by Dione Davies | Counselling, Finding myself
I listened to Braving the Wilderness, read by Brene Brown Hey everyone! This past week I read a book. It’s pretty miraculous! I don’t actually read very many books and, to be completely honest, actually I didn’t read this book. I listened to it on...
by Dione Davies | Anxiety, Art Therapy, childhood trauma, Counselling, Depression, Finding myself
The miracle question There is a counselling approach called Solution Focused Therapy and one of the techniques that they use in this counseling approach is called the miracle question. This question is a life changer. And I sometimes accidentally say the golden...
by Dione Davies | Anxiety, Art Therapy, Counselling, Depression, Finding myself
About focus and positive thinking Do you know how a camera works? How you can focus a camera? You know you turn the front or, you know, you push a button on your phone or whatever. Anyway what happens is that you can choose which part of what you see will be in sharp...
by Dione Davies | Anxiety, Art Therapy, childhood trauma, Counselling, Depression, Finding myself
I’m going to talk to you about free writing. Now I don’t know who came up with this term. I didn’t. It’s not my thing. I learned it from my sister Shelly in a creative writing class she taught. Some people call it stream of consciousness...
by Dione Davies | Anxiety, Counselling
A trick from a friend Today we’re talking about anxiety and a little trick I learned from a friend. Yes here’s a little trick from me, an anxiety counsellor in NZ. She heard this from a podcast called choiceology or something like that. I have yet to...
by Dione Davies | Counselling
As a counsellor with a practice that is 100% online, I am a huge advocate of online counselling. I enjoy it and believe it is very effective. I also believe that it provides a whole raft of added benefits that regular, in person, counselling does not. The biggest...
