Connecting Counsellors: Guest Blogs, Collaboration & Trauma-Informed Voices
Welcome to a space built on connection, collaboration, and compassion. This page brings together a diverse group of counsellors, coaches, and mental health professionals to share their insights, lived experiences, and therapeutic wisdom through guest blogs. Whether you’re here to read, learn, or explore new voices, these contributions reflect the values of trauma-informed care, community support, and holistic recovery.
Together, we amplify meaningful messages, one story, one insight, one connection at a time.
Therapist Guest Blogs: Insights on Recovery, Mental Health & Compassionate Practice
IF YOUR MIND WERE A GARDEN: 5 WAYS TO CULTIVATE MENTAL WELLBEING
A Surrey Psychotherapist’s Guide to Nurturing Your Mental Health Through Garden WisdomRecently, I posted on my social media about the feelings of overwhelm that I had looking at a patch of garden that I would love to transform into a vegetable patch. I found myself...
People-Pleasing, Perfectionism, and the Inner Critic: How They Feed Binge Eating
By Julie McClorey - Therapist | Self-Worth, People-Pleasing, Inner Critic & Binge Eating Disorder Specialist | Helping You Heal the Parts That Say You’re Not EnoughBinge eating can feel like it comes out of nowhere. One moment you’re doing fine, and the next...
When One Hurts, We All Feel It: Understanding Family Dynamics Through Therapy and Mediation
Explore how therapy and mediation can transform family relationships, fostering understanding and healing for everyone involved.By Joanne Watson, Relationship Psychotherapist & Family Mediator. Families are complex systems where each member's struggles can ripple...
Why Do I Feel Emotionally Numb Even When My Life Looks Fine?
Success achieved, but joy missing? You're not alone. Discover why emotional numbness happens even when life looks perfect, plus practical steps to reconnect with your feelings. Written with thought and care by your autistic therapist.From the outside, you have it...
Why Magnesium Is So Powerful – And Why Midlife Women Often Need More of It
Why Magnesium Is So Powerful – And Why You Might Need More of It Hi lovely ladies, Let’s talk about a quiet hero in your health story: magnesium. It's one of those essential minerals that does so much behind the scenes, yet many of us aren’t getting enough of it,...
Why Are So Many Teenagers Hiding in Toilets at School?
Teenager refusing school? You’re not alone. More and more parents are watching their children freeze at the school gates, cry in the car, or retreat to the toilets rather than attend lessons. It’s easy to feel helpless, but beneath the shutdown is often something...
About Hannah — Belle Vie Admin
Hannah is the founder of Belle Vie Admin, providing confidential admin support for therapists and professionals who need calm, consistent help behind the scenes. With a background in supporting vulnerable people and streamlining complex systems, Hannah brings a rare blend of compassion and organisation to her virtual assistant work.
Her services are GDPR-compliant, discreet, and always tailored to fit around the individual needs of private practice professionals, from inbox and intake management to file organisation and diary support.
About Michelle – Supportive Counselling in Ashford
Michelle Jean is a warm, down-to-earth therapist offering supportive counselling in Ashford and online. With a background in the corporate world and her own lived experience of therapy, Michelle brings empathy, real-life understanding, and a collaborative approach to her work. She helps adults navigate anxiety, low self-esteem, grief, trauma, and life’s many transitions through flexible, person-centred sessions.
Her goal? To make therapy feel human, accessible, and safe, especially for those who are nervous about reaching out. Michelle believes counselling isn’t just for crisis; it’s a space to feel understood, build confidence, and reconnect with who you are.
About Kerry Somatic Trauma Therapy in Wiltshire (BACP Registered)
Kerry Hampton is a qualified integrative therapist based in Wiltshire, UK. She is registered with the BACP and specialises in somatic trauma therapy, using a body-based, nervous system-informed approach to support deep healing. Kerry’s personal experience with trauma and talk therapy shaped her decision to pursue somatic healing after recognising that long-term emotional pain was still showing up physically.
