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Sand Play Therapy
Natasha Miller – Counsellor and Sandplay Therapist
The warmest of welcomes to my page. It’s my pleasure to meet you… and however you are feeling right now, that’s welcome too.
I don’t know what exactly brought you here, but maybe clarifying what the problem is, how those feelings are, expressing them somehow, can bring some relief and release.
I am a counsellor and sandplay therapist. Many find working together with sand, symbols, and other creative, play-based methods can be a gentle, grounding way to approach difficulties. When we have experienced trauma, loss, or difficulties in life, we don’t always have words to express those feelings and sensations. This can add to feelings of isolation or brokenness. Here is where sand can be a playful, nurturing, creative and restorative way forward. You may find the empathic, accepting relationship we develop can enable you to access areas that just seemed too painful to get near before. We can think together about new ways of being that can get closer to core difficulties, in practical, manageable ways that you experience as safe and grounding.
Research states that paying attention to our breath and the body (where and how we sense and feel things) is essential to re-gaining balance and wellbeing. Sandplay and other creative approaches are excellent ways to incorporate this.
It’s not easy, but here you’ve got my support, compassion, and empathy to explore this together. Someone has your back and brings solidity to help you do this. Wherever or whatever that pain, block, feeling, thought, emotion, stuckness, dread is.
Perhaps you tried counselling before, and it wasn’t the right time or didn’t feel right. I’m happy to hear about that. All your experiences are valid and valued. Working together, you are in control and get to decide the pace and focus. You can expect our primary focus will always on your feeling safe and comfy in the moment.
I accept a limited number of clients to offer a truly bespoke service, tailored to you.
Every single person who comes for Sandplay and counselling is different. Your uniqueness is celebrated here. People find it helpful for:
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Identity, anxiety or lack of confidence or belief in self
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Unhelpful relationship patterns or problems
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Fear and trauma
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Stress and depression
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Loss, endings, change, and grief work
It may help to know a little about me. Prior to being a counsellor, I worked with the very young, right through to the very old, with particular focus on trauma and “otherness,” being and feeling “different.”
From this I have been privileged to witness the pain, shame, trauma, grief, sorrow, loss, courage, despair…and smiles! I have been humbled to welcome all these and make meaning together, always with the deepest respect, compassion, and sincerity.
Beneath all the pain and tears, there is a wonderment to being you, perhaps together we can discover a sense of what that may be.
It would be my absolute pleasure to welcome you, too.
50-minute sessions available in-person for £50.
Please call our admin team on 0208 616 2160 or email enquiries@caretolisten.co.uk to discuss this service in more detail.