RUBINA COUNSELLING
Online Emotional Freedom Counselling
What we offer:
We offer you an online space where we work with you at your own pace. This is usually as weekly sessions.
If desirable and possible, we also offer the possibility of working online, intensively over several days, creating a “retreat” environment in your own home.
Based on over 30 years experience, we can confidently offer you help with presenting problems such as: anxiety, social anxiety, stress, childhood trauma, PTSD, phobias, depression, anger, addictions, and also problems with bullying, parenting, and in relationships.
The sessions include a flexible combination of counselling, relaxation and visualisation, learning, in practice, emotional release and new ways of thinking, and Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT, “tapping”). We make appropriate use of the rewind technique and others, as a way to reduce the grip of traumatic memories in your current and future life.
Whoever you are, you are welcome.
About us:
Sarah is a trained counsellor with over 30 years experience of working with people from many walks of life. She is known for her ability to listen intuitively and get to the heart of things very quickly. She will help you move beyond stress, anxiety, depression, grief or anger. She will assist you to use the difficulties and challenges you face as a way of gaining a deeper understanding of yourself and nurturing your inner qualities and capacities.
She started off training in Psychology and Philosophy. In 2002, she took training in Human Givens approach: guided visualisation, the rewind technique for PTSD and phobias, plus extra courses on addiction and depression. Later, she enriched those with a deep understanding of the Sedona Method (welcome and release) and more recently of EFT (tapping).
Lucas has broad experience of teaching thinking skills, which he regards as transformational, both to teachers and clients. With gentleness, clarity and enthusiasm, he will work with you to discover the power of your own creative thinking processes, uncover more of your potential, and put you in the driving seat of your own life. He regards shared reflection on experience as the most important teacher.
He studied Medicine, and practiced Public Health, all of which gave him an understanding of human complex systems. For 15 years, he worked intensively with thinking tools for broad perception and deep creativity.
In this past decade, he has trained in breaking the cycle of depression (Human Givens), PTSD (Advanced Master Program on the Treatment of Trauma, NICABM), and EFT (emotional freedom techniques, or “tapping”). He is a Level 3 Accredited Certified EFT Advanced Practitioner, with EFT International.
He can also work with you in Spanish.
EFT (“tapping”) is a simple “emotional accupuncture” therapy that combines elements of eastern energy medicine with the western approaches of talking therapy. We use gentle tapping on accupressure points which calms the body-mind, while paying conscious attention to physical sensations, emotions and thoughts related to the issue at hand. >>> Learn more
Contact us:
For more information or to make a booking, please contact us on (+44)(0)7969 269 983 (Sarah) or (+44)(0)7960 144 953 (Lucas), email rubinacounselling@gmail.com, or use the enquiry form below.
Prices:
We offer a sliding scale of £40-80/session, so you pay what you can afford.
For more information or to make a booking, please contact us on (+44)(0)7969 269 983 (Sarah) or (+44)(0)7960 144 953 (Lucas), email rubinacounselling@gmail.com, or use the enquiry form.
Some reviews:
Sarah and Lucas are exceptional in what they do! They have helped me get my life back on track after a hard time struggling with anxiety and panic attacks. Lucas did the tapping with me that helped me bring my fear down and I could use as a tool for when I felt anxious out and about. Sarah dug deep with me and helped me to blur my bad memories and release my feelings of fear. I can’t believe how far I have come in a couple of months thanks to them! Highly recommend to everyone xx
Leona, 29 yo, Sept 2023
“Hey Lucas, just wanted to share an experience I had whilst watching TV yesterday. Something usually triggering came up during the show, and I was waiting for my body to go into panic mode (heart racing, wanting to turn it off etc) and nothing happened. I was able to continue watching the show as normal. I didn’t think this was ever going to be possible and wanted to thank you for helping me to get to this point.”
[A few days later, she added the following:]
“The issues that came up in my TV show the other day are still showing and I just can’t believe my own reaction! I empathise with the character but that’s as far as it goes. You have worked true magic and I feel free to enjoy life.”“I know things will happen but feel pretty confident in the tools that you have given me (welcome and release, relaxation).”
Nicola, 27 years old.
I know those events did happen, but they are not there any more. It feels like dropping a heavy rucksack after having carried it for many hours. It’s an incredible sense of freedom.
Laura, 25 years old
(Results with EFT.)
T, 25 years old, told us of her difficulties with teeth since she was 6 years old, including a recent extreme anxiety reaction when she was told she needed dental surgery. After a few sessions, she had the surgical intervention and reported the following:
“Thank you for all your support, I can’t wait to tell you how it all went! I was meant to be the first on the list but all the other patients were more anxious than me so I ended up being last! Incredible!!! EFT is just wonderful.
“I did an online retreat with Sarah and Lucas over the space of a week and a half.
Sarah and Lucas always met me with kindness, warmth and acceptance. Their way of working is flexible and was very focused around my individual wants and needs and my schedule. I loved exploring the creativity that was part of the exercises I did during the retreat. I would go off and work on this by myself and send photos back to them to discuss at the next session.
A session on Thinking Strategies with Lucas was interesting and insightful.
A PTSD session with Sarah allowed me to properly process memories of a traumatic relationship, memories that had been clouding over everything for me over the last five years. I had not been able to process these with my person-centred counsellor who I’d been speaking to regularly for two years, because talking about it made me feel worse, not better. Sarah got me into a relaxed state and the practice involved looking at myself looking at the memories. Immediately after the session, I could feel that something had shifted in me. I feel as if I have moved beyond these memories and that they will not affect me as much as they have in the past. For that, I am very grateful.
I highly recommend doing an online retreat with Sarah and Lucas – I very much doubt you will regret it!”
“Sarah and Lucas hosted a 3 day retreat online for me and what a wonderful, transformational experience. I felt instantly comfortable and supported by them from the moment we started to chat [using online video], and throughout the 3 days it was a great comfort to know Sarah and Lucas were available anytime to talk or support as I needed.
I really enjoyed the mix of the online sessions which included helpful activities, and also the time I had myself to reflect and explore different aspects of my thoughts and emotions. It was quite amazing how I felt my energy shifting even although we were far apart. The sessions were fun, interactive and thought provoking.
During this time of uncertainty I can’t thank Sarah and Lucas enough for hosting a special space for me to connect to myself again and refocus my energy. Thank you so much xx”
(…) her ability to know really well how a person feels, several times I have been very grateful to her as we talk through a situation or problem that I have been dealing with, and always I find a new insight.
(…) find a new and positive way to deal with the many stresses of city life. And to help me find my identity too!…
The word “retreat” has connotations of withdrawal, hiding away, even losing or giving up in the face of defeat. [With Sarah] to retreat is to repeatedly treat myself – to care, healing, comfort, empowerment and peace – with the warmth, wisdom, loving kindness and skills of therapist Sarah.
My deepest gratitude for holding space where I could be authentic, dig deep and find stillness and radiance.
Sarah is a great person, a friend, a counsellor, a mother… and helps so many people who come here to find themselves. […] This is a place of gentle, natural transformations, a space away from the madness of everyday life where I find peace, inspiration, hope, love & most importantly a sense of who we are.
For more information or to make a booking, please contact us on (+44)(0)7969 269 983 (Sarah) or (+44)(0)7960 144 953 (Lucas), email rubinacounselling@gmail.com, or use the enquiry form.
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