by Dione Davies | Art Therapy, Counselling, Finding myself
A most amazing podcast I recently listened to an amazing podcast and I just had to share a thing from it! Do you like podcasts? I love podcasts! Maybe it’s because I’m not a very good reader. I’m a good reader but I don’t enjoy reading...
by Dione Davies | Anxiety, Counselling
Surprise covid alerts If you were in New Zealand in August 2020 you know that we’ve had these alerts and that things are happening covid-wise in New Zealand. Did you get alerts on your phone? I got one last night and I’ve had four this morning and they...
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...
by Dione Davies | Counselling
We are in different locations As you know, online counselling is counselling that is provided when the counsellor and client are not located in the same room together at the same time, which is the normal way that counselling would occur. They may be in different...
by Dione Davies | Counselling
Part II in the Online Counselling Series You’ve heard me talk about online counselling. You know I help people who feel lost, who feel they have lost themselves, and who are stuck. You know I often work with people suffering from depression and anxiety and often the...
by Dione Davies | Counselling
I provide online counselling and art therapy, but some of you might be lost at even those few words. What even is online counselling? Firstly, what is counselling? I use the word counselling, because that is the term we use in New Zealand. But other places might use...
by Dione Davies | Anxiety, Art Therapy, Counselling, Depression
Hi! It feels like a long time since I’ve talked to you but it probably isn’t for you! Recently I followed through on something I mentioned in a previous video and I attempted to go up the Hakarimatas with my daughter. And it was an interesting experience!...
