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GESTALT COUNSELLING

MINDFULNESS ENERGY HEALING

Honouring liminal spaces, holding creative rituals to weave containers for new narratives, identities and imaginings to dwell. Mending soul skins, torn, thinned, fraying.

Celebrating This Life and all the ways we long to be to ourselves and each other beyond the edges and shadows of words and worldly actions; courageous and mysterious.

Holding a deep tentativeness in being, a sense of erasure and subtraction from Ghanian, Jamaican and English narratives, particularly living in rural Lincolnshire and being raised in an all white step- family, early on, I found grounding, solace and communion in the natural world of non binary landscapes, waters, animals and art which inform my writing, creative and therapeutic offering.

Georgina Parke, counsellor - mindfulness teacher - writer

 

stitch over

stitch under

weave weft

through warp

oh mother who weaves

the stateless

the outcast

the dislocated

through liminal spaces


back to

                                                                         beautiful matter

 

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— Georgina Parke

“one must still have chaos to give birth to a dancing star” Nietzsche

I draw upon a range of therapeutic approaches gathered over the past 20 years from different trainings and lived experiences, to offer a carefully blended approach for your needs.

Developing a therapeutic alliance with you based on mutual trust, curiosity and willingness is essential for successful therapy. Always I have in mind, co-weaving with you a container for gestating joy, truth telling and healing that is nourished and supported by a healthy community. We are meant to matter to each other, our communities and environments.

Qualifications and Practice

Gestalt Counselling- London Gestalt Centre

Systemic & Family Constellations- Centre for Systemic Constellations, Ancestral Constellations & Barbara Morgan

Mindfulness Teacher - International training founded by Buddha Wallah, Christopher Titmuss

Therapeutic Touch -Brennan Healing Science, Miami & ReikiL1-L3 atunements

Yoga Teacher-School of Kundalini Yoga, Reading

Continuing Professional Development

Challenges in Racism in Therapeutic Practice, Dr Isha McKenzie -Mavinga

Grief & Community Rituals- Malidoma Some & Azul Valerie-Thome

Embodied Practices for healing & resilience for black women- Resmaa Menakem & Erin Trent-Johnson

Truth Healing & Action: Anti- Racism Training Series facilitated by Community Equity Partners

Apprenticeship with Sorrow: Community Ritual & Sacred Grief Work of Francis Weller

Equine Facilitated Therapy - IFEEL. Kent

Infant Movement & Embodied Anatomy, Institute of Integrative Body Movement Therapy, London

Community Organising - National Academy of Community Organising

Poetry Weekends- David Whyte

Exploring Empathy & Empathy Collision- London Centre for Non Violent communication

I have broad experience supporting people through a variety of organisations including:

Off the Fence, (supporting rough sleepers)

Citizens Advice Bureau (advising on welfare and employment issues)

EHRAC (drafting human rights cases for the European Court of Human Rights)

Memberships

MBACP 394951

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