The Therapy Exchange 🌿 NEW YEAR Hello everyone, I hope you're all doing okay and staying warm – it feels very wintery out there! I’ve been thinking a lot about what it really means for us to be therapists who also have to run a practice – the client work, the admin, the energy it takes, the gaps we forget to give ourselves… it all adds up. So, as we edge toward the end of the year, I’ve been looking at my own practice and noticing all the little things that need doing: planning January and...
7 days ago • 3 min read
The Therapy Exchange Newsletter 🌿 Hello everyone, I hope you’re all doing okay. We’re now well into February. The new-year energy has usually settled by this point. The decorations are long gone. The light is slowly returning, but it’s still grey enough that getting up in the morning can feel like an effort. And in the therapy room, February can feel… full. By now, many of our clients have moved past the catching us up conversations of January and are back in the thick of their patterns,...
2 months ago • 2 min read
The Therapy Exchange Newsletter 🌿 A gentle start to the year Hello everyone, I hope this finds you keeping well. I also hope you managed to have some kind of break over the Christmas period – although I know it probably already feels a long time ago now. As we move through the start of the year, I’m very aware that this can bring up all sorts of feelings. Hope, uncertainty, motivation, dread – often shaped by how our private practice is going at that particular moment. It’s so easy to...
3 months ago • 4 min read
The Therapy Exchange 🌿 Hello everyone, I hope you're all doing okay. I don't know about you but, I've just finished my last session of the year, and I am ready for a break! As the year draws to a close, many of us notice a natural slowing down, even if the diary hasn’t quite caught up yet. December often invites reflection: on the work we’ve done, the people we’ve sat alongside, and the quiet moments of growth that don’t always announce themselves. This work asks a great deal of us. Showing...
4 months ago • 1 min read
The Therapy Exchange 🌿 Hello everyone, I hope you're all doing okay and staying warm – it feels very wintery out there! I’ve been thinking a lot about what it really means for us to be therapists who also have to run a practice – the client work, the admin, the energy it takes, the gaps we forget to give ourselves… it all adds up. So, as we edge toward the end of the year, I’ve been looking at my own practice and noticing all the little things that need doing: planning January and what I want...
5 months ago • 3 min read
The Therapy Exchange 🌿 The Therapy Exchange – One month In A huge thank you, what’s new, and useful resources for your practice Hello to all you lovely Therapy Exchange Therapists, We've done our first month at The Therapy Exchange and I wanted to say a big thank you to you for coming on board and building the foundation of The Therapy Exchange with me. I decided to set The Therapy Exchange up when I thought about going back into therapy and realising the cost would suddenly be a big...
7 months ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader I've been looking at my book pile, you know, those books that you bought with every intention of reading as soon as they arrive, but then life and time takes over and one day you realise there are just soooo many of them! 🫣 But you still want to read them. So, to get myself through my own book pile, and to help you do the same, I decided to create a community of fellow book lovers and this is our very first newsletter! So welcome and thank you so much for joining me. Not just any...
almost 2 years ago • 3 min read