Set yourself free by embracing Peaceful Moments therapy

by County Lifestyle and Leisure Magazine

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If the COVID 119 pandemic taught anyone anything, it was surely the need for people to prioritise their own mental health! Stress, anxiety and low self-esteem can all cause or aggravate physical health problems, from insomnia to chronic pain, and create further difficulties in relationships, family life, careers and many other spheres of activity. Peaceful Moments Therapy is a professional counselling and psychotherapy service aimed at helping people to heal themselves and find total wellbeing. It provides an oasis of calm and a path through what can seem like almost insurmountable problems to a safe, nurturing space within where everything is able to be faced, handled and overcome.

The therapist behind Peaceful Moments is Laura Baluta, a psychologist and psychotherapist who is widely experienced in working with adults, teenagers, children, couples and families. As a Master of Integrative Psychotherapy, Laura can call on great expertise across a range of highly respected counselling forms such as Cognitive Behavioural, Psychodynamic and Humanistic, blending them according to each individual case. This helps her clients to access blocked feelings, understand causes and gain insight into their own dilemmas and resources, enabling solutions to be found.

Laura’s clients make contact for numerous reasons, sometimes depression, sleeplessness, bereavement, money troubles, divorce, abuse or other traumatic events in their lives. Some experience eating disorders, a specialism in which Laura recently earned a diploma.

“Our therapy is all about giving people a safe place in which to explore and reflect on whatever is in their head,” she says. “It is very powerful and freeing for someone to be able to express their feelings without being judged.”

Laura also practices the energy healing therapy Reiki – Japanese for Universal Life Force – which aids peace, relaxation and a sense of spiritual wellbeing. Reiki sessions may be given as stand-alone treatments or provided before or after psychotherapy sessions, as wished.

During May, Laura will be giving public workshops as part of Worcestershire County Council’s Wellbeing Month to help raise people’s awareness of mental health.

Office 6, Sansome Lodge, Worcester, WR1 1LH www.peacefulmomentstherapy.com

01905969069

People who take up treatments with Bridge to Beauty emerge feeling more beautiful on the inside as well as the outside. That’s all part of the service with this exceptional business where beauty and alternative therapy choices range from tanning and facials to full body massage to help people to relax, rebalance and enjoy an extra glow of confidence from within.

Owner Lorna Bridge became fascinated with make-up as a young girl. intrigued by the cutting edge techniques of Hollywood to transform people’s appearance to fulfil the drama of the plot. As she grew older, though, she realised that the skin deep approach to beauty was very limited and that true beauty comes from a deeper level of the psyche, starting with feeling comfortable and happy within your own skin.

“Although my initial love was theatrical make-up, I trained as a therapist to make people feel better rather than simply look better,” says Lorna. “Sometimes people come in with aching muscles or dull headaches and after a half hour treatment they leave feeling good and they look great too, because that pain has lifted. I love the fact that people go out of here feeling happier, perhaps pain-free and just better able to go about dealing with their place in the world. It can be like a mini-break for them!

Based within a salon in Studley, Warwickshire, all Bridge to Beauty treatments begin with a preliminary client consultation to ensure that treatments suit their aims and needs. Pampering possibilities currently include Indian head massage, hot stone massage, spray tanning and facials which cleanse, tone and moisturise. Self-employed Lorna continually updates her skills and adds new treatments, with latest including waxing, brow lamination and lash and brow tinting.

Lorna says: “I welcome everybody, all ages, all genders and especially people who are struggling with their emotional health. We want everyone to leave here feeling relaxed and uplifted.”

Bridge to Beauty, 39 Alcester Road, Studley, B80 7NJ

T 07870 481333

E bridgetobeauty2022@gmail.com www.bridgetobeauty.co.uk Facebook @ Bridge to Beauty

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