https://www.sarahbrookecounselling.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-11-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad166bbf2e6b19d50763846/2e431c5e-47db-4ebc-9a9b-dfaf9e4b5da0/Cornflower.jpg Contact - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad166bbf2e6b19d50763846/1706263547893-OCTCZAJY9ERAITVIXMIG/IMG_6003.jpg Contact https://www.sarahbrookecounselling.com/home daily 1.0 2025-11-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad166bbf2e6b19d50763846/bbaf274a-6d2a-4ce6-b6a9-84967305bdf9/Room+medium.jpg Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad166bbf2e6b19d50763846/8093f8bf-b4de-4687-95bb-c6b528fd43c3/me.jpg Home - Contact now… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad166bbf2e6b19d50763846/370c1f49-b093-497b-aa8c-cd7e63a05765/spiral.jpg Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad166bbf2e6b19d50763846/bbaf274a-6d2a-4ce6-b6a9-84967305bdf9/Room+medium.jpg Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad166bbf2e6b19d50763846/8093f8bf-b4de-4687-95bb-c6b528fd43c3/me.jpg Home - Contact now… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad166bbf2e6b19d50763846/1706262551239-QELFLTDAIAQFGMUEEHFS/IMG_6002.jpg Home https://www.sarahbrookecounselling.com/sensorimotor-art-therapy daily 0.75 2025-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad166bbf2e6b19d50763846/1674711068929-2ALXG1HVOBXXT4K81832/nest+crop.jpg Sensorimotor Art Therapy - Guided Drawing® This is a mindfulness-based practice guided by your own healing impulse (whether you believe you have one or not). We trust the hands and the body’s wisdom to discover what is needed. Through movement and expression on the page things begin to shift; energy is released, insight is gained, stuckness is brought back into life. Compassion can then filter back in. Guided Drawing is one of the many gifts from my training with Cornelia Elbrect. Video here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad166bbf2e6b19d50763846/1be199d5-1a75-4d1b-a9ac-1d54a57959cc/polargrey2.jpg Sensorimotor Art Therapy - IFS with Drawing This is a combination of art therapy and Internal Family Systems developed by Ruth Culver. IFS understands that people have many parts and also an essential, or observing, Self. Self holds qualities such as compassion, curiosity and calm. By mapping parts on the page we better understand the complexity of our inner world, and are supported to shift into an observing Self-state. By meeting the parts with Self energy, understanding their positive intentions and releasing emotional ‘burdens’, greater compassion and freedom is found. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad166bbf2e6b19d50763846/75a3102d-b373-4999-ba0e-0ea969b2562e/small+integration+clay.jpg Sensorimotor Art Therapy - Clay Clay can be moulded into any shape to express an internal experience, and then be re-moulded endlessly as we explore what is possible and what is shifting within us. As we re-shape/smooth/squish/build-up the clay, new possibilities are revealed. Working with clay in this way is like entering into a reciprocal relationship, a conversation or dance, with a receptive and generous partner. Being earth itself, clay also supports a sense of grounding and connection with the natural world. 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This humble lay-out, offers a powerful opportunity to explore your non-verbal and pre-verbal world. Working in the Clay Field shows us how we habitually orientate to ourselves and the world… and more importantly gives a body-based opportunity to explore what else might be possible. The Clay Field is particularly helpful with early childhood trauma and difficulties with emotion regulation such as ADHD. This is a deeply embodied therapeutic experience. Video here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad166bbf2e6b19d50763846/132e765a-dc30-403a-b2fe-6bb65a66ce3a/red+figurines.jpg Sensorimotor Art Therapy - IFS with Figurines Figurines can be chosen to represent different parts of your inner world, helping us to see their relationship with each other, and gain some perspective (‘un-blend’) in order to see how these parts are attempting to help us, and what they might need. New solutions often become evident simply through relating in this different way. I find that viewing the parts externally supports many people to ‘un-blend’ more easily than classic IFS. This is also a good approach for people for whom eyes-closed mindfulness does not feel safe, or where sustained internal focus is challenging. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad166bbf2e6b19d50763846/1674711068929-2ALXG1HVOBXXT4K81832/nest+crop.jpg Sensorimotor Art Therapy - Guided Drawing® This is a mindfulness-based practice guided by your own healing impulse (whether you believe you have one or not). We trust the hands and the body’s wisdom to discover what is needed. Through movement and expression on the page things begin to shift; energy is released, insight is gained, stuckness is brought back into life. Compassion can then filter back in. Guided Drawing is one of the many gifts from my training with Cornelia Elbrect. Video here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad166bbf2e6b19d50763846/1be199d5-1a75-4d1b-a9ac-1d54a57959cc/polargrey2.jpg Sensorimotor Art Therapy - IFS with Drawing This is a combination of art therapy and Internal Family Systems developed by Ruth Culver. IFS understands that people have many parts and also an essential, or observing, Self. Self holds qualities such as compassion, curiosity and calm. By mapping parts on the page we better understand the complexity of our inner world, and are supported to shift into an observing Self-state. By meeting the parts with Self energy, understanding their positive intentions and releasing emotional ‘burdens’, greater compassion and freedom is found. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad166bbf2e6b19d50763846/132e765a-dc30-403a-b2fe-6bb65a66ce3a/red+figurines.jpg Sensorimotor Art Therapy - IFS with Figurines Figurines can be chosen to represent different parts of your inner world, helping us to see their relationship with each other, and gain some perspective (‘un-blend’) in order to see how these parts are attempting to help us, and what they might need. New solutions often become evident simply through relating in this different way. I find that viewing the parts externally supports many people to ‘un-blend’ more easily than classic IFS. This is also a good approach for people for whom eyes-closed mindfulness does not feel safe, or where sustained internal focus is challenging. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad166bbf2e6b19d50763846/181513bc-51f1-42c7-8c68-9887fe8b099b/Clayfield+%283%29+rotated.JPG Sensorimotor Art Therapy - Clay Field® The Clay Field® is a very specific way of working with clay, within a wooden box (the field). This humble lay-out, offers a powerful opportunity to explore your non-verbal and pre-verbal world. Working in the Clay Field shows us how we habitually orientate to ourselves and the world… and more importantly gives a body-based opportunity to explore what else might be possible. The Clay Field is particularly helpful with early childhood trauma and difficulties with emotion regulation such as ADHD. This is a deeply embodied therapeutic experience. 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It could be a crystal in your pocket, the memory of a loving grandma, breathing-in golden light, noticing the symmetry of a plant or reminding yourself “I am safe”. We create a physical object which helps us tap into this more expansive state. This object can be taken home, or used to support regulation in future sessions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad166bbf2e6b19d50763846/1706263641628-CUCZZ3LKO41W7P114GYU/IMG_6003.jpg Sensorimotor Art Therapy https://www.sarahbrookecounselling.com/supervision daily 0.75 2025-10-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad166bbf2e6b19d50763846/85c9a964-1c02-441b-94f9-2cfcdde2fd1c/bark+collage.jpg Supervision - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad166bbf2e6b19d50763846/85c9a964-1c02-441b-94f9-2cfcdde2fd1c/bark+collage.jpg Supervision - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad166bbf2e6b19d50763846/1706263679750-3BL30WYNY9LF5LU4CILD/IMG_6003.jpg Supervision https://www.sarahbrookecounselling.com/somatic-psychotherapy daily 0.75 2025-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad166bbf2e6b19d50763846/2de05cb9-94bb-4782-b91a-6452c3481c96/bee.jpg Somatic Psychotherapy - Mindfulness-Based Somatic Psychotherapy (Hakomi) Somatic psychotherapy is the ever-growing field of psychotherapy that deeply values the body as both the holder of past patterns, and also the source of the wisdom for growth and healing. Hakomi is a specific somatic psychotherapy approach with philosophical roots in Taoism and Buddhism. It draws on, and has influenced, other modalities including Gestalt Therapy, Bioenergetics, Internal Family Systems, Psychomotor Therapy and Feldenkrais Method. You can read more about the method here and here. Where there is an interest, I weave the Hakomi approach with expressive arts and movement practices. I find this supports the flow of creative wisdom. The natural environment, of which we are part, is present in sessions at all times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad166bbf2e6b19d50763846/64eefe0a-0bf4-48e9-9052-188ea6a309cf/ladybug.jpg Somatic Psychotherapy - What you can expect in a session Cultivating a state of mindfulness and self-compassion forms the foundation of our sessions. This allows us to observe how we are organised kindly, and without falling into reactive patterns. We study thoughts, emotions and sensations in the body; areas of stuckness or strong emotion; get to know ‘parts’ and how these relate