Help If you are worried all the time, don't feel understood or experience overwhelming emotions
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What we offer
About Elizabeth Ewart
I am a BACP accredited, qualified counsellor and I have expertise in working with families, children and young people for over 10 years. I have had extensive training and experience working for West Berkshire Council with referrals from families, schools, social services and CAMHS (Children and Adolescents Mental Health Services) and have enjoyed seeing children, young people and adults go from strength to strength even in the most difficult circumstances. I am qualified at a Level 7 to work with children and young people.
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My Counselling Room
I have a room in Central Swindon. It is spacious so I can be flexible in offering creative therapies or comfortable sitting and talking.
What we offer
Creative Therapies
I work creatively and use sand tray therapy and art materials to help clients express feelings when they are hard to put into words or to process. If you aren’t used to talking about feelings we may start with some resources to help practise this skill and looking at recognising our feelings.
Creativity can help express pent up emotions, soothe strong emotions or get to unconscious links between what we are feeling and where it originated so we can make sense of how it is impacting our present but related to our past.
We can verbally re-write our narratives to tell our story in a more self compassionate way that reduces the pressure of expectations and quiets the critical voices we have bullying us.
We can also discover our identity and feel more whole as a person.
The symbolic nature of play objects can help visualise our problems in a more objective and orderly way so that we can see solutions more easily for our dilemmas.
These methods can facilitate you to access our own strengths and resources that can then help you find a way out of the darkness with my support.
Talking Therapy
I can provide a non-judgmental and compassionate space where you can feel heard.
Therapy is a process and at different stages of therapy different approaches may be required for example at the beginning it is about really building trust and getting to know about your interests and personality. Later on it may be about trying to manage the difficult feelings. At times it’s just about having someone alongside you without achieving goals or making progress but just having someone who cares and values you. As the relationship develops and you start to feel more secure, we begin really looking at the beliefs you hold and how they have kept you safe but now may be holding you back from fulfilment and experimenting with other ways of being. Then learning how to put new habits in place that make you feel grounded or finding that fulfilment in the world.
Overall I use a relational approach which is about "learning by doing" in our relationship whereby you can feel safe to make mistakes and be able to challenge me so that over time you are able to replicate a healthy model on the outside of having the capacity for other people in your life, able to express openly how you feel achieving connection and able to protect your boundaries so that you can feel safe from abuse.
This process may take a couple of months or a few years depending on how long you’ve been experiencing emotional distress and how unsafe you have felt. We review every 6 weeks to assess your needs and to make sure we are working in a way that feels its helping you.
Non-Judgmental
It's important to know that you can say anything you need to without fear or concern about the response you'll receive.
Authentic
I have had my own therapy and therefore, know how it feels to sit on the other side and have processed my own material.
Empathic
I value diversity and individuality and enjoy learning about my clients from all different perspectives and ways of life. Everyone I have worked with has shared something valuable with me.
There is room to regulate and ground yourself using physical movement.
There is the option of working with Bruce, my Pets as Therapy dog who is calm and loving when humans are difficult to trust.
We can use structured exercises or just a free space to explore and discover what feelings might need to be acknowledged.
Contact Details
lizewart@thefeelingshub.com
+44 07470936135
Crowood House, Gipsy Lane, Swindon SN2 8YY