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Heidi Leipnik

7 Brooklands, Carlton Road, South Godstone, Surrey, RH9 8LH

Telephone: 07941 285743
Email: heidi@heidileipnik.com

RECENT BLOG POSTS

Packing up for the break and making sure I (psychologically) pack all I need to take with me.
Preparing to end my monthly blog in anticipation of a return to old practice brings opportunity to reflect on how we engage with endings.
It has been a month of feelings falling out.
A year on and where are we now? Let me have a look around and get my bearings …
A misty March morning and difficulty seeing the way ahead. Another parallel in our world as we move forward with uncertainty.

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As the yogi says, 'I love what comes and I love wh

As the yogi says, 'I love what comes and I love what goes'.

My closing blog and many endings ahead of the summer break. Link in bio.

Offering an example of reclaiming the good amidst so much which still threatens.

Go safely. Go well.

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#intherapytoday #selfcareeveryday #selflovematters #endingtherapy #summerbreakbegins #garethsouthgatethewholeofenglandiswithyou #internalfamilysystemstherapy #counsellingservice #psychologyspeaks #keeptalkingmh🌻 #thetalkingcureproject #commoncourtesy #transactionalanalysis #psychotherapistonline #bekindtooneanother #keephopingforabetterday #changes #help #carepackage #internalworkingmodel #psychoanalysis

Preparing to end this chapter of writing a blog as

Preparing to end this chapter of writing a blog as hope grows for my return to pre-Covid practice in the Autumn. For me that means thinking about going back indoors with clients and reclaiming something of what was lost last year.

This month's penultimate blog considers how loss and letting go deserves attention and how integrating lost parts of ourselves gives us wholeness.

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#gethelpgethealed #therapyworks #psychotherapy #psychotherapist #keeptalkingmh #mentalhealthrecovery #thetalkingheads #getclosertoyourself #selfcaretips #writeitoutloud #talkitoutstories #grief #mourning #endings #lettinggo #internalfamilysystemsmodel #innerstrength #innerworks #endingsbeginnings #healyourheart #reflect

Sending out my gratitude to those who have made th

Sending out my gratitude to those who have made this Covid period so far as meaningful and as survivable as it has been.

To my clients, my colleagues, Ant and Dean #footprintweb, my family and my companions inside and out... Thank you

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#grateful #thankyou #hopeful #heartful #humble #helpingothers #loveyou #footprintweb #clientappreciation #reachoutandtouchsomeone #selfcarethreads #kinder #goodgrowth #connections #innerworkisthebestwork #innerouter #therapistlife #onlinecounselling #likeminds

I reflect this month on what happens when feelings

I reflect this month on what happens when feelings fall out 😮🤔

Thanks to the Royal Academy and their project 'Varnishing Day: A Moment in Time' for prompting this exploration.

I ask how we are responding to the events of this past year. I ask that we pay kind attention to our emotional selves as we come out the other side.

Link to blog in bio.....

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#therapytalks #psychotherapies #selfcare #talkingcure #askforhelp #mindmatters
#selfkindness #royalacademyarts #varnishingday2020 #traceyemin #reachout #naturetherapy #arttherapy #talkingtherapy #selfmatters #mentalhealth #wellbeing #balance #selfworth #followyourpath #therapistspeak #kindness #newthoughts #therapistblog

The National Trust's search for blossom underpins

The National Trust's search for blossom underpins this month's reflection.

April sees a year of writing my blog. I look back as I try to get my bearings.

Link to blog in bio

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#ntblossomwatch #intherapy #stayconnected🔌 #therapyonline #therapyoutdoors #talkingtherapyuk #lookuplookin #gethelp #askforhelp❤️ #reachoutandtouchsomething #unlockinglockdown #counsellingstudent #counsellingpsychologytraining #psychotherapies #naturehelps

March Mist ... This month's blog reflects on our

March Mist ...

This month's blog reflects on our time in March's mist and fog, wether in this felt 'fog' of lockdown or the unclear path sometimes felt in therapy.

It can be helpful just to know that this fog will lift.

