https://theresabrockway.co.uk/creative-therapist-confidence-and-presentations-coach daily 1.0 2025-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3d1ce0f8170d22e371269b/1604571619009-8LLNHNGAEZJSDQE0RU3Q/snappy-shutters-Jzq9u0L7wuo-unsplash.jpg Creative Therapist, Confidence and Presentations Coach - Individual Therapy A tailored therapeutic approach combining Hypnotherapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Creative Psychotherapy, Dramatherapy and Mindfulness. Therapy for Individuals, Children and Adolescents. Create change and transform your life and feelings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3d1ce0f8170d22e371269b/1603806342561-EJY461M7AFB0TDCV21PI/workplace+photo+homepage.jpg Creative Therapist, Confidence and Presentations Coach - In the workplace - workshops and training for business, groups and schools Group training sessions, seminars and workshops including Stress Management, Mindfulness and Team Building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3d1ce0f8170d22e371269b/1604571807052-P4UI4AZ8RKAVJUQBOG15/doran-erickson-gdAuwo-qj5k-unsplash.jpg Creative Therapist, Confidence and Presentations Coach - Confidence Coaching I can give you the tools and resources you need to become the naturally confident person you want to be. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3d1ce0f8170d22e371269b/1604571668980-QROFKJED8X1KVUEMW0YJ/col-legi-de-farmaceutics-de-barcelona-yjydNkTYy4U-unsplash.jpg Creative Therapist, Confidence and Presentations Coach - Presentations & Vocal Coaching Learn the tools to enjoy speaking confidently and effectively in public. Coaching for presentations, speeches, professional and non professional speakers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3d1ce0f8170d22e371269b/1603797228917-O50FE8IQ72W3H2IOMEW3/7da795_d0536c4a05e14b8c9e6777914dc195f9_mv2.png Creative Therapist, Confidence and Presentations Coach https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3d1ce0f8170d22e371269b/1603797197719-JDHT1S2GONY4R0LPVKAO/ghr+logo+%28registered+practitioner%29+-+CMYK+-+print.jpg Creative Therapist, Confidence and Presentations Coach https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3d1ce0f8170d22e371269b/1603797283664-2BETF4W8F4KMY9PHJLSL/Full%2540300x-100.jpg Creative Therapist, Confidence and Presentations Coach https://theresabrockway.co.uk/creative-psychotherapy-and-dramatherapy daily 0.75 2020-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3d1ce0f8170d22e371269b/1603708562444-N5MLTZXUNG4304D31G86/ainsley-myles-1siMbP3FrPM-unsplash.jpg Creative Psychotherapy and Dramatherapy - Time to Talk and Reflect Our lives can often feel overwhelming and time for our mental health is rarely prioritised. Expectations from others and ourselves, our real and perceived responsibilities, everyday worries to concerns over the environment, emails, social media and pressures to digitally interact can leave us feeling worn down with anxieties that have no outlet. Past and recent experiences can stay with us and be difficult to move away from. Give yourself the time and space just to stop - connect with your feelings, explore and reflect on your experiences, alongside a therapist who will guide and support you with compassion and empathy. You may wish to talk and be heard, share conversation and listen or just simply to quietly be yourself with no judgement from others. Therapy guides us into deeper connection with ourselves and encourages us to develop the self understanding and compassion needed to heal. A safe and confidential space to be heard and to tune in and listen to your own inner voices. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3d1ce0f8170d22e371269b/1603707714370-UHWKAH9EOISMSWSGFWPX/patrick-tomasso-Oaqk7qqNh_c-unsplash.jpg Creative Psychotherapy and Dramatherapy - Tell your Story The narrative or story that we tell ourselves about our lives is key to how we feel about ourselves. Sometimes finding a way to take a new perspective on our personal stories can be a way to begin feeling better about ourselves. But before we can move forward, we sometimes need our experiences to be heard and to feel them deeply understood by another. Only then can we really think about the possibility of changing our life narrative. In Dramatherapy, stories and myths are sometimes used to reflect upon, identify with and to explore and connect with the 'Archetypes' (Jung), in our own lives. Sometimes clients wish to create and work with their own stories. These metaphors can bring new ways of understanding and different perspectives to the issues they are working on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3d1ce0f8170d22e371269b/1603708480055-PKFOZLR4ZD35U1VNE84V/TheresaBrockway14.09.2020_-24.jpg Creative Psychotherapy and Dramatherapy - Working with the Body The connection between mind and body has long been accepted and practised in eastern philosophy. In western medicine, this way of understanding ourselves as holistic beings is now starting to be much more accepted, researched and developed. The mind and the body hold each other in balance, each affecting the other. The body is continually sending signals to the mind, alerting it to emotions felt through bodily sensations, think of the term 'gut feeling', or through tensions, often in the shoulders and back. But