Personal development encompasses a wide range of options from counselling and pyschotherapy, to ecotherapy and wellbeing coaching. Further information can be found below and our practitioners offer the option of a an initial introductory discussion to determine whether their approach is right for you, your child or your relationship.
Most holistic treatments aim to treat the whole person so if you aren’t keen on talking to someone, do consider one of our physical therapies or contact us for further advice or suggestions.
Counselling
There are several options for Counselling at The Centre either privately with Ester Wheeler, Deborah Lane (clients aged 4-25) or Deborah Parker (children, adults, couples, families) via Petersfield Counselling Service. Details of all options are shown below.
Psychotherapy for Healing and Growth
If you are struggling with the effects of interpersonal trauma, feeling overwhelmed, or seeking personal growth, Ester offers a supportive space where you can heal and rediscover your inner strength. She approaches therapy through a humanistic lens, which means she believes in your capacity for growth and change, and that you are the expert on your own life.
What You Can Expect:
- A compassionate space where your voice and experiences is heard and valued.
- Collaboration to identify your needs and work toward healing at your own pace.
- Support to move through difficult emotions, improve self-esteem, and reclaim your power.
- A commitment to creating a therapy experience that is truly for you, respecting your identity, experiences, and the unique challenges you face.
A Little about Me and My Approach:
- I am a Humanistic Therapist: Together, we will explore your unique experiences, strengths, and challenges. I prioritise a warm, empathetic, and co-created relationship, empowering you to find your own path forward.
- I have a partial interest and work with Interpersonal Trauma: If you’ve experienced relational wounds, such as abuse, neglect, or betrayal, we will work through the impact of these experiences in a way that honours your feelings and pace.
- I am passionate about Anti-Oppressive Practice and Intersectional Feminist Theory: I recognize how systems of power, discrimination, and societal oppression can affect your sense of self and wellbeing. I am committed to supporting you in a way that is inclusive, respectful, and empowering, regardless of your background or identity.
Each of us are unique and no one’s experiences are ever the same. I work with everyone as an individual but areas I commonly work with our:
- Neurodivergence
- Relationship and family breakdown
- Sex and sexuality
- Gender identity
- Historic childhood/developmental abuse and neglect
- Relation, interpersonal or domestic abuse
- Sexual abuse, violence, and harassment- recent and non-recent including childhood
- Suicidal thoughts and/or ideology
- Trauma, PTSD and Complex PTSD
Deborah is a professionally registered Integrative Counsellor and Psychotherapist (MBACP), qualified at Masters level, specialising in work with children, adolescents, young people (aged 4-25), and their families.
I offer a warm, friendly and compassionate approach, working collaboratively with children and young people to build a trusting therapeutic relationship. As an integrative therapist, I draw upon a range of creative arts and play resources which can be used to facilitate communication beyond the constraints of language so that difficulties and inner conflicts can be expressed, witnessed, and understood in developmentally appropriate and paced ways. My core foundation is rooted in non-directive play-based therapy, humanistic, psychodynamic and CBT approaches, grounded in a core understanding of attachment and family systems.
I work with a broad range of presentations including anxiety, school avoidance, OCD, depression, low-mood, emotional regulation, trauma, bereavement, family separation, attachment difficulties, low self-esteem, eco- and climate anxiety, self-harm and disordered eating.
Clinical Supervision
Do you want to deepen your self-awareness, enhance your skills, and ensure ethical, client-cantered care?
I offer clinical supervision that focuses on the relational dynamics between you, your clients, and the field in-which we all meet. My approach is grounded in humanistic principles, emphasizing empathy, authenticity, and the importance of the therapeutic relationship.
What I offer:
- Relational, humanistic supervision that prioritises a collaborative and authentic supervisory relationship
- A creative space for you to reflect on your work, explore challenges, and enhance your professional growth
- Support in navigating difficult cases, ethical dilemmas, and personal responses to clients
- Focus on self-awareness and emotional processing within the supervisory space
- A commitment to your personal and professional development as a humanistic practitioner
About me: I am an experienced counsellor, trained in the humanistic and relational modalities. I draw from Person-Centred, Gestalt, and Existential frameworks to support you in a way that fosters your growth, both personally and professionally. Furthermore, I am experienced and passionate about feminist theory, trauma informed and anti-oppressive practice and integrate this into my all my work. My supervision style is warm, reflective, creative, and rooted in the belief that the supervisory relationship is key to your ongoing development as a therapist.