She now works integratively, blending polyvagal theory, bottom-up trauma approaches, psychodynamic insights, and gentle somatic tools, like breathwork, grounding, movement, and nervous system regulation, within a three-phase trauma model. Her work is centred on helping adults release stored stress, reconnect with their bodies, and build resilience in a safe, collaborative space.
ABOUT KAREN – CBT THERAPY FOR SELF-WORTH AND CONFIDENCE (BABCP REGISTERED)
Karen Gerrans is a qualified Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist based in the UK. She is registered with the BABCP and specialises in CBT for low self-worth, perfectionism, and confidence-building. Karen brings nearly two decades of experience supporting children, teens, and adults across therapeutic and educational settings. Her own lived experience of people-pleasing, high-functioning anxiety, and self-doubt shapes her warm, client-led approach.
Karen now delivers CBT both online and in person, helping clients unlearn unhelpful thought patterns, calm their inner critic, and build emotional resilience. She works integratively, combining practical strategies with deep self-reflection. Her sessions often explore themes like guilt around rest, the pressure to perform, imposter syndrome, and boundary-setting. Karen’s work is rooted in the belief that self-worth isn’t earned, it’s something we all deserve to reclaim.
ABOUT JULIE – MIDLIFE CONFIDENCE & WELLNESS COACHING (HEALTH & LIFESTYLE)
Julie is a certified Health & Wellness Coach based in Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria, with a powerful story of healing and reinvention. A proud mum of five and grandmother of four, she supports midlife women in rediscovering their spark through confidence coaching, nutrition, lifestyle medicine, and mindset work.
After navigating her own grief and health struggles, including the heartbreaking loss of her son, Julie found purpose in helping others feel vibrant and alive again. She blends natural approaches with real-life experience to support energy, self-esteem, and well-being through midlife and beyond.
Julie’s work focuses on gut health, hormone balance, aloe vera nutrition, and low-carb living, alongside emotional resilience. Whether through coaching, writing, or sharing practical wellness tips, she empowers women to rise, rebuild, and create a life that feels good from the inside out.
Guest Blog by Lii – Autistic Therapist Specialising in Emotional Numbness
Lii is a BACP-registered autistic counsellor who offers specialist therapy for adults experiencing emotional numbness, disconnection, anxiety, or burnout. Drawing from both professional training and lived experience, Lii supports neurodivergent clients in rebuilding their emotional awareness and reclaiming connection, even when life looks “fine” on the outside.
In this powerful guest blog, Lii explores the hidden reasons behind emotional shutdown, including trauma, depression, and the impact of psychiatric medication. Her compassionate, insight-rich writing helps readers feel seen and offers hope that emotional numbness is not permanent.
Guest Therapist: Joanne Specialises in Trauma, Anxiety & Relationship Support
Joanne is a BACP-accredited relationship psychotherapist and qualified family mediator, offering support to individuals, couples, and families navigating emotional strain, conflict, or disconnection. With deep roots in both professional training and lived experience, Joanne brings warmth, clarity, and compassion to her work, especially when mental health challenges are impacting family dynamics.
In this guest blog, Joanne explores how therapy and mediation can help families move from survival mode to reconnection. Drawing on systemic theory and practical experience, her writing offers gentle guidance for those who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure about how to move forward
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Guest Blogs from Trusted Therapists, Coaches & Mental Health Professionals
Why Collaborations & Connections Matter
Connection is at the heart of everything I do. These guest blogs are more than content , they represent trusted professionals across counselling, coaching, nutrition, body image work, trauma recovery, and eating disorder therapy.
Every contributor here brings something unique, and their work reflects the kind of trauma-informed, inclusive, and person-centred care I believe in. Whether you’re a fellow mental health practitioner, a therapist with lived experience, or someone who wants to amplify authentic voices, collaborations like this one between therapists help us learn from each other and create meaningful change.
This page is part of my ongoing commitment to building a safe, multidisciplinary support network, and creating backlinks that strengthen the visibility of counsellors, coaches, and recovery advocates doing brilliant work.
If you’d like to feature here, contribute a guest blog, or do a blog swap to support your SEO and share your message ➝ drop me a message. I’d love to connect.