Sonia Manning
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About me
- Psychospiritual Counsellor & Psychotherapist
- Psychic Intuitive
- Master Healer
- Advanced Spiritual Teacher & Guide
- Founder and Director of the Anam Cara Holistic Centre
Question:
So who am I? What makes me unique and different?
Answer:
The story of my own Soul Searching, Quest for Truth and Divine Knowledge, Continued Student and Sincere Traveller on the Path of Life.
Therefore in short:
“This is my vocation. This is what I am”
And how is that expressed?
That I am the Founder and Director of the Anam Cara Holistic Centre (since 2008). This being an expression of my own personal and professional development, which continues to this day. My vision realised, a centre dedicated to the healing of the mind, body and spirit. A space to enable the search for answers to our deepest and most profound questions, to facilitate the continued development of both the ego self and the spiritual self, all to help reach our greater potential.
A Centre which combines both Western psychology (mind, body, feelings, behaviours) with Eastern philosophy (the search for Meaning, Purpose, Spiritual Growth and to realise our Highest Values). All delivered in a calm, safe, intelligent and mature environment.
My work often appeals to those who are creative, intelligent and curious, who are often struggling, feeling lost, confused, hurt or stuck.
My role is to be their companion, guide, teacher, facilitator or witness to their story and life experiences. All to help lead them through their doubts and difficulties from unconscious to conscious.
All to enable them to get to know who they most truly are, and therefore be able to live more authentic, balanced and happier lives. More free and aligned in the flow of their lives.
See more here: "The Journey to here”
Areas of work:
- Abuse
- Addiction
- Anger Management
- Anxiety
- Bereavement
- Breakups
- Bullying
- Burnout
- Coaching
- Couple counselling
- Depression
- Despair
- Domestic abuse
- Eating disorders
- Emotional abuse
- Envy
- Family therapy
- Fears
- Grief
- Jealousy
- Loneliness
- Loss and change
- Low self confidence
- Low self esteem
- Mental abuse
- Obsessive compulsive disorders
- Panic attacks
- Personal development
- Phobias
- Physical abuse
- Post natal depression
- Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Psychological abuse
- Relationship counselling
- Relationship problems
- Self confidence issues
- Self doubt
- Self harm
- Self worth
- Separation and divorce
- Sexual abuse
- Shock
- Social anxiety
- Spiritual development
- Stress
- Suicidal feelings/thoughts
- Trauma
- Trust issues
- Work related stress
Training, qualifications & experience
- PG (DIP) Keele
- M (BACP)
- Founder and Director of the Anam Cara Holistic Centre
- Advanced Master Healer
- Advanced Inner Child Regression Therapist
- Advanced family/transgenerational (unresolved trauma) specialist
- Advanced Psychospiritual trainer/guide/teacher for:
Those emerging from unconsciousness to consciousness or those in spiritual pain - “The Dark Night of the Soul”
- Psychospiritual Psychotherapist
- Integrative Psychotherapist
- Psychodynamic Psychotherapist
- Advanced coach/mediator/negotiator/trainer for:
Personal or professional development/family members/organisations or couples/groups/family business members
- Skilled, practical short-term solution focussed techniques and support for better symptom management
- Advanced crisis management and support for psychological or spiritual emergency or breakdown
A brief overview of some of my professional Counselling and Psychotherapy work and history would include:
- Working within a large GP practice as an integrated team member, supporting a large group of GPs and medical staff for 9 years
- Working for various Birmingham Government and Civil Service departments supporting staff and management
- Working for Birmingham Police Service
- Working for Birmingham Social Services
- Working for Birmingham Prison Service
- Being one of three psychotherapists who generated the funding and formal founding of a registered charity offering a highly successful counselling service. This service ran for many years providing much needed support within a highly deprived community for both individuals and families.
- Running many advanced and highly creative workshops within the Anam Cara Holistic Centre covering various themes and topics. I personally developed many unique and creative tailor-made courses to cover personal, professional and spiritual aspects of development. These various courses were highly popular and well attended over several years.
- My own continued personal and professional development, which included over a 20 year period, frequently travelling abroad to learn from many Spiritual Masters as well as other highly advanced teachers of psychology. Learning very advanced techniques of healing, utilising honed psychic intuition, advanced spiritual psychology and the interplay between the ego/human experience and our deeper/authentic spiritual selves. This further sharpened with an additional four year training period of advanced learning in Psychosynthesis (Psychospiritual psychology) within an accredited London training school.
