Lisa Fox Counselling and Psychotherapy

Lisa Fox Counselling and Psychotherapy BACP Accredited Humanistic & Integrative Counsellor and Psychotherapist. A supportive space for those who’ve never felt they fit in.

Working remotely or face-to-face in Edwinstowe. Trauma & abuse recovery • Neurodivergent & LGBTQIA+ affirming.

I'm taking two weeks off and stepping away from social media while I do.Rest is something I talk about a lot in my work,...
18/08/2026

I'm taking two weeks off and stepping away from social media while I do.

Rest is something I talk about a lot in my work, and it's something I try to practise too. Not because anything is wrong, but because regular, proper rest is part of how I stay well, stay present, and continue to show up fully for the people I work with. A break before you need one is always better than waiting until you do.

So for the next two weeks I'll be offline, resting, recharging, and doing absolutely nothing particularly useful.

If you'd like to get in touch about therapy I'll be back on Monday the 31st of August and responding to enquiries from then. I'd love to hear from you.

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This is what you'll see when you come to work with me online.For a long time the therapy world treated face to face work...
14/08/2026

This is what you'll see when you come to work with me online.

For a long time the therapy world treated face to face work as the gold standard, and the assumption that the best therapy happened in a room, across from each other, in person, went largely unchallenged. And while there is real and genuine value in that kind of work, I think it's worth questioning whether it's the only way, or even always the best way, for every person.

Because for some people, traditional face to face therapy simply isn't accessible. Not just logistically, but in terms of what feels manageable, safe, or even possible. For neurodivergent people, for people who have experienced trauma, for people who have spent a long time feeling like they don't quite fit in the world as it's usually set up, sitting in an unfamiliar room with someone they've just met can be a significant barrier before the work has even begun.

Working online removes some of that. There's something really powerful about being in your own space, on your own sofa, with your own mug of tea and maybe a pet nearby. The things around you that already make you feel safe become part of the therapeutic environment rather than something you have to leave behind at the door.

Working by phone means neither of us can see each other's faces, and for some people that's not a limitation at all. That's precisely what makes it feel safe enough to speak honestly. The relational work doesn't disappear because we're not in the same room. We can still talk about what we might do if we were face to face. I might say, if we were together right now, I'd ask your permission to put my hand on yours, or I might ask if you needed a hug. Those moments still exist and they still matter. They just look a little different.

Online therapy isn't second best. For many people it's simply the best fit. And finding what fits is always the whole point.

I work remotely via phone or Zoom and I'd love to hear from you.

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Some of the most extraordinary minds have felt the most out of place Van Gogh is a good example of this. A mind that fel...
13/08/2026

Some of the most extraordinary minds have felt the most out of place

Van Gogh is a good example of this. A mind that felt everything deeply, differently, and often overwhelmingly. Someone who never quite found where he fitted. And someone who lived without any of the language or support we have now for what he was carrying.

Mental health isn't a modern concept. The struggle has always been there. What's changed is our understanding of it, and what we can now offer people who are in it.

If you've ever felt like your mind works differently, or like you've spent a long time trying to find where you belong, I work remotely via phone or Zoom.

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This picture was sent to me by a friend visiting the Van Gogh exhibition in Nottingham and it stopped me in my tracks.Va...
12/08/2026

This picture was sent to me by a friend visiting the Van Gogh exhibition in Nottingham and it stopped me in my tracks.

Van Gogh is one of those figures in history that I find myself thinking about from a mental health perspective. Because there was someone who was clearly in tremendous pain. Someone who, by many accounts, never quite felt like he belonged. Who struggled to maintain relationships, who felt the world deeply and differently, and who lived at a time when there was no language for what he was experiencing, let alone any meaningful support.

Van Gogh himself wrote about his experience as "a mental or nervous fever or madness, I do not know quite what to say or how to name it." That line stays with me. The not knowing. The absence of framework or understanding. Having to carry something enormous without even the words to describe it.

And yet he painted. Prolifically, passionately, with an intensity that is still felt more than a century later. Art was clearly something that held him. A way of processing, expressing, making sense of a world that didn't always make sense to him. In many ways it was his therapy.

Mental health has always been part of the human experience. It isn't new. What's new is the language, the understanding, and the support available. And while we still have such a long way to go, having the words for what you're experiencing, and someone to sit with you in it, matters more than we can probably measure.

If you've ever felt like you don't quite fit, like the world is a lot, like you're carrying something you don't have the words for yet, that's worth exploring.

I work remotely via phone or Zoom.

