Remote therapy and consultancy from the convenience of your home or office, plus face to face or outdoor options
I work with issues relating to identity or belonging, including mixed culture, suspected or diagnosed neurodivergence, or GSRD
I will give you a safe and confidential space, free of judgement, to explore whatever is difficult in your life, and to help you identify what you might want to change
Services available
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One-to-one,
remote therapy
I have full training and extensive experience in video, audio, and SMS therapy, as well as through email for those who may prefer no interruptions, or who struggle with regular time commitments.
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In-person therapy, indoors and outdoors
I offer sessions from a cosy confidential therapy cabin, or outdoor counselling (also known as walk and talk), where we sit or walk in a local nature spot.
Non-walking babies are welcome to attend your session with you.
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Consultancy
I offer consultancy to teachers, carers and parents around how to support young neurodivergent people at home or in the school environment (e.g. ADHD, PDA, autism).
This is for those that feel they are ‘out of ideas’, or that ‘traditional’ (aka neurotypical) parenting or teaching strategies aren’t working.
I’m Nina
I am a native English-speaking therapist offering in-person sessions in north west Stockholm, and remote work for all clients, whether in Sweden or internationally.
I am a UK-accredited Gestalt therapist with 30 years’ experience in the fields of mental health and psychology, and as a therapist since 2010. I work creatively, using whatever helps you to understand yourself or your situation better.
I specialise in helping people who struggle to fit in, or don’t know where they belong, especially where issues arise through living a mixed culture life, suspected or diagnosed neurodivergence (e.g. ADHD, PDA, dyslexia, autism), the twin relationship, or confusion around gender, sexuality or relationships.
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Identity issues around the twin relationship
Many people who have come across me and my work are aware that I am come from difference – specifically mixed culture and neurodivergence – …
Info dumping versus collecting the strays
I came across a post yesterday by @unmaskedbyanna (IG) about ‘autistic info dumping’ and the differing ways that different people communicate. She commented that she …
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Morning essentials - cuppa, book, sunshade and mosquito spirals.
The difference to back home is that the book is a novel, instead of something for work. In fact, I`ve read three and am on my fourth, and highly recommend all of them. (As an aside, it`s so glorious having time to read novels, and I realise I need to make more time during my back home life).
By `chance` I have chosen books that to me represent the paths we choose in life, the choices we make, and what we do if we make the wrong choices. I`m not sure I really believe much is by chance, and I`m definitely in the next phase of life, figuring what I want post kids, identity shifts or identity definition, so they have given me food for contemplation.
#novels #reading #holidays #essentials
The cleansing, cooling rain - after the heavy and oppressive heat - has finally come! Everything is bearable in small doses, and even welcome, if you wait long enough for it.
Life is filled with moments that we can grasp as opportunities for nourishment. Break up the difficult periods by searching for these moments, and reminding yourself that everything is transient.
#transience #mindfulness #impermanence #rain
Which are your favourites and why?
I`ll go first.
Number 3. The light entices me, draws me in, makes me wonder what is around the corner, makes me excited about what is coming, the unknown that is awaiting me.
Number 1 also draws me. I love the full moon, the light that returns with consistency, the shapes of the iron work, beauty in their flowing forms, the sense that the door has been there for decades watching and welcoming generations, reminding me of transience and the comfort to be found in knowing that all things pass.
And as I reread my words, they serve as a reminder of what the key themes of my life are right now.
#creativecounselling #photography #subconsciousmind #croatia #velilošinj
Picking the sun-dried bay leaves I cut fresh from our bay tree a few weeks ago, so that @swenglishmamma and @willowytwillowy will have home grown bay leaves, dried and gathered with love, for their cooking.
I love the sound and meditative calm that this task brings me. 💜
#bayleaf #herbs #meditation #homegrown #madewithlove #asmr #croatia
Picking the sun-dried bay leaves I cut fresh from our bay tree a few weeks ago, so that @swenglishmamma and @willowytwillowy will have home grown bay leaves, dried and gathered with love, for their cooking. 💜
#bayleaf #herbs #cooking #homegrown #madewithlove
I`ve been basking in the glorious, gentle, light slanting through the bedroom window on summer mornings since I was tiny.
Lighting is very important for many neurodivergent people, and not only can cause stress or overload when it`s too bright or the wrong frequency or flickering, but can cause intense feelings of peace or pleasure when it is just right.
This, for me, is just right.
#lighting #light #neurodivergent
A trip to Mali Lošinj to see the mermaid with the kids. My favourite activities, anywhere, are relaxing in cafes and ambling down random streets with no goal in mind. I miss doing this, and while I catch snippets of this, and it is nourishing for the soul, it`s definitely a `without kids` activity, and preferably without people, so my mind can wander freely. Until I have freedom to do this properly, I`ll take my snippets and allow them to keep nourishing me in small doses.
#malilošinj #croatia #urbanphotography
Hair cut time, with the lovely @rafaela.ela23 - my annual Croatian cut. Very happy with the result. 🙏💜
As with most wavy/curly heads, I came out like a poodle, and it took a few washes/saltwater swim to settle down, but it`s getting there now!
#wavyhair #velilosinj #haircut
