Grace For Healing
Trauma-Informed Christian Counselling

About

This website is split into two. There is the counselling side, and then the blog where I share my personal thoughts on how to combine counselling concepts with God’s Word.

For more on the blog, see GRACEFORHEALING and 3 PILLARS OF HEALING

Hi! I’m Lorna.

I’m a former teacher turned counsellor with a passion for God’s healing and the mind-body connection.

It’s so good to meet you.

If you’re reading this, you may be experiencing difficulties. “In this life you will have trouble”. The reality is, no-one is immune from difficulties, otherwise, we’d be living in Heaven.

 

HOW COUNSELLING HELPS:

 

We all have the need to feel seen and heard and counselling gives you a safe space for you to explore the issue you’re facing.

It is a safe empathic space, free from judgements and criticisms.

Sometimes talking to someone outside your family and friends offers you the freedom to be yourself in a world where that can be increasingly difficult.

A fresh new perspective might help.

If you would like to read about how counselling can help you, and more about my approach, please see CHRISTIAN COUNSELLING ONLINE UK

There are tools available to help you regulate your nervous system, build self-love and move forward.

 

WHY YOU MIGHT NEED HELP:

 

We all need help from time to time. It’s a myth that counselling is for people who can’t cope. Anyone can benefit because we’re all navigating our way through life as best we can.

We are a product of our upbringing. Learned behaviours and patterns of thinking that we develop in early childhood cause us to lose ourselves.

It’s sad, but often we don’t realise because we think it’s who we really are.

Trauma isn’t what happens to us. It’s the imprint of those adverse events, circumstances or experiences in our physiology.

This is unhealed trauma that is still influencing us today.

 

A LITTLE ABOUT MY EXPERIENCES:

 

Since qualifying, most of my experiences with clients are in the realm of long-term conditions like anxiety, depression and chronic pain in the charity sector.

We are safe, but our nervous system thinks we’re running away from a tiger. It’s that chronic feeling of terror inside us that we can’t escape from.

Or perhaps you don’t feel anything at all, you’re numb and all is hopeless. You’ve detached from your body and now live in your head.

Do these sound familiar at all?

If so, I hope I can help.

 

HOPE:

 

Even if you’ve been struggling your whole life, there is always hope for recovery. I hope you’ll allow me to support you on your healing journey.

 

TRAINING:

 

My training is as follows:

  • Foundations of Polyvagal Informed Practice Level 1 (Polyvagal Institut)
  • Complex Trauma Certification Training Levels 1 & 2 (in progress)
  • Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling Level 4
  • Counselling Skills Level 3
  • Counselling Concepts Level 2
  • The Integrative Somatic Parts Work Certificate Level 1
  • Diploma in Attachment Theory
  • Somatic Interventions for Chronic Pain & Syndromes
  • Howard Schubiner’s Freedom from Chronic Pain (Somatic Tracking, Pain reprocessing therapy, IFS)
  • Smartbody Smartmind Alumni
  • PGCE
  • BA (Hons) German