much of the time I meet clients who are cut of from these signals of the body and who feel uncomfortable even being too aware of it. In Dramatherapy, we sometimes see peoples history, experiences and trauma as being held in the body. Trauma, stress and negative experience can manifest through bodily issues such as IBS, self harm, chronic pain or eating disorders. Through embodied work in Dramatherapy, we can start tuning in and learning to really 'be in' our bodies, acknowledging what they have to say to us. We can learn to become comfortable and happy in our own bodies. By learning to accept and love our bodies we start to foster a more secure sense of being in and interacting with the world. By feeling more comfortable and open to being 'Seen' by others, we bring a renewed confidence joy to our lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3d1ce0f8170d22e371269b/1603708318498-ICWSE3FCQ8DE47DN4Y4C/oliver-hihn-D0tD6n3Ao8E-unsplash.jpg Creative Psychotherapy and Dramatherapy - Working with the voice and breath I sometimes like to see breath as 'Soul' – when we stop breathing we stop living. But often, people have lost connection with their breath and how to breathe in the way that their body needs. Many people feel held back and self concious of their own voices. Allowing ourselves to connect with our breath and to find freedom and confidence in using our voices in any way we wish, can be truly transformational in terms of happiness and confidence. In Dramatherapy, we can work with releasing breath, voice and sound to further enable the connection of body and 'Soul'. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3d1ce0f8170d22e371269b/1603708375328-SSZD4GDAKEEUT5W5LVLJ/TheresaBrockway14.09.2020_-23.jpg Creative Psychotherapy and Dramatherapy - Increasing Creativity in Work and Life By learning to improvise through drama, to accept ours and others ideas, and not to block them, we can move through blocks in our lives and also in our creative work. We start to become more aware of our own internal impulses and not to block of judge them. We stop overthinking and become more spontaneous, more original, more ourselves, more fun and more successful in our endeavours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3d1ce0f8170d22e371269b/1603708813085-4IRY85Y2EN82JWZM6C4H/ashley-batz-betmVWGYcLY-unsplash.jpg Creative Psychotherapy and Dramatherapy - Ritual Ritual is something that helps us find meaning in and hold our experiences, in terms of marking important moments in our lives. But for most of us, weddings, funerals and birthdays are the only rituals we now participate in. Some clients find it helpful, when working through a transition in their life, or perhaps when trying to move away from a difficult experience, to create their own ritual in therapy, to mark its importance, meaning and to allow themselves to move on to the next phase of life. https://theresabrockway.co.uk/individual-therapy daily 0.75 2020-11-06 https://theresabrockway.co.uk/general-3 daily 0.75 2020-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847892040-G53S9LDM2C6KT8IQ3Z95/image-asset.jpeg General 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847890812-TYA3V7W44Y5HEEQSI69P/image-asset.jpeg General 3 https://theresabrockway.co.uk/about daily 0.75 2023-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3d1ce0f8170d22e371269b/1604659688970-NWU35RRB6L3SPZHMU0S9/Theresa-16.jpg About Me My background is in theatre and performance. After leaving Drama school, I supplemented my work in theatre, tv and commercials by facilitating groups of young people in Drama, Shakespeare and voice for over 20 years. It still inspires me to see how quickly transformation can occur when working with people on their voice and body language. The confidence produced seems to pervade all areas of life, quite literally turning things around for people that previously thought of themselves as shy or introverted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3d1ce0f8170d22e371269b/1603796711463-DZKEKLQ0OA8215DPY1YO/ghr+logo+%28registered+practitioner%29+-+CMYK+-+print.jpg About Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3d1ce0f8170d22e371269b/1603796935648-A0MUVOB1XI4GLQXP1J78/Full%2540300x-100.jpg About Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3d1ce0f8170d22e371269b/1603796836507-D6WYIMMPL4JXNZZHIJ3B/7da795_d0536c4a05e14b8c9e6777914dc195f9_mv2.png About Me https://theresabrockway.co.uk/cognitive-behavioural-hypnotherapy daily 0.75 2020-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3d1ce0f8170d22e371269b/1604572218239-0VJL4IABFGNZWJKP59DL/linus-nylund-Q5QspluNZmM-unsplash.jpg Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy - Hypnotherapy Hypnotherapy uses imaginative visual suggestions and evocative words to affect real change in clients' lives. Our bodies are powerfully affected from day to day by the things that we think, recall how your heart rate can increase whilst watching a horror film! When understood and used in the right way, harnessing the power of suggestion can have incredible benefits. Clients can have imaginative experiences in therapy that are almost as powerful to the mind and body, as they would be if they had experienced them in real life. In hypnosis, you can use your imagination to picture your goals and change the way you think, feel and behave to achieve them. Hypnosis is proven to help with a wide range of issues and is shown to be particularly helpful for dealing with anxiety management, pain management, sleep problems, stress-related issues and breaking habits. