Sussex Therapy

Therapies for the Self

Bach Flower Remedies
Counselling
Healing
Hypnotherapy
Meditation
Spiritual Counselling
Spiritual Tarot

Bach Flower Remedies
Dr Edward Bach was a Harley Street physician who came to believe that: "there was a better way" of treating people; so he gave up his lucrative practice and retired to the wilds of North Norfolk. There, he walked and meditated, and discovered that certain flowers seemed to have the power to heal both the spirit and, in some cases, the body too.
Over some years, he found and formulated uses for 38 plants or substances. These, and especially the composite 'Rescue Remedy', comprise what we know as The Bach Flower Remedies.
Practitioners will take a history and then either prescribe or douse for appropriate remedies to add into a dropper bottle to be taken orally during the day for a two or three weeks. A second course may then be of further benefit.
This treatment is both safe and powerful, subtle and profound. It works very well as a therapy in its own right, or as an excellent support for other therapies.

Counselling
Counselling allows you, the patient, the time to express and explore any thoughts or feelings which are troubling you in any way. This can be a helpful way in which to address either present or past issues, either alone or with a partner.
My own approach within this discipline follows the late Carl Rogers, among others, together with some of the problem-solving techniques drawn from Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

Healing
Healing is something that is inherent to all human beings. As with singing, some have great natural talent while others have far less; but in both cases, everybody can learn.
As Quantum Physics is now making clear, our bodies rely for their proper functioning on flows of light energy around and within the body. Mystics and Healers have used an understanding of this fact for many thousands of years, and we have several systems of Energy Healing that have come down to us from those who have gone before.
As a healer, I am practiced in attuning myself to the different parts of your body, and to different levels of your being. Then I engage with the blockage, the 'problem', whatever it is, and by the use of my own energies and by drawing in Light energy, to help your energy system to function more smoothly and fluently - rather like an etherial traffic policeman!
Healing is appropriate for all conditions and ailments, a fact supported by over a hundred scientific studies. It is particularly helpful in resolving physical problems that have resulted from emotional or psychological issues, and also in those cases where more vigorous treatments are not appropriate.

Hypnotherapy
The thing about Hypnotherapy is that it is so totally positive - I just love doing Hypnosis with clients because it is such a powerful and creative tool. Hypnotherapy with Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is the art of understanding how our minds work, and then using that knowledge to help you make the changes that you want to make in your life or in yourself, like stopping smoking, or feeling more confident.
Hypnosis is simply a method (or group of methods) for putting you into a 'trance state'. Trance is an entirely natural phenomenon, as when on a train, staring at nothing, you are aware of others talking, but not of what they are talking about, but the skilled Hypnotherapist will take you into that state 'to order'.
Once in a trance state, it is much easier to reach your Unconscious self, and interact therapeutically with that deeper part of you.
Your unconscious self is the place to 'access' all your habitual and automatic behaviours, such as the 'need' to smoke cigarrettes, for example.
If your brain is the 'hardware', then the mind is your software; and using Hypnosis enables us, working together, to 'edit' that software to make the changes that you want to make in your life.

Spiritual Counselling
The essence, the heart of Spiritual Counselling is Love.
As a Spiritual Counsellor I aim to BE a manifestation of Divine Love for my client; and to allow my spirit to be directed by that higher love - in whatever fashion - to help that person in themselves becoming more open to receive what it is that they most need at this point in their lives, their journey.
Whether that entails praying together, meditating, sitting in silence, invoking angels, doing Tarot or just letting them let off steam, it is the quality of presence that as a Minister I hope to bring that will be the springboard for their re-connection, inspiration or insight.

Meditation
I also offer a regular meditation class, suitable for all levels. Meditation is the art of taking loving and mindful responsability for all of the processes of our consciousness. Fed up with mental 'chatter'? can't focus or concentrate? Insomnia? Feeling out of internal balance? Meditation could be exactly the remedy.

Spiritual Tarot
The wisdom encoded in card format that we know as Tarot was first created as we know it in the 12th century in southern Italy, not long after the arrival of card-craft in the Mediterranean from the far East.
Each card in the Tarot deck corresponds with one of the Holy Spheres on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, or the Shining Paths between those Spheres, or the workings of the Elemental forces on the Tree.
As such, each card has very specific archetypal meaning and significance - unlike the fairytale stock in trade of a fairground psychic.
Tarot makes an excellent vehicle for exploring your potential for personal growth, and finding the signposts to help you on your journey.