to current and past experiences. We can engage in inner-child activities to offer ‘unburdening’, missing experiences and healing of old wounds. We might also take time just hanging in moments of wholeness (Self energy), embodying and integrating the possibility of being expansive. Our goal is to move towards a greater wholeness - with all parts of our system relating freely, and an awareness of our relatedness with the whole world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad166bbf2e6b19d50763846/05e34526-17f3-49f8-b17c-e7ae3ad68214/mushroom.jpg Somatic Psychotherapy - Somatic psychotherapy training My training in Hakomi includes completion of the three-year Professional Training program at the Australian Hakomi Institute; One-year Hakomi Embodied Awareness Relationship Training H.E.A.R.T; Level one of Trauma to Dharma with Manuela Mischke-Reeds; and Character Training with Jules Morgaine; Core training with The Right Use of Power Institute which articulates the ethical grounding of the Hakomi method; Plus attendance and assisting at multiple Hakomi workshops over the last 6 years. Further details of my training background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad166bbf2e6b19d50763846/c3bffe59-98a9-4d3f-9f48-06cdcfbd7052/IMG_0006.jpeg Somatic Psychotherapy - Let love go Forget about “transcending” the body. Love it instead. Let go of the idea of “letting go”. Instead, let love go deep into the tender places, the parts that ache. Inhale into your sadness. Let your fear move deep within you. Bow to your uncertainty. There is an untouchable place in you that fearlessly allows itself to be touched. Here, even your unworthiness has worth. And that old feeling that you are unlovable? It is loveable here. Presence is the container, never the contained. There is so much room in you, friend. So much room. The Unknown embraces all that is known. In the certainty of yourself, even uncertainty can be held like a newborn. There is nothing wrong with you, including the idea that there is something wrong with you. 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Further details of my training background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad166bbf2e6b19d50763846/c3bffe59-98a9-4d3f-9f48-06cdcfbd7052/IMG_0006.jpeg Somatic Psychotherapy - Let love go Forget about “transcending” the body. Love it instead. Let go of the idea of “letting go”. Instead, let love go deep into the tender places, the parts that ache. Inhale into your sadness. Let your fear move deep within you. Bow to your uncertainty. There is an untouchable place in you that fearlessly allows itself to be touched. Here, even your unworthiness has worth. And that old feeling that you are unlovable? It is loveable here. Presence is the container, never the contained. There is so much room in you, friend. So much room. The Unknown embraces all that is known. In the certainty of yourself, even uncertainty can be held like a newborn. There is nothing wrong with you, including the idea that there is something wrong with you. So stop trying to love yourself; simply be the Self that loves. -Jeff Foster (Poems to save your life: You were never broken, 2020) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad166bbf2e6b19d50763846/2de05cb9-94bb-4782-b91a-6452c3481c96/bee.jpg Somatic Psychotherapy - Mindfulness-Based Somatic Psychotherapy (Hakomi) Somatic psychotherapy is the ever-growing field of psychotherapy that deeply values the body as both the holder of past patterns, and also the source of the wisdom for growth and healing. Hakomi is a specific somatic psychotherapy approach with philosophical roots in Taoism and Buddhism. It draws on, and has influenced, other modalities including Gestalt Therapy, Bioenergetics, Internal Family Systems, Psychomotor Therapy and Feldenkrais Method. You can read more about the method here and here. Where there is an interest, I weave the Hakomi approach with expressive arts and movement practices. I find this supports the flow of creative wisdom. The natural environment, of which we are part, is present in sessions at all times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad166bbf2e6b19d50763846/64eefe0a-0bf4-48e9-9052-188ea6a309cf/ladybug.jpg Somatic Psychotherapy - What you can expect in a session Cultivating a state of mindfulness and self-compassion forms the foundation of our sessions. This allows us to observe how we are organised kindly, and without falling into reactive patterns. We study thoughts, emotions and sensations in the body; areas of stuckness or strong emotion; get to know ‘parts’ and how these relate to current and past experiences. We can engage in inner-child activities to offer ‘unburdening’, missing experiences and healing of old wounds. We might also take time just hanging in moments of wholeness (Self energy), embodying and integrating the possibility of being expansive. 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