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3d1ce0f8170d22e371269b/1604655942685-D8D66UAOWD74YRU7GEN6/vladislav-babienko-KTpSVEcU0XU-unsplash.jpg Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, is a form of talking therapy which helps you identify negative patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving and replace them with more helpful ones. It is based on the approach that our thoughts, feelings, behaviours and how our body feels are all connected. By changing one of these we can alter the others. The focus is on dealing with your problems in the here and now rather than analysing the past, which helps to make treatment faster. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and the NHS recommend CBT in the treatment of anxiety and depression, and there is also good evidence that CBT can help with many other conditions such as panic attacks, phobias, sleep problems and stress-related conditions. Research shows that hypnosis, in combination with CBT, can be more effective than CBT alone for many conditions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3d1ce0f8170d22e371269b/1603794413816-7Z3EYHBK8OFLT3MXWJ2S/diana-deaver-mlFEWokWF9g-unsplash.jpg Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy - Mindfulness Mindfulness is about being fully present and aware of your emotions, physical sensations and everything that’s going on around you, from moment to moment. Sometimes our attention can become focussed on unhelpful thoughts, for example worrying about something that might happen in the future. By practising mindfulness, you can learn to recognise when this happens, and choose when to pay attention to your thoughts and when it’s more helpful to let them go. Mindfulness is increasingly recognised by many, including the NHS as having significant and wide-ranging benefits, especially if you’re dealing with stress and anxiety. https://theresabrockway.co.uk/coming-soon daily 0.75 2020-09-14 https://theresabrockway.co.uk/public-speaking daily 0.75 2020-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3d1ce0f8170d22e371269b/1600936298545-FKW34Z6FPPJPVKSSPMC9/TheresaBrockway14.09.2020_-12.jpg Public Speaking Vocal Coaching I trained and worked as a professional actress for over 15 years and still work as a host and presenter both live and online. I am experienced in knowing how to speak so that people will listen. I know what its like to feel the nerves, the stage-fright, the moment where you cannot remember your lines and you want the ground to swallow you up. I also know the exhilaration of knowing you are connecting with and moving your audience, the power of giving a brilliant speech that you can feel making an impression and leaving a message. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3d1ce0f8170d22e371269b/1604586975570-0Y9P3MJZI739SMXN2DZA/miguel-henriques-w5HePd_eKx0-unsplash.jpg Public Speaking Vocal Coaching - Transforming fear into confidence If you have fear around public speaking, you are not alone. 74% of the population claim to have public speaking anxiety! If you have fears around public speaking, I am here to transform it into confidence. You may even find you start to enjoy it! We will build your confidence, using a powerful combination of CBT and visualisation to identify and overcome any self-limiting beliefs. I will teach you the tools of applied relaxation and assertiveness. We will look at body language and how to look and feel comfortable in front of any audience. I will give you the vocal skills to tell your story effectively and make an authentic connection through your speech. You'll get expert feedback and direction so that you can refine your presentation and communicate authentically and powerfully. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3d1ce0f8170d22e371269b/1603726515362-AWPA5WWLS5V4II0CS2W8/Theresa-16.jpg Public Speaking Vocal Coaching - Bespoke coaching for every situation You may be preparing for an important speech at work, a big presentation, or wanting to feel more confident standing up in weekly meetings. You may be preparing for a keynote speech or you may be preparing to take the stage as a best man/woman. Perhaps you are a teacher, wanting to feel more effective in standing. Whatever your situation, we will have a 20 minute free telephone consultation to explore how I can address your specific needs. I work bespoke to your level of confidence, ability and needs. If you’re a complete novice, we’ll start at the beginning. If you’re experienced with some bad habits, we’ll work them out. And if you want help crafting a mesmerising presentation, then that’ll be our focus. We can concentrate on confidence, preparation and delivery or I can also support you in reviewing the structure and content of your speech. I can also deliver public speaking training to groups. https://theresabrockway.co.uk/mindfulness daily 0.75 2020-10-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3d1ce0f8170d22e371269b/1603709378768-4V0UGHVFCEV1RHUBSH62/javardh-FL6rma2jePU-unsplash.jpg Mindfulness Training - What is Mindfulness? The