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Welcome To Inner Focus
At our Centre in Long Stratton, Norfolk, we provide Child & Adult Counselling and Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy. Please navigate to our counselling pages for more information on what we can offer in this area.
In addition to providing a counselling service we are also a Focusing Training provider and offer courses in Focusing which are certified by the International Focusing Institute and/ or the British Focusing Association.
We also offer workshops in Mindfulness and Focusing to individuals, organisations, workplaces and schools.
For those who are familiar with or would like to learn Focusing as a personal development practice, we offer bespoke Focusing Sessions.
Our Centre has two good-sized rooms, one of which is a counselling and training space and the other is set up as a creative space with art materials, sand tray and other practical resources.
Mindfulness Mornings for Wellbeing Courses
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What is Focusing?
At Inner Focus, when we refer to 'Focusing' we are referring to a therapeutic process discovered and developed in the 1950s and 60s by Eugene Gendlin. Since this time Focusing has been further developed and researched, and continues to be recognised as a valuable and powerful tool for personal development. Within Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy Focusing is recognised through research to correlate with successful therapy outcomes.
A way to move forward
Focusing is a process which can be learnt by anybody: adults or children, for their personal development. It is a way of paying attention to feelings and emotions in the body and listening to them with curiosity and kindness.
In some ways it is similar to mindfulness, and yet it is different. It is a way of connecting and interacting with an embodied knowledge that gives insight into problems and provides a way to move forward.
Improves emotional wellbeing
Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy is an embodied approach talking therapy which comes under the umbrella of Person-Centred Counselling. It is adaptable to the needs of different clients. As such it can stand alone as a talking therapy or it can be facilitated with creative resources such as art materials, sand tray or a body-map.
Whether facilitated within therapy or learnt and practised as a personal development process, Focusing increases self-awareness, self-acceptance, self-esteem and resilience. It improves mental and emotional wellbeing, and shows a way forward from a 'stuck' place.
Focusing is adaptable to each client's needs. As well as being a verbal process it can also be facilitated using creative resources.
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The Benefits of Focusing
- Improves mental health and emotional wellbeing
- Relieves symptoms of depression and anxiety
- Increases self-awareness and self-acceptance
- Releases stuckness/ creativity block
- Enables decision-making, movement and change
- Improves resilience
- Reduces Stress
- Improves self-esteem
Evidence Based
Focusing was discovered and developed from a highly regarded, extensive research study conducted by Carl Rogers and Eugene Gendlin in the 1950s and 60s.
The results showed that when a client naturally did what came to be called ‘Focusing’ the therapy had a successful outcome.
Further research conducted since then has reinforced the correlation between Focusing and successful therapy outcomes.
Highly Accessible
Focusing is not only widely used in counselling and psychotherapy, but is taught across the world to schools, businesses, community groups, spiritual organisations, mental health organisations and individuals.
