ADULTS
Stress, anxiety, chronic pain, illness, overwhelm...
Experiencing any of these things can make life feel challenging or difficult to manage. If this continues over a prolonged period of time, we may start to feel we are spending much more time in survival mode - fight flight freeze, collapse, impacting sleep and energy levels.
How I can help
A Mind-Body approach focuses on you as a whole person, rather than looking at symptoms and difficulties in isolation. By increasing body awareness and learning techniques to restore nervous system flexibility, you can lower stress in the body, reduce anxiety, ease chronic pain, improve sleep, and have more choice over how you respond, both physically and emotionally. Sessions support you to move forward feeling stronger, healthier, and more at ease in yourself.
"The techniques Jane passed on through our subsequent meetings were not only invaluable,
but are exercises that I can honestly see myself using for the rest of my life. In helping me
to connect back to my body, she showed me how to fully relax so I could deal with the challenges
of daily life, from a much calmer and well balanced point of view."
John
Work with me
I offer a holistic approach to your physical and emotional health, providing single therapies or multi-therapy programmes to meet your individual needs. We can work on a session by session basis or you can choose a focused programme of care.
I also run courses, workshops and retreats for groups.
I offer a free initial chat to discuss what is happening for you and whether my approach may be helpful.
1:1 multi-therapy programmes
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Stress Reduction & Burnout Recovery - 6 week programme
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Improving Function and Relieving Chronic Pain - 8 week programme
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Reducing Anxiety and Easing Overwhelm - 6 week programme
Single Therapies
Integrative Somatic Therapy
When the nervous system becomes disregulated, it can affect how we experience the world around us. We may feel overwhelmed, anxious, or disconnected from what our bodies are trying to tell us. Increasing awareness of what is happening in the body can help you to understand more about your stress response, support your nervous system to be regulated and flexible, and help the mind and body begin to work together again.
During sessions we will develop practical resources, tools and techniques that are relevant to you that you feel able to use at home to support you, increasing self knowledge, self esteem and confidence.
Yoga therapy, breathwork, relaxation techniques, grounding, mindfulness can all be used within somatic therapy.
Reflexology
Sessions ease you out of a stress response and into a state of deep relaxation, without you having to do anything!
Sessions reduce tension, aid sleep, improve mood, promote a sense of physical and emotional wellbeing and provide time in a safe space, to be listened to or switch off and rest.
It’s less inhibiting than some other touch therapies as you only need to take off your socks and shoes! You may also wish to wrap up in a cosy blanket and listen to a choice of your own music.
I have specialist training in Reflexology for Pain and Mobility, Stress and Anxiety, Cancer support, RLD and Women's Health.
Facial Reflexology
All of the same benefits as foot reflexology with the added benefit of reducing tension in the face, head and neck much more quickly. We hold so much in or faces when we are stressed or in pain. Easing the tension and reducing stress levels can provide a deeply relaxing treatment, while supporting the relief of stress related symptoms. Sessions can be carried out with or without oil. Great if you don’t like having your feet touched!
Yoga Therapy and Mindfulness for Chronic Pain
Chronic pain can impact on people’s lives in physical, psychological and social ways. Relationships, families, work and social life can all be affected, so support for those living with chronic pain needs to address all of these areas.
The aim of these sessions is to help people to gradually develop change in all 3 of these areas and to support families to understand the complexity of chronic pain.
Programmes are totally tailored to your specific needs and personal situation.
Yoga for Stress, Burnout and Fatigue
1:1 time to focus on your individual needs and abilities, and to really listen to yourself and what you need, which may just be lying down and having deep rest and relaxation - sometimes the hardest thing to do!
Sessions are accessible to all and, through a combination of breathwork, relaxation, meditation, mindfulness and movement practices, will provide you with tools to regulate over-activated and fatigued body systems.
Breathwork
Our breath and our emotions are closely connected. When we’re anxious or overwhelmed our breathing can become fast and shallow; when we feel relaxed at at ease it may be deeper and slower. By noticing and changing the way that we breathe we can often change the way we feel quite quickly. Understanding that we have some control over our breath, and recognising what is happening within the body and brain, can feel very empowering.
Changing breathing patterns isn’t always as easy as it sounds and can take a little time and practice. Patience and body awareness is a really important part of building a beneficial practice.
