Flourish Counselling & Psychotherapy

What I offer.

  • Counselling can be short or long term, in-room or remote. It can help you feel heard and understood, and provide an opportunity for you to make sense of yourself within your world, and offer potential towards insights and self-compassion to enable change. Psychotherapy can also help you (as above) however we may explore emotions, patterns, behaviour, identity, or areas of inequality a little more deeply. This is typically longer term, and affords space and time to look at core wounds and influences. Both offer the chance to get closer to yourself.  

    50 mins | £50 | Get started

  • There can be times when difficulties emerge within your relationship(s). This can be problematic for you and those close to you, as well as significantly impact other aspects of your life. You may want to enhance your relationship, to improve the quality of connection, and help build awareness so that you can more consciously make choices and communicate.  Sometimes you may be looking to end a relationship, or an ending may emerge. Clear communication throughout this process can be helpful. On the whole counselling with another can be a very healthy process.

    60, or 90 mins |  £65 - 100 | Get started

  • You don’t have to know how to draw to be creative, rather it is about expression and process. We can use sand, watercolour, and pencil; alternatively, something ‘other’ that you use creatively. The principles are similar to my talk sessions; as such I won’t direct, nor interpret what you do; although I will likely respond to your actions, emotions and words. Ultimately, I facilitate your feelings and the interpretations of yourself. See - Creative

    50 mins |  £50 | Get started

  • Supervision is arranged as a regular meeting between supervisee and supervisor to aid the efficacy of the counsellor-client relationship with the client at the centre. It is a supportive and collaborative process that aims to develop knowledge, and competence to work as safely and effectively as possible. In alignment with the BACP ethical framework and lawful practice, concerns and responsibilities are afforded exploration, and issues and dilemmas addressed.

    1.5 hrs or 2hrs |  £75 or £100 | Get started

  • Walk and talk, or meeting at an agreed outdoor location within nature, offers numerous proposed benefits. These include but aren’t limited to: A reduction in formality and less pressure to ‘find the words’. An aid to wellbeing through natures green and blue stimuli. Ample metaphorical opportunity, offering interception on your experience. Conversely, stimuli outside of your emotions which can aid regulation. In other words there is a grounded quality of being outdoors, plus instinctual regulated breathing can be calming. The duration of walk and talk is roughly estimated, as sometimes we may meet a wild animal (hopefully friendly) get stuck in mud, or take a detour.  See -  Walk & Talk

    45 - 55 mins | £50 | Get started

Welcome. I’m Lindsey, or Linz. I offer Counselling & Psychotherapy in Hamble & the surrounding area.

I aim to provide a relationship that feels safe and accepting whereby you can identify and explore your narrative, including your thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and concerns; that may direct, criticise, and intrude upon, or block access to your deeper truth and authentic living. As such, this is a collaborate and inquisitive journey.

There are (of course) trends, patterns and theories, yet you are unique, and so, I strive to provide a space that creatively enables you to hear and connect with yourself more fully, and perhaps discover more of your story and uncover your wisdom.

I won’t push you into being something you are not, nor will I expect you to be a carbon copy of an adjusted or normal, rather I’ll work to be receptive to what you may explore and become; this is supported by an ethos of trust, respect, and a knowledge that deep down you know what’s best. Including when it’s not right to work together, as another therapist or approach maybe more fitting.

Ultimately, I aim to bring myself compassionately and honestly into the therapeutic relationship, and strive to meet you with genuine openness and warmth.

I accept Bupa and WPA - please contact for further information on insurance/EAP.

I accept Bupa and WPA - please contact for further information on insurance/EAP.

This process of the good life is not, I am convinced, a life for the faint-hearted. It involves the stretching and growing of becoming more and more of one’s potentialities. It involves the courage to be. It means launching oneself fully into the stream of life.
— Carl Rogers

Hamble in Person & Remote

The meeting room is located on the first floor of Hamble Memorial Hall. Using the //what three words location app (juggles.spectacle.drive) Download the free what3words travelling via bus, number 15. Hamble also has a train station - do allow at least 30-mins walk to the memorial hall.

Hamble Memorial Hall
2 High Street
Hamble, SO31 4JE

Access

The premises I use offers a lift, disabled toilets, and disabled parking. The meeting room has a calm décor and is nut and food free.  I have living plants that can be removed upon request.  If working individually or in a couple/group we can meet in the accessible, bright, yet cosy counselling room in central Hamble, or connect via Zoom – address or link available on contact. 

Alternatively, for individual counselling we can Walk & Talk. The setting is amongst local ancient woodland, river and shingle beach. If you have restricted mobility, we can meet at an agreed outdoor location.

About Me

My journey into the profession began following volunteering in numerous and diverse helping fields, before stumbling across a local training course, whereby I met the works of Dr Carl Rogers, see - the Person-Centred approach. Thereon I pursued a transformative heart and soul fulfilling path into a new way of existing. This training aided my understanding of self, others and (inadvertently) the energetic, connected, complex world we live and belong within. Although not smooth, nor easy, I felt transformative shifts in awareness, that ultimately have led to greater connection. This means that my personality and profession are pretty much inextricably linked, as it’s hard to not be authentic.

I know from my own experience that it’s not always easy to connect to the inner world. In my own past this ‘disconnect’ has manifested as OCD, depression, anxiety, chaos, unhealthy habits, insomnia, numbness and lethargy. Therefore, I understand that you may have serious doubts in yourself and world. Yet it is more than likely pressures and influences both past and present contributed to a disconnect and distrust in yourself. This is often due to living according to, or in rebellion of the expectations and viewpoints of others. Behaviour may have developed in order to cope, find safety, or maintain a status quo. This may feel restrictive, unlike your self, or ‘in the least’ not quite accurate.

Working with a therapist, separate to family and friends can offer a freedom and safely to discover deeper messages, communicated by feelings, thoughts and behaviour; as well, make contrasting internal dialogue known and more understood. This also, includes awareness of yourself in relation to others and society, thus a shift towards a more realistic reassignment of responsibility.

Further Info

I have been in private practice and a teacher in counselling since 2017, my venture into counselling training began in 2011 on a listening skills course, followed by core Diploma training, and BA (Hons).  I am presently influenced by creative practice, see -attachment theory, neuroscience, childhood and single incident trauma, & awareness of the nervous system. Ecotherapy, including Walk and Talk, couples work and clinical supervision. I am also trained meditation and grounding with Zenways. I am also a qualified teacher working on a local DipHE training programme.  If of interest: I am cis female of mixed British and North African heritage.

Qualifications

BA (Hons) Person-Centred Counselling & Psychotherapy (1st Class) Middlesex University

BA (Hons) Business Admin

BACP Accreditation (2020)

 Cert- Counselling Supervision

 Cert - Coupes Counselling

 Cert - Ecotherapy - Tariki Trust

Diploma - Education & Training

EMDR - EMDR-London

Grounding and meditation - Zen Ways

Polyvagal Yoga - Ariel Schwartz