Elizabeth Hills

My profile summarises:

• The cost of living a life devoid of meaning; the imagination is a mode of knowing
• Anxiety
• Stages of Grief
• Neurodiversity
• Trauma, epigenetics & psychological inheritance; Ancestral Healing.
• How I work: Anima Mundi principle; Spiritual emergence; Single Session Therapy (SST).
• Astrological Natal Chart

I blend together counselling, Jungian therapy & psychological astrology.  I work for an Employee Assistant Programme and in private practice.  Previous roles include trauma, baby loss, perinatal, cancer and bereavement counsellor. 

Prior to a counselling vocation, I worked in the Defence & Aerospace industry and I have 16 years’ experience as a Royal Air Force Logistics Officer and Programme Management Analyst.  

The cost of living a life devoid of meaning

Dr Carl Jung (1875-1961) writes about the lack of meaning in 1933 in, ‘Modern Man in Search of a Soul’, suggesting his patients’ neurosis was attributable to living a life devoid of meaning.  In my experience, I believe this is still the case in the 21st century.

[‘Neurosis’, a term used in the 20th century, to refer to mental disorders characterised by anxiety, depression, or other feelings of unhappiness or distress].

Our souls include the mythopoetic and the imaginal as another mode of knowing (right brain hemisphere).  Ignoring these needs the soul is bereft, under-nourished and we live a one-sided existence overly reliant on logic and directed will (i.e. left brain hemisphere).  This is a modern day Westerners’ problem.

Guided by your unique astrological natal chart, this will help to find meaning in life.  From the banal daily routine to understanding your generations’ struggles, the zeitgeist of the collective & your role within the cosmos.  With meaning, we can endure suffering thus develop resilience.

Anxiety is a normal physiological response to difficulties, crisis, grief and change.  I coach clients in:

• Normalising anxiety
• Understanding the physiology of anxiety
• Anxiety management techniques.
• Working with the body’s wisdom and reading symptoms symbolically.  Exploring, ‘what might the body be communicating here?’

In my experience, clients find relief simply from talking through their worries and struggles with a counsellor, getting it ‘off their chest’ and benefit from ‘off-loading’ in a confidential and judgmental-free space.

Grief

Anxiety is part of grieving, and the stages of grief are not limited to the death of someone.  Stages of grief arise during any loss, change and periods of personal-growth and developmental transformations.

• I coach clients through the stages of grief.
• Anger at the personal-level needs release if anger is to be transformed at the collective level.  "Make ART not war".
• Reaching genuine acceptance, you have the capacity for compassion, forgiveness and empathy.

Neurodiversity

I am starting to see patterns in the natal charts of neurodivergent clients and this method allows for a client to understand their unique way of thinking and responding to the world around them.

The natal chart perspective benefits both neurodivergent and neurotypical clients.  Astrology mirrors generational themes and offers both perspective and understanding on this natural evolutionary shift unfolding in today’s neurodiversity.

Trauma

Previously I worked as a perinatal specialist counsellor with Petals, the baby loss counselling charity, supporting couples and mothers to grieve and process trauma. This intervention helps reduce 'psychological affect' (as per epigenetics research) being passed to surviving babies who are born following baby loss.

Personally I am interested in ancestral healing and I have worked on my own family lineage applying the teachings of Dr Daniel Foor: https://ancestralmedicine.org/.  Foor's work contributes to an understanding of how psychological affect is inherited and forms both personal and family complexes.  The astrological natal chart amplifies psychological family complexes and ancestral inheritance in addition to individual's complexes.

How I work

My philosophy espouses an ensouled world or Anima Mundi principle and spirituality.

I work in the here and now; starting with this moment in time; I meet you where you are at NOW.  Acknowledging the here and now allows any conscious change to take place and is guided by humanistic psychology.

Weaving the astrological natal chart into the sessions, I work with your unconscious to compensate and to balance out the ego perspective.  I work psychotherapeutically using psychoanalytic (inc Jungian dream analysis) and psychodynamic approaches.

The impact of trauma, cancer and major events can be life changing resulting in ‘Spiritual Emergence’ – work pioneered by Stanislav Grof, Czech psychiatrist.  This awakening can be misdiagnosed as psychosis and unnecessarily medicated against.  I support clients experiencing new realms of mystical and spiritual experience.

Astrological Natal Chart

The natal chart is an image of psyche read as a sacred text using the hermeneutic fourfold method: literal, allegorical, tropological (symbolic) & mystical.  Interpretations without this adherence seem nonsensical, fated and reductive – similar to dreams if interpreted literally!  

Video available on You Tube of counselling with astrology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jne7lLxq28o

Sessions

• Single Session Therapy ('SST') 60 or 90 minutes
• Short to longer term therapy (60 minutes).
• You do not have to commit to a certain number of sessions.
• Ad hoc sessions are available.
• Astrology is optional.

What to do next? Taking the first step…

• Contact me for a free 15 minute discovery call as way of an introduction.
• If you would like to go ahead with a session we'll make a diary booking.
• If you would like to include astrology in your session, I will prepare your natal chart in advance of our first session together.

For further details visit https://linktr.ee/awayintwoworlds

• Single Session Therapy (SST) 60 mins £110; 90 minutes £137.50
• £55 for 60 minutes + natal chart preparation deposit of £55 - first session only.

Dr Safron Rossi suggests astrology as a ‘cosmology for soul’ bridging the psychological and mythological thus fulfilling the soul's needs for the mythopoetic and imaginal other ways of knowing (right brain hemisphere).  

Spiritual Emergence is, as described by Stanislav Grof’s in his book, ‘Spiritual Emergency: When Personal Transformation Becomes A Crisis‘:

“The process of growth and change becomes chaotic and overwhelming.  Individuals may feel that their sense of identity is breaking down, that their old values no longer hold true, and that the very ground beneath their personal realities is radically shifting.  New realms of mystical and spiritual experience enter their lives suddenly and dramatically, resulting in fear and confusion.  They feel tremendous anxiety, have difficulty coping with their daily lives, jobs and relationships, and my even fear for their own sanity.  When understood and treated in a supportive manner, spiritual emergencies can become gateways to higher levels of functioning and new ways of being.”

Link to Grof’s book on Amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spiritual-Emergency-Personal-Transformation-Consciousness/dp/0874775388