For more information, details and examples of my work, visit my website Anam Cara Holistic Centre and read my many and varied case studies, testimonials, written magazine articles. F.A.Qs and my Q&A responses.
Member organisations
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred).
Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision.
Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training.
All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
- Break ups
- Coaching
- Conflict resolution
- Confusion
- Couple counselling
- Despair
- Dilemmas
- Emotional pain
- Envy
- Family therapy
- Fears
- Grief
- Hopelessness
- Hurt
- Loss and change
- Mental abuse
- Personal development
- Psychological abuse
- Relationship counselling
- Self confidence issues
- Self doubt
- Self worth
- Shock
- Spiritual development
- Stuck
- Trust issues
Therapies offered
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Fees
£90.00 per session
Additional information
£90.00 for 60 minutes
£135.00 for 90 minutes
£180.00 for 120 minutes
For individuals or up to two people (couples/family members/work or organisational members)
Fees on request
For three or more individuals (family members/work or organisational members)
Costing to be calculated dependent on requirements or specialist needs (counselling/coaching/selective training/mediation/management or improved organisational skills or techniques)
Further information
Therapies offered
Alongside traditional and well established Western psychology and psychotherapy theories, all work will also embrace and integrate Eastern and spiritual philosophies.
Possible themes we will cover:
- The Soul’s Journey
- The Hero’s Journey (bravery and courage)
- The Search for Self/our True Identity
- Who am I?
- The Search for our deeper Purpose, Meaning and Values
- Who is the Authentic me (true me) as opposed to the Adapted me (oughts/shoulds)?
- The ongoing, ever unfolding journey from the Unconscious me to the Conscious me
- The Traveller willing to enter the unknown mysteries of this life and beyond
- An integration of the forgotten, alienated, wounded, discarded, dismembered aspects of self
The "Dark Night of the Soul”
Back to the Whole/Divine self – a healing and remembering of our true nature
“We are Spiritual Beings having an earthly/human experience”
Why?
For what?
- The impulse towards Growth and Self Actualisation – how to learn to recognise, listen, discern and hear the quiet, still voice of truth within (Spirit) separate from the many, often chattering, voices of the ego self
- Birth, Death, Rebirth – understanding the cycles of life - everything has a beginning, middle and end. What about your past lives? Future lives? What is still held in the wider, collective story of your own family and past generations? And possibly still holding much influence – for better or worse
Methods of work
- Inner Child regression/trance work including automatic writing, art work, guided visualisation, or more practical exercises to engage the Inner Child with the adult self
- The use of dreams, symbols, metaphor, visions, guided imagination techniques to access the Soul’s voice/wise messages that are all held in your deeper unconscious
- Creative writing and story telling, for example, writing your own fairy tale and using psychology to extract the deeper messages behind the written words/story lines. Another example would be writing a story from your deathbed in the future to your current self
- The Journey of the Soul - bringing into your sessions important objects, artifacts, photographs etc that tell your personal story then extracting the deeper meaning and messages contained therein
- Various trance techniques, for example, Regression, Meditation, Relaxation. All to enable the ego to step aside to allow for the greater (yet unconscious) wisdom to surface
- Learning Mindfulness, Self Awareness, “Right Relationship”
- Right thought
- Right speech
- Right action
- To do no Harm
Especially important in areas of interpersonal conflict/challenge/difference
How to manage negotiation with maturity and wisdom
There are many maps/models/exercises to choose from
- Using artwork/practical exercises to identify and resolve unhelpful and restrictive belief systems, assumptions, mindsets, fears, phobias, guilt, shame, prejudices etc.
- Grounding/stress release techniques:
- Breathwork
- Emotional freedom techniques (tapping)
- Sacred rituals, how to create and apply
- Learning how to discipline and quieten the ego
- "Being" not "Doing"
- Awareness and Will – How to integrate and apply newly gathered insights into your existing life and relationships with maturity and skill
- Chakra/Energy/Aura Work – learning about the Body/Feelings/Mind/Spirit interplay and how, in every moment, we simultaneously express on each of these levels, our current state of ease/dis-ease
- Learning how to read and diagnose our own feedback mechanisms
- How your “psychology becomes your biology” - That your life and experiences are a reflection of every choice and decision you have made to date
- Crisis/emergency work. This can often be misdiagnosed and pathologised by traditional medics. Ego breakdown/crisis is often an attempt by an individual to break through and get beyond their limitations or stuckness. This can be complex work but if a client is willing it can be enormously liberating and freeing – profound shifts for the better can be achieved.
