurts them, they often minimise it, excuse it or keep it quiet.

Not because it didn’t matter.

Because protecting the relationship can feel more important than telling the truth.

Understanding this dynamic can change how we listen when children speak about difficult experiences.

28/05/2026

Children who mask heavily often struggle to access or express different emotional states directly.

Especially children who are:
• highly adaptive
• anxious
• neurodivergent
• hypervigilant
• or emotionally parentified.

Symbolic tools can create just enough distance for something more authentic to emerge safely.

And often, what becomes important is not: getting the “right” interpretation
but noticing:
• what gets protected
• what gets hidden
• what feels acceptable
• and what the child allows another person to see.