Hi I'm Natalie,
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I can help you understand why you are feeling the way you do. Whether you are 10 or 110, we all need to talk. We all carry our past inside. Maybe you are someone that learnt to suppress your feelings, brush yourself down and carry on. Or maybe you're that 10 year old, that just doesn't know how to voice how you feel, so what do you do? You act out how you feel, and that's what get's you into trouble, and I'm not just talking about children here. If we don't let our trapped emotions out, they will come out by other means; illness, anxiety, anger, depression, self-harm, over eating, the list goes on!
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I understand, I've been there too! 🩷
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Hello
I am a counsellor and hypnotherapist, not of my own choosing. I see my job now as my son's legacy to me. In 2002 my baby boy died at 3 days old. This was when the world stopped for me. I knew from that moment that I needed to help other people who had suffered child loss and trauma.
My Story
As well as being a counsellor, I was a primary school teacher for 25 years, and finally ended my teaching career in December 2023.
While teaching I came across many different abilities and needs, in-fact I was a Special Needs Co-ordinator in a couple of schools.
I've always loved helping children learn, and finding ways for them to learn if the 'conventional classroom' way doesn't work for them. We're all different and I realised I started to become a little angry at the school system when they would talk about inclusion and differentiation, but still expected children to follow the school routine, or sit at a table for 4 hours a day trying to do work that their brain just couldn't comprehend.
I now hear stories from clients who had problems at school because their teachers didn't understand them, or there was only one way to work a maths sum out, but they couldn't understand that way. Client's talk about feeling odd, uncomfortable, not having many friends at school, or not knowing how to join in when a teacher said go and play.
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​​My passion is helping people through difficult times and to understand themselves better.
Training to be a counsellor started for me when my son died in 2002. I wanted to help people who had gone through similar to me. What I didn't add to the mix, was that I needed counselling before I could help anyone else. Counselling changed me and made me even more determined to be a counsellor. At the same time I trained as a hypnotherapist, which is a fantastic tool in helping people get to the root of a problem, or to uncover lost memories.
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As a way of giving back I am also a befriender for The Lullaby Trust, where I chat to mum's who are in the early stages of baby loss. I am the person that mum's feel comfortable crying to. I am the person who says their child's name and encourages them to remember the special moments.
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Being told that I'm the only person who understands is so precious to me, and a privilege.
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Contact
If you need counselling support please email, text or phone.
07837 452 791