Lucinda Weis
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About me
I’m an open, warm and highly empathic therapist who works outdoors in beautiful private woodland. I am passionate about encouraging my adult clients to express, explore and process their thoughts and feeling through their body, heart and hands, as well as their mind. Anxiety, depression, low-self-esteem, relationship problems and emotional agitation and pain, and their symptoms all sit within the body as well as the mind. It therefore makes sense to work at both levels to process and release them, thereby enabling you to have the optimistic, fulfilled and emotionally balanced life you are looking for.
Working in and with nature will allow you to slow down, and take notice of and respond (sometimes through metaphor, movement and artwork) to the ever changing sensory stimuli and dynamics of the natural environment surrounding us. Through this process, you may gain deep insights into who you are, who you would like to be and how, with support, you can get there.
My core dramatherapy training gave me a solid grounding in the theory and practice of general mental health issues, attachment, developmental trauma, movement, play and working with the unconscious. Through further professional trainings and my experiences as mother to birth and adopted children, I have deepened and added to my skills and knowledge base. I now rank anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, grief, parent-child relationships (of all ages), complex trauma, neurodivergence, embodiment, and many issues relating to adopted and looked after children and the systems around them amongst my areas of expertise.
The work with my clients often flags up early life experiences which may have been challenging or painful and which continue to have an impact on their day-to-day life in the here and now. One of the advantages of working with the body is that these experiences can be carefully explored and processed without the need to return to the original experiences or memories. It is a process that you and I engage in as a co-collaboration; with me as guide and you determining what you want to focus on and when.
Training, qualifications & experience
I qualified from the University of Surrey, Roehampton as a Dramatherapist in 2005 and am currently working towards a Certificate in Embodied Psychotherapy which beautifully complements my dramatherapy training and my holistic approach to wellbeing and healing.
Over nearly 20 years, I have worked with adults, children and families in a range of charities, local authorities, residential homes, schools and in private practice. My skills and experience include chronic anxiety, low self esteem, depression, relational trauma, attachment, parent-child relationships, adoption and grief. Professional trainings and personal experience (I am mother to an adopted as well as a birth child) over 20 years have augmented and deepened my theoretical and practical skills.
As well as running a small outdoor therapy practice, I work part time as an Associate at Beacon House Trauma Services based in Cuckfield.
I also completed a Clinical Supervision training in 2021 and offer outdoor supervision for therapists/counsellors and others in the caring professions.
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Fees
£70.00 per session
Free initial telephone or online session
Additional information
I offer 60 and 90 minute therapy sessions, as well as one-off 2hour Emotional MOT / single issue sessions.
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