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New city. New environment. Lots of sensory input. Lots of potential for overwhelm.But here's the thing. A brilliant day ...
11/08/2026

New city. New environment. Lots of sensory input. Lots of potential for overwhelm.

But here's the thing. A brilliant day out doesn't have to happen by accident.

For a neurodivergent brain, a little preparation isn't rigidity or anxiety. It's self knowledge. Knowing where you're parking before you arrive. Having a rough idea of when you'll stop for food. Bringing sunglasses for sensory overload, a water bottle, a fidget toy. Knowing what time you're heading home so you never feel trapped.

To some people that might sound like a lot of planning for a day out. But there's a difference between avoiding new experiences and knowing what you need to actually enjoy them. Pushing yourself outside your comfort zone doesn't have to mean going in unprepared and hoping for the best. It can mean setting things up so that when you get there, you can actually be present.

That's not a weakness. That's really good self knowledge.

The toolkit looks different for everyone. But having one changes everything.

What's in your toolkit for new places?

I work with neurodivergent clients remotely via phone or Zoom.

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Don't let that face fool you.She looks calm. Serene even. Completely innocent. Like butter wouldn't melt.She is actually...
05/08/2026

Don't let that face fool you.

She looks calm. Serene even. Completely innocent. Like butter wouldn't melt.

She is actually pooping in my flower bed.

This is basically what ADHD paralysis looks like from the outside. Someone sitting completely still, apparently doing nothing, looking like they might be planning something. But on the inside? There's an enormous amount going on. Thoughts racing, tasks looming, the brain cycling through approximately one hundred and forty seven things at once while somehow also being completely unable to start any of them.

It may look like laziness. It may look like avoidance. It may look like someone who just can't be bothered.

It isn't any of those things.

ADHD paralysis is real, it's exhausting, and it happens to people who are trying incredibly hard. The stillness on the outside is almost never the whole story.

Unlike my cat, whose stillness on the outside is very much the whole story. And my flower bed is paying the price.

I work with neurodivergent clients remotely via phone or Zoom.

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Rest doesn't have to look like doing nothing.Switching off completely. Blank mind, still body, no input. For many neurod...
04/08/2026

Rest doesn't have to look like doing nothing.

Switching off completely. Blank mind, still body, no input. For many neurodivergent people that version of rest doesn't work. Pure stillness can feel uncomfortable, even anxiety provoking. The mind needs something to hold onto, just enough to stop it racing, but not so much that it's working hard.

That's what active rest looks like. A hammock and a book. A walk with music. Pottering in the garden. Technically doing something, but the nervous system is settling, the body is still, and the noise has quieted down. That's rest. It just doesn't look the way we've been told it should.

If rest has always felt out of reach it might be worth asking what rest actually looks like for your brain, rather than measuring yourself against a version that was never designed for you.

What's your version of active rest?

I work with neurodivergent clients remotely via phone or Zoom.

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My dog does rest well.She just flops onto a pillow, eyes closed, completely still, no negotiation required.For a lot of ...
03/08/2026

My dog does rest well.

She just flops onto a pillow, eyes closed, completely still, no negotiation required.

For a lot of neurodivergent people, rest is not that simple. With ADHD in particular, there's often an inner motor that keeps running even when the body is exhausted. That drive to move, to do, to keep going does not just switch off because you know you are tired.

It's a tricky thing to talk about because ADHD so often gets read as laziness, when the truth is closer to the opposite. The outside does not always match the inside. Someone can look completely still while their mind is racing through every step of everything they think they "should" be doing. That's ADHD paralysis. Knowing exactly what you want to do and somehow not being able to move toward any of it.

Rest looks different for everyone, and it is worth being curious about what actually works for you rather than what you think should work.

My dog might be onto something though!

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29/07/2026

Resilience for neurodivergent people doesn't always look like strength, sometimes it looks like years of using the wrong tools and wondering why nothing quite worked.

The shift happens when understanding replaces the fighting, when the question changes from what's wrong with me to what does my brain actually need?

That's where the real work begins. And it's some of the most meaningful work there is.

I work with neurodivergent clients remotely via phone or Zoom.

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11:11 on my wrist, a new flower that appeared overnight, a smoothie in the garden on a summer morning. I don't think it'...
27/07/2026

11:11 on my wrist, a new flower that appeared overnight, a smoothie in the garden on a summer morning. I don't think it's a coincidence that the moments that feel most like myself are the simple ones. The quiet ones, the ones that don't need anything added to them.

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