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This retreat will provide you with tools to manage negative thoughts, a space to be you and develop coping strategies for Anxiety and Depression. You will come away understanding your difficulties and have a clear plan to help you move forward with a feeling of newness and peace of mind as well as confidence in yourself and the tools you have gained.
Our participants say they experience connection and inspiration from likeminded people, who have been where they have before and understand. It will help you to not feel so alone with your struggles and will give you solutions for managing your mental health on a daily basis so you can function and feel like your 'old self' again.
All of this happens with the expert help of highly qualified psychotherapists and holistic therapists.
Managing negative thoughts and emotions
We show you how to manage your negative thoughts and develop techniques to overcome feelings of overwhelm and anxiety. Discover how Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Mindfulness can reduce feelings of anxiety and depression. You will come away with evidence based techniques enabling you to feel happier within yourself. This will help you to become more positive in your relationships both with yourself and others. Vanessa also teaches you the brain science behind your thinking so you can understand why you feel the way you do and hence build techniques to support you to be more focused and in the moment. The retreat will bring you peace of mind, you will understand how to be calmer, reduce worry and anxiety and lift your mood.
An environment free of judgement and criticism, a place to be yourself
The retreat is run as a series of therapeutic and experiential workshops where you can understand your anxiety and depression and gain tools to manage your emotions and thoughts in a safe environment. We need to feel safe to heal and this is our absolute intention to provide this for our participants. Lorna and Vanessa have both had over 10 years of experience of running group therapy in mental health settings and are highly skilled in provided a safe therapeutic environment for their clients. You will come away feeling renewed, heard, listened to and validated.
Build your recovery and self care plan
We use creativity as well as lots of self care tools to support you to build a plan for yourself going forward. This is individual for you and will be based on everything you learn over the weekend.
You will come away feeling empowered and ready for the next steps in your life. We will nurture you back to building emotional health and well-being into your life giving you a clear direction for a way forward with the option of ongoing accountability if you wish.
Therapeutic yoga and meditation to support body and spirit
You will experience gentle yoga to provide you with healing for your body, mind and spirit. Yoga is supportive for mental wellbeing and mood balance, your yoga teacher, will demonstrate to you how this can be used on a daily basis to give you positive results.
The sessions are not only relaxing but are restorative in every way. You also incorporates deep relaxation and mindfulness to support you to truly relax, connect with your body and be able to work through difficult emotions to feel healed and restored. In all of the sessions yoga and the workshops we base everything around finding self compassion and self acceptance where you can find peace and a sense of calmness within yourself. As part of the retreat we also provide some sound therapy.
1-1 sessions with a qualified and experienced counsellor
Whilst on the retreat you will have a one to one session with one of our qualified counsellors or psychotherapists. You will be matched to a therapist specific to what your needs are. This is an opportunity to talk through anything you do not feel comfortable to speak about in the group such as traumas, relationship difficulties, shame, hurt, pain management and anything else that you have been unable to share with anyone.
We provide 1-1 sessions prior to the retreat, on request, and for 3 months after the retreat if required.
The sessions can be held face to face (distance allowing), zoom or the telephone dependent on your preference.
Opportunity to connect with likeminded people and build support
A benefit of a retreat is the opportunity to connect with likeminded people. By sharing with others you remove feelings of isolation and loneliness. You come away with a sense of being heard and knowing that you are not alone.
Group sessions are facilitated by Vanessa Wallace and her psychotherapeutic team bringing a family feel to the whole retreat and safety to share and be open about your feelings.
You are not asked to share more than you feel comfortably able to and there is an opportunity for 1-1 session if you prefer to not share in a group.
Workbook and extra gifts
You will be guided through the whole experience with a workbook of your own to take home. We aim to make you feel so special and cared for during this retreat and if you have special requests as to the sessions or support you need we will do our best to accommodate this.
Full body therapeutic massage
During your stay with us you will receive a full body deep tissue massage with our massage therapist Frankie. Frankie has been working with us now for the last 4 retreats and is so easy to talk to as well as being tuned into what the needs of the participants may be. This is optional but is hugely beneficial in aiding recovery from anxiety and depression, releasing tension in the body caused by holding stress for long periods of time.
Arrivals from 9:30am - Day 1
Close 5.30pm Day 3
Our next Anxiety and Depression Recovery retreat is from the 30th August to the 1st September 2024.
We are also offering 2 day 1-1 or small group retreats (maximum 4) throughout July (multiple dates available), please contact for more information.
over 21's only unless opting for 1-1 retreat then 18+ please.
Only a few miles from Northampton train station and located not far from the M1 this venue is easily accessible by public transport or car. There is a good taxi service from Northampton train station.
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