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#keeptalkingandnobodyexplodes #reachoutandread #intherapy #onlinecounselling #psychotherapistinthehouse #therapyhelpswiththat #naturehealsus #connectwithnature #connectwithself #therapistsofinstagram #selfhelpthreads #speakoutloud #innerworkings #parallelprocesses #innerandouter #mirroringeachother

Stand tall, little Oak....... February's blog in

Stand tall, little Oak.......

February's blog invites us to look outside ourselves and find resonance in what is good and natural around us.

The external damage we see in our world reflects what is going on inside and gives us a framework to help us understand, make sense of and manage our struggles.

We can stand tall with our wounds. They do not diminish us.

Keep going. Reach up.

Link to blog in bio.

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#intherapy #igototherapy #psychotherapy #naturenurtures #outsideinside #resonancewithnature #keeptalking #notalone #counsellingandpsychotherapy #therapytoday #selfcare #therapyme #intherapytraining #reachuplookup #talkingcures #connectwithin #selfsoothe #onlinetherapy #standtall #tomorrowwillbeagoodday #captaintom #littleoak

Mary Poppins Returns, 2018 💜 Look within, at

Mary Poppins Returns, 2018

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Look within, at the beginning, middle and end, to understand your full story and please don't judge yourself on today alone

It's hard. Find your manageable path

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Link to blog in bio

#bluemonday #brewmonday #lockdown3 #counsellinghelps #intherapy #psychotherapy #selfcare #therapytoday #bacp #ifs #tavirelations #keeptalking #lifeishard #reachoutforhelp #bekindtoyou #dontjudgeabook #intreatment #psychologisttalk #therapistspeak #woundedhealer #natureheals

However Peace presents itself to you, I hope that

However Peace presents itself to you, I hope that amidst the chaos, doubt, fear, uncertainty and challenge this Christmas you will find moments of peace, stillness, quiet and ease.

These moments offer balance, restoration, equilibrium and are essential for regulation and wellbeing.

It's all about balance.

Even if Christmas holds no religious meaning for you, we face the end of the year.... A time to reflect, refresh, renew and start again with our hopes, promises, aims and dreams.

Go well over this period of ending and beginning. We all await a new year. None of us know what lies ahead. May we hold ourselves and others well and with kindness as we step further into the unknown.

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#intherapy #counsellinghelp #therapytoday #askforhelp #talkingcure #iamintherapy #psychology_health #counsellinghelps #talkitout #reachouttooneanother #onlinetherapy #onlinecounselling #selfhelp #mindmatters #writeyourthoughts #naturetherapy #walktalktherapy #selfcareposts #loveyourself #keeptalking #therapists #clienttherapistmatters #clientcounsellormoments #likeyourselffirst #hopeinnature #selfdevelopment #allthingschange

This Red Sky at Night reminds me that good things

This Red Sky at Night reminds me that good things come.....

Beginnings.... The other side of Endings

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#keephoping #changecomesfromwithin #thistoowillpass #endingsandbeginnings #onlinecounselling #therapyiscool #therapists #therapyinnature #skyphotography #talkingcures

Christmas and New Year bring a rich mix of emotion

Christmas and New Year bring a rich mix of emotions and see us coming to the end of a most challenging year.

As we approach this evocative time, paying attention to how we respond through the lens of our earlier experiences helps bring compassion and ease to our emotional selves and helps us through.

The theme of this month's blog. Link in bio.

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#counsellinghelps #psychotherapyonline #thetalkingcure #igototherapy #reachouttooneanother #selfcareposts #selfawarenes #attachmentandloss #psychology #selfcompassion #selfkindness #growingthroughchange #talkaboutit #ifs #therapytoday #psychosynthesis #bowlbyattachmenttheory #intherapy #intreatment #keeptalking #stayconnected

Can we find a Safe Space within ourselves? If our

Can we find a Safe Space within ourselves? If our world, our home, our relationship is feeling unsafe, can we escape it and retreat to a safe, calm space within?

Finding or creating our safe space physically and mentally is becoming more vital as lockdowns become familiar.

This month's blog looks into how we can create ours. Link in bio.

May we all find a safe space to dwell.

