Discover the Healing Power of Movement
Transform Your Mind and Body Through Walk and Talk Therapy
Discover how movement transforms mental health, calms anxiety, and unlocks healing one step at a time.
The Science of Safety Through Movement
The Nervous System Reboot: How Walking Activates Safety
Before 2020, my therapy room was a warm log cabin tucked away from the world. Clients would sit opposite me, often wrestling with intense emotions, struggling to meet my eyes, struggling to let go.
And then COVID hit. The walls disappeared. Therapy moved outside.
I started walking with my clients.
And something extraordinary happened.
Before Walk and Talk Therapy, I watched many clients feel trapped in their bodies. Especially clients with anxiety, trauma, or ADHD, the sitting, the staring, the stillness, often made processing harder, not easier.
The body was flooded with cortisol, adrenaline, and noradrenaline stress hormones.
But there was no outlet.
They felt stuck.
Frozen.
Overthinking.
Emotionally flooded.
Walk and Talk Therapy for ADHD Brains
The moment we stepped outside and began to walk, I noticed it, a complete shift.
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Conversation flowed easily, side-by-side.
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Heavy emotions lifted like mist from their shoulders.
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Instead of being trapped, my clients moved those emotions through their bodies.
Walking permitted them to process in motion mentally, physically, neurologically, and emotionally.
I call it:
“Stomping it back into the Universe.”
And the science backs it up.
Rediscovering Movement in Modern Life
In EMDR therapy (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing), we use bilateral stimulation, left-right-left-right, to help the brain reprocess traumatic memories.
Guess what walking does?
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Each step you take naturally activates the left and right hemispheres of your brain.
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This side-to-side movement reduces emotional intensity, much like EMDR.
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Studies show it can calm the amygdala (the fear centre) and activate the prefrontal cortex (the logical, calming part of your brain).
In simple terms ➔ walking is a natural form of bilateral emotional healing.
When you’re anxious or stressed, your body gets flooded with:
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Cortisol (stress hormone)
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Adrenaline (fight or flight chemical)
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Noradrenaline (hypervigilance chemical)
If you just sit there?
These chemicals stay trapped in the body, making you feel jittery, overwhelmed, frozen, or flooded.
But when you move, even just a gentle walk, the body burns off these stress chemicals.
And, even better:
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Endorphins (feel-good chemicals) get released.
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Dopamine (a motivational chemical) increases.
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Serotonin (happiness stabiliser) gets boosted.
Walking literally shifts the chemical soup inside your body from survival mode ➔ to thriving mode.
Walk and Talk Therapy for ADHD Brains
The moment we stepped outside and began to walk, I noticed it, a complete shift.
-
Conversation flowed easily, side-by-side.
-
Heavy emotions lifted like mist from their shoulders.
-
Instead of being trapped, my clients moved those emotions through their bodies.
Walking permitted them to process in motion mentally, physically, neurologically, and emotionally.
I call it:
“Stomping it back into the Universe.”
And the science backs it up.
The Science of Safety Through Movement
The Nervous System Reboot: How Walking Activates Safety
Before 2020, my therapy room was a warm log cabin tucked away from the world. Clients would sit opposite me, often wrestling with intense emotions, struggling to meet my eyes, struggling to let go.
And then COVID hit. The walls disappeared. Therapy moved outside.
I started walking with my clients.
And something extraordinary happened.
Before Walk and Talk Therapy, I watched many clients feel trapped in their bodies. Especially clients with anxiety, trauma, or ADHD, the sitting, the staring, the stillness, often made processing harder, not easier.
The body was flooded with cortisol, adrenaline, and noradrenaline stress hormones.
But there was no outlet.
They felt stuck.
Frozen.
Overthinking.
Emotionally flooded.
Embracing Movement for Emotional Healing
Why More Humans Need to Walk to Heal
Our world has become so sedentary.
Phones. Computers. Endless sitting.
And yet, our bodies are designed to move.
Our nervous systems are wired for rhythm, movement, and breath.
Walk and Talk Therapy taps back into that ancient, biological truth.
Healing doesn’t have to happen locked in a room, staring into someone’s eyes.
Healing can happen outside, one step at a time, by letting the earth take what we no longer need.
Every step is a stomp of freedom.
Meet Becky Stone: Your Compassionate Therapist
I’m Becky Stone, a qualified therapist based in Canterbury, UK. I specialise in eating disorder recovery, trauma-informed therapy, ADHD support, and Walk-and-Talk Therapy. My work is shaped by both professional training and lived experience, which helps me connect with clients in a real, grounded way.
I believe healing happens when we feel safe, are not judged, and remember that our bodies are also part of our recovery journey.
Begin Your Healing Journey with Walk and Talk Therapy
Not to escape your emotions, but to walk with them.
To let them move through you.
To trust that your body, your brain, and your soul already know how to heal
If you let them move.