practice of mindfulness is increasingly being recognised as an effective treatment for mental health issues, including anxiety and stress. But what is Mindfulness? I might define mindfulness as giving an open, curious and accepting attention to my present experience, without attempting to avoid or hang on to any aspect of it. When we are mindful, we open ourselves to fully experience what is. It is a way of being that we can bring to everything we do. I bring a mindful approach to all my work with clients. I support people to adopt a reflective, open, curious and non-judging attitude to their issues. I try to create and maintain a mindful and open therapeutic relationship between us. If appropriate and helpful, I may teach a client mindfulness practises. There are many ways to define mindfulness, but having an experience of being mindful, will give you a sense of what it might mean to you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3d1ce0f8170d22e371269b/1603706598532-IWGOQYWNQ95BUYRZKP8B/markus-spiske-oaHC6AK6fyI-unsplash.jpg Mindfulness Training - Mindfulness exercise Set aside 5 or 10 minutes for this exercise. Find somewhere quiet and comfortable to sit, with your back upright but not tense, your hands on your lap. Close your eyes and try listening for any sounds you might hear outside of your room or building. Now move your focus into the room you are in and notice any sounds you can her there. Next, bring your attention inside your body, listen to the sound of your breath and perhaps you may notice other sounds, like your heart beating. Notice where your attention goes to first in your body. Scan your body with your mind noticing what physical sensations are there. Notice parts of the body that feel tense and relax them if you can. Your face, your shoulders.... Notice where your body is being supported by the chair, cushion or floor. Notice how your clothes feel on your skin, the feel of the cool or warm air. Bring your attention to your breath for a few minutes. Don’t try to control it in any way, just allow it to do what it wants and notice it as it happens. Any thoughts or sensations that distract you, notice them without judgement, and return the focus to your breath. When you are ready, gently open your eyes and stretch your body bringing focus slowly back to the room around you. https://theresabrockway.co.uk/workshops daily 0.75 2020-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3d1ce0f8170d22e371269b/1600938549508-5CHOON7CQ3YYDKXBBYF2/TheresaBrockway14.09.2020_-17.jpg Workshops for business, wellbeing groups and schools - Training sessions For managers and business leaders looking to optimise the performance of their teams by building up their stress management capabilities, I provide training sessions to help create a positive atmosphere in your workplace. Stress management and resilience building Mindfullness Relaxation skills Team building Creative thinking and spontaneity Public Speaking and Assertiveness https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3d1ce0f8170d22e371269b/1604656348977-NP0U1PYO3EZY6Y8ZPAR3/hannah-busing-Zyx1bK9mqmA-unsplash.jpg Workshops for business, wellbeing groups and schools - Groups With 20 years experience of facilitating groups, both adults and children, I offer both workshops and group therapy sessions. I have facilitated workshop sessions on relaxation, overcoming shyness, mindfulness, voice and drama and other topics for a range of support and wellbeing groups. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3d1ce0f8170d22e371269b/1604659605670-MNVGEDRRFIUCBIIPTYXY/Theresa-34.jpg Workshops for business, wellbeing groups and schools - Schools I work freelance in schools offering both group and individual dramatherapy. I also offer workshops in Drama, Shakespeare and Wellbeing topics. Since 2003 I have regularly facilitated workshops across the UK for the Shakespeare Schools Foundation and worked with Wizard Theatre, running drama projects with children and delivering teacher training. https://theresabrockway.co.uk/contact daily 0.75 2020-11-05 https://theresabrockway.co.uk/confidence-coaching daily 0.75 2020-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3d1ce0f8170d22e371269b/1604572372082-IO6SWO9NSVN22RRBU7LF/doran-erickson-gdAuwo-qj5k-unsplash.jpg Confidence Coaching In life, we all have periods of time where low confidence hits us. Sometimes life events and experiences leave us feeling our confidence has left us. We start questioning our actions and decisions and underestimate our value; not because we are incapable, but because we lack confidence. Or perhaps you have never felt able to really shine as you know you could. You may feel your inhibitions have always held you back from taking opportunities and living your best life. I can support you and give you the tools and resources you need to become the naturally confident person you want to be. https://theresabrockway.co.uk/what-to-expect daily 0.75 2023-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3d1ce0f8170d22e371269b/1604659373964-SHX7U2O9DMAGMY00N2H8/Theresa-8.jpg What to expect https://theresabrockway.co.uk/fertility-and-birth-support daily 0.75 2025-01-28 https://theresabrockway.co.uk/closing-the-bones daily 0.75 2025-01-28 https://theresabrockway.co.uk/massage-ritual-for-perimenopause daily 0.75 2024-11-26