About Me
Therapies for Self Awareness, Growth, Meaning, Purpose, Relating to Others, Healing
Hello! I’m Joy
MNCPS (Acc.) Counsellor
Areas of Work: Self awareness, self worth, goals, growth, meaning, purpose, mindfulness, relation to others, ecotherapy, grief and loss, trauma
How I work: Online, Walk and Talk therapy (Newtownabbey), hybrid (Online with walk and talk therapy)
Qualifications: Postgraduate Diploma in Psychosynthesis Psychology, Diploma in Counselling, BSc in Human and Organisational Development
Experience:
- Counselling – Fighting All Cancers Together (volunteer), Heart Sessions, Self Connection Therapies
- Team building – Recruitment, Development, Culture Building, Managing, Mentoring
- Training Mental Health Awareness Week (Grief Presenter), Corporate Training (Resilience)
Recent trainings: Trauma Conference – The Body Keeps the Score (PESI), The Trauma Conference(s) – (Action Trauma), The Flash Technique (Havens), Tuning up your EMDR technique (Havens), Practical Integration of Flash with EMDR (Havens), EMDR4wellness (Bierne), Working Creatively with Autistic Clients (Creative Counsellors), Purpose, Passion and Coaching (Creative Counsellors), Soothing Regulation and Art (Creative Counsellors), Anticipatory Loss and Grief (Creative Counsellors), Walk and Talk Therapy (Creative Counsellors), Mindfulness Based Cognitive Practitioner (Priory Academy), Nightmares and Disturbed Sleep Dream Completion Technique (Havens), Flash Technique (EMDR Third Weekend)
Recent reading: Existential Psychotherapy (Yalom), Fight Right (Gottmans), A Matter of Life and Death (Yalom), Healing Grief (Ward), A Therapist’s Guide to EMDR (Parnell), Stress in the City (Li), Recovery of Your Inner Child (Capacchione), Ecotherapy Research and Practice (Jordan, Hinds), The Autistic Brain (Grandin, Panek), Greater than the Sum of our Parts (Schwartz), Art and Science of EMDR (Brayer), When the Body Says No (Mate), The Myth of Normal (Mate), The Body Keeps the Score (van der Kolk), Bearing the Unbearable (Cacciatore)
My Approach & Values
- Gentle, safe, non-judgemental, person-centred
- Focused on your goals, working alongside you
- Tailored approach to each person, drawing from a range of psychologies and methods and considering how you like to work (talking, writing, creating, etc.)
- Holistic approach, considering how activities outside of therapy can support your goals and wellness
- Flexible slots offered, weekly, biweekly or otherwise as agreed
How I’ve Worked with Others
- Helping people to see their own worth, set boundaries and build healthier relationships
- Working with people to understand thoughts and feelings, how to process them, and how to have more choices about their reactions and decisions
- Using grounding techniques, journalling and talk therapy to help people to become more physically healthy and also to improve sleep, mental wellbeing and move forward with purpose
- Supporting people in grief through compassionate listening; helping them to learn how to live with grief in their lives; supporting them to find meaning, purpose and connection after loss
- Using a life path to consider choices, obstacles and outcomes for major life decisions
- Using the flash technique and EMDR to process painful memories
- Incorporating writing, exercise, nature, yoga and other mediums to help people heal inside and outside our sessions
I Work With Individuals & Organisations.
Online Therapy
Online therapy is available from the comfort of your own home or office.
Walk and Talk Therapy
Walk and Talk therapy offers a gentle way to talk, side by side, grounded by nature.
Organisational Support
help others to build and nurture person-centred teams founded on authenticity, purpose, trust and care for each other – leading to happy, high performing, supportive teams.
Walk and Talk Therapy
- Walking creates a gentle environment for sharing, especially when you’re side by side, rather than directly opposite each other.
- Being in nature helps ground us, and is a form of healing. We can use the sounds, sights, smells to calm ourselves if we experience overwhelm.
- I’m on an actual “journey” with my clients. Physical movement helps create unique psychological shifts.
- Walking in nature is a form of EMDR (and is how EMDR was discovered), meaning the left – right eye movements used while walking are natural ways to process feelings, thoughts, memories and trauma.
- Walking increases serotonin levels, which makes us feel better.
- Walking provides opportunities to glimpse moments of awe.
- Read more here.