Everywhere I go I feel like I’m being stalked by pregnant women. It just seems so unfair.” The statement above is fairly representative of the feelings of many clients visiting my therapy room looking for sub-fertility support. The words perhaps best reflect the duality of the sub-fertility experience. Initially we’re drawn to almost a fixation […]
Some years ago the BBC in the UK produced a short documentary series about complementary medicine, where reflexology was featured. The programme makers interviewed a reflexologist and several of her clients. The practitioner had gained a reputation in her local area as “the baby maker”. The clients spoke of how wonderfully relaxing they found the […]
The intention of this blog is to introduce the reader to some of the more complex psychological and ethical concepts related to our verbal interactions within the reflexology context. The article highlights other forms of directive and non-directive therapy, before considering how best to encourage client autonomy and self-directed change in reflexology, through the use […]
At first glance compassion might appear a difficult to measure, rather subjective subject – however, the concept has certainly attracted a great deal of research attention across recent years – principally because of the close philosophical association between compassionate states – and the Buddhist practice of mindfulness. The intention of this blog post is to […]
Power is an element occurring in many everyday human relationships. Consider for a moment the relationship between a parent and child – a teacher and pupil – a manager and worker – a doctor and patient? In many commonly experienced human relationships power is certainly present. In some cases power can provide a useful element […]
The bodily felt sense is a significant phenomenon associated with person-centred counselling and body-oriented psychotherapy. It is essentially the observation of ones own sensory and visceral experiences. Visceral: Adjective 1. Relating to the viscera: the visceral nervous system. 2. Relating to deep inward feelings, rather than intellect. The felt sense is experienced in the physical body and has […]
I would define myself principally as a professional reflexologist (who happens to hold a counselling degree). By the time I applied to start counsellor training I had already been in reflexology practice nearly three years. I had long since worked out there existed a huge number of struggling individuals – sliding between the medical/psychological support […]
Eastern attitudes relating to health and the nature of the universe have remained relatively unaltered across many thousands of years. The absence of influence stemming from classical Greek thinking within Eastern culture means concepts have remained more faithful to their ancient, mystical origins. Initially dismissed on mass by Western thinkers as simply philosophical and ethnological […]
What exactly is Reflexology? At first glance this might seem a relatively simple question to answer. Look a little deeper however, and the question is actually much more complex. Undoubtedly this is an important question, and one worth some considerable reflection by both individual reflexology practitioners, and indeed our wider therapeutic community. Reflexology has been […]
Chronic headache and migraine are distressing and often debilitating conditions. To achieve a medical diagnosis of chronic headache or migraine clients need to report pain across 15 days a month. Most clients are prescribed a cocktail of topical analgesia and prophylactic (preventative) medication. Chronic migraine can present as a stand alone condition, or can display […]
Relational Reflexology 