Supervision is available for counsellor and physiotherapist in individual or group, face to face and online.
Pricing:
- Initial consultation: FREE
- Ongoing individual supervision sessions: £80 an hour or £110 1.5 hrs for individual
- Ongoing group supervision sessions: £100 an hour
Get in Touch: To book an initial session or call, please contact me at: esterwheelercounselling@outlook.com
Ecotherapy, Wellbeing Coaching & Sound Bath
So what is Ecotherapy?
The ever-evolving question and one with a myriad of interpretations. For the context of these sessions with Emily, Ecotherapy is rooted in a way of being with the world that speaks to our interconnection with ourselves, each other and nature. Ecotherapy offers a framework that remembers that all three of those things as one living, breathing, interacting organism. A reciprocal relationship in constant conversation and exchange with each other. It’s that foundation that infuses Emily’s practise, both personally and professionally here at The Centre.
And how can Ecotherapy support you?
Have you been wrestling with a worry or been feeling stuck or struggling? Do you feel in need of some nurture or nourishment, some time and space for yourself? Have you been feeling disconnected, lost, sad, anxious, exhausted, angry, numb? By coming in to the natural world in this way, consciously making space and time to turn up with ALL that we are and ALL that we are navigating, we gift ourselves the opportunity to be heard, held, supported and witnessed. The power and transformational potency that’s held in slowing down to listen, soothe and resource our nervous systems, through whatever terrain we’re navigating internally, offers us this chance to come home to the wholeness of who we are. An integral and precious reminder of what we’re part of and an opportunity to build our sense of safety in being with all that we’re feeling.
It’s not a new practise, as humans we’ve been living in this way since our time here began on this planet, and for many cultures and people this way of being in the world is still very much alive. For us in the West, so much of life these days tends to pull us away from this sense of connection and belonging. The effects of that disconnection within ourselves, our communities and our relationship with the land and it’s inhabitants is evident, not least through our current health and ecological crises. Working together ecotherapeutically, in full community with ourselves, each other and the natural world, can offer us that often much-needed reminder of our ‘place in the family of things’*. What it is to feel that we are truly welcome, that we truly belong and are supported in ALL that we feel and experience?! In the whole cycle, with all of those feelings of shame, judgement, sensuality, grief, fear or anger that we’re so often told not to feel. What we then have to offer ourselves and the wider world from that place, from that sense of wholeness, is truly something quite exquisite.
Ecotherapeutic practises can be part of our day-to-day wellbeing; walking, swimming, gardening, running, mediating outside perhaps. It can also offer us more conscious support like these sessions with Emily; supported by another, offering us space and time to connect, listen and be with the full spectrum of how we’re feeling. And then there are times that these moments with nature can invite us in to something much more mystical and magical, experiences that often words often can’t quite capture.
You’ve probably engaged in some sort of ecotherapeutic practise already without even realising it. When you go outside for a walk, do you notice a shift or find yourself saying ‘ooo that feels better’? Well that’s it really in its simplest and purest form! Still not sure? Please have a look at the further resources that Emily has on her website, including her free nature based grounding, or get in touch.
*Quote from Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
Individual Sound Baths
The individual Sound Baths allow for a dedicated experience to explore intentions and integrate the experience that are worked through at a deeper level. Jhoana combines therapeutic coaching, the sound bath, aromatherapy and/or flower/plant tea into the individual sound baths for a holistic transformational experience. She offers clients a safe space to discuss their intentions, goals and what a good life would look like, and the Sound Bath is used to work through any blocks and/or to unlock wisdom.
Jhoana is a highly experienced facilitator passionate about holistic healing journeys. She trained as a counsellor over 15 years ago and combines the psychological ‘understanding of self’ with meditation, spirituality and plant/flower modalities. She works with people where they are in their own journey and works with people of all faiths and none.
- All
- Counselling
- Ecotherapy
- Psychotherapy
- Wellbing Coaching
- Sound bath meditation