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#safespacewithin #counsellinghelp #therapytoday #keeptalking #askforhelp #innerwork #psychotherapyonline #thetalkingcure #writeyourthoughts #naturetherapy #psychology #attachmenttheory #intherapy #igototherapy #internaldialogue #gethelpgetbetter #bekindtoyourmind #walkandtalk #ecotherapy #mindmatters #counsellingcoach #therapistspeak

Dark nights... They pass 💜 Keep waiting 💜

Dark nights... They pass 💜

Keep waiting

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#counsellinghelp #seekhelpifneeded #holisticpsychotherapy #naturetherapy🍃 #therapytoday #keeptalkingaboutit #mentalhealthhelp #selfcareposts #psychologytoday #shareyourstory #bekindtoyourselfeveryday #selfawarenes #writeitout #feelingsad #reachouttooneanother #safespaces

Whether your Safe Space is in your head, your kitc

Whether your Safe Space is in your head, your kitchen, your garden, your bathroom, your office... Please find it. Use it. Be in it.

If your therapy session is now online, think about where you want to sit to have that video call. Where are you most comfortable? Where do you feel most safe? And think too about taking a few minutes before and after each session. You don't have the travel time to get yourself ready for the session.... Or ready for emerging after the session before going back to your life outside... So take a few minutes to stay sitting before and after to help you make that transition.

Space is as important as connection... Where is yours?

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#stayconnected #safespace #bravespace #counsellingandpsychotherapy #talkingcure #intherapy #intreatment #psychotherapy #keeptalking #takeamentalhealthday #gowell #askforhelp #bacptherapytoday #mentalhealth #staysafe
#talktoeachother #coupletherapy #mindmatters #selfhelp #igototherapy

Going with this today 💜 #thistooshallpass #re

Going with this today

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#thistooshallpass #reachouttogether #dontsufferinsilence #onlinecounselling #psychotherapytraining #psychology_health #therapytodaymagazine #bekindtoyourmind #selfcarepost #gowellpath #naturetherapyforsoul #staysafe❤️ #keepwell #intherapy #igototherapy #naturetherapy🌿

We are a combination of many parts, many emotions,

We are a combination of many parts, many emotions, many thoughts, many feelings.

When these are in balance they work for our greater good. We find they compliment each other and work in harmony.

When we feel out of balance it is worth paying attention to what dominates, not attempt to suppress it. Listen to the demanding element. It may be sadness. Or anger. Resentment. Grief. Envy. It may be ill health.

Respond to it. What does it need? Expression? Empathy? Containment? Validation? Rest? Nourishment? Can you give it what it needs?

Please try to! This way we have the opportunity to regain balance without denying our necessary, human traits. We accept, integrate, heal, respond. We grow. We live.

Go well, with all you have.

#selfhelpers #therapytoday #counsellingpsychotherapy #reachoutspeakout #listentoyourself #careforyou #psychotherapyonline #selfsoothing #askforhelp #integrativepsychotherapy #ifstherapy

In this month's blog I present some therapeutic mo

In this month's blog I present some therapeutic models to help us build up our inner Selves in this time of fragmentation in our country.

We should not underestimate the potential for emotional dysregulation when our political leaders are arguing and our towns and cities are being divided and our lives are to be directly impacted.

Listening to our thoughts and feelings and finding appropriate and helpful ways of responding to them, in times of any distress, offers us containment, support and resilience.

Like the forest of trees in this image, may we all learn to stand together. Our internal parts too 💜

#psychotherapy #counselling #innerworldsouterworlds #internalfamilysystems #psychosynthesis #therapytoday #mentalwellbeingmatters #ecotherapyactivities #thetalkingcure #creativewritingcourse #selfawareness #internalworld #mindmattersmost

Having watched David Attenborough's Witness Statem

Having watched David Attenborough's Witness Statement this week, I'm holding Hope, for All of us

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Don't give up

Not yet

You can make a positive difference ... on so many levels

Keep going ... And Go Well

#thisworld #ecotherapy #davidattenborough
#naturenurtures #counsellinglife #psychotherapy #selfcare #planetearthfirst #dontgiveup #keepgoingquotes #care #therapist #nurtureearth #hopeinnature #workoutdoors #keephoping

Don't despair 💜

Don't despair 💜

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