Counsellor Empowering Individuals to Overcome Challenges
Counselling sessions for Adults and Young People Aged 5+
Welcome to Creative Healing
About Me
My name is Michelle Duffy, I am an integrative counsellor and qualified social worker with over 10 years of specialist experience in working with young people who have experienced sexual trauma. I have experience working as a counsellor in schools and the community supporting Individuals from ages 5 and over with a wide range of issues.
As a survivor of trauma, I know first-hand the pain and challenges that can arise from life's darkest moments. However, I also know the power of healing, resilience, and finding light amid the darkness. That's why I am committed to supporting young people and adults to navigate their own journeys through therapy.
I offer a safe, empathetic space in which individuals of all ages feel heard, respected and supported.
My credentials:
- MSc in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy,
- BSc in Social Work
- CPCAB level 4 Diploma Integrative Counselling
- Certificate in Sandplay Therapy.
- EMDR Part 1, and Part 2
- Certified Child and Adolescent Trauma Professional.
- Cert: Advanced Trauma Treatment for Children and Adolescents
- Cert: Advanced Treatment of Dissociation in Children and Adolescents
- MBACP & MBASW Registered.
My Mission
At Creative Healing, I aim to provide a safe and inclusive space where individuals of all ages can explore their emotions, develop coping skills, and foster personal growth through the transformative power of creative expression. I believe each person's journey is unique. I offer an integrative approach that combines traditional talk therapy, creative therapy, sand play, and EMDR, tailored to each individual's needs and preferences. My goal is to support each person in finding the therapeutic approach that best suits them.
- Providing a Safe Space: I offer a judgment-free zone where individuals can express themselves openly, honestly, and confidentially.
- Respecting Individuality: I recognise and value each person's unique experiences, perspectives, and identities.
- Empowering through Collaboration: I work collaboratively with individuals to set goals, identify strengths, and develop strategies for growth.
- Promoting Well-being: I focus on nurturing emotional well-being and providing tools to manage stress, anxiety, and other life challenges.
- Supporting Families and Communities: when working with young people I believe in involving families and communities as vital partners in a child's journey toward healing and growth.
- Guiding Lifelong Skills: I empower individuals with coping skills to manage life's challenges.
Together, we can navigate challenges, celebrate successes, and pave the way for a brighter future.
How Can Counselling Help?
Are you or someone you know experiencing any of the following?
- Stress or anxiety
- Low Mood
- Panic attacks
- Being bullied
- Coping with the death of a loved one or pet
- Family problems, relationship, or friendship issues
- Low self-esteem or self-confidence
- Self-harm
- Problems with food or eating
- Feelings of being different
- Isolation
- Work or exam stress
- Coping with a traumatic experience
- Parenting challenges
- Managing chronic illness or pain
- Life transitions (e.g., divorce, job loss, retirement)
I provide a safe and supportive therapeutic space where individuals of all ages can connect with and express their emotions. This space allows you to talk openly about your feelings and helps you make sense of them without fear of judgment. Together, we will develop coping strategies tailored to your needs so that you can navigate your challenges and enjoy life more fully. Depending on your age and preferences, I offer a range of therapeutic approaches, including traditional talk therapy and creative mediums like play, art, and sand therapy to help you express and process your feelings.
About Some of the Different Approaches
Sandplay Therapy
Creative and Expressive Art
Creative and Expressive Art
This is a powerful non-verbal therapeutic approach that uses a sand tray, toys, figures, and water to create miniature worlds. The sand tray provides a protected and contained space where individuals of all ages can express their feelings and challenges without needing to talk or explain their experiences.
Often, the scenes created reflect
This is a powerful non-verbal therapeutic approach that uses a sand tray, toys, figures, and water to create miniature worlds. The sand tray provides a protected and contained space where individuals of all ages can express their feelings and challenges without needing to talk or explain their experiences.
Often, the scenes created reflect the person's life, offering them the opportunity to resolve conflicts, overcome obstacles, and gain self-acceptance. This approach is suitable for both children and adults, providing a unique and meaningful way to process emotions and experiences.
Creative and Expressive Art
Creative and Expressive Art
Creative and Expressive Art
This approach blends drawing, painting, collages, music, movement and play. These methods allow for the non-verbal expression of an individual's thoughts, feelings and internal experiences to be visually externalised through images and metaphors. This can allow people of all ages opportunities to process their difficulties gently and safely.
EMDR Therapy
Creative and Expressive Art
EMDR Therapy
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapy treatment that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are a result of disturbing life experiences. After these disturbing experiences the images, thoughts and emotions can remain and can become triggered, causing overwhelm and the feeling
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapy treatment that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are a result of disturbing life experiences. After these disturbing experiences the images, thoughts and emotions can remain and can become triggered, causing overwhelm and the feeling of being back in that moment or frozen in time.
EMDR can help to process these memories through bilateral stimulation using eye movements, vibrations or sound, to help the brain join the dots and recognise an event in the past, therefore allowing natural healing to take place.
Free Anxiety, PTSD/Trauma coping cards
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