SpeakEasy Counselling
Create your foundation of wellbeing to help you navigate life’s stressors
SpeakEasy Counselling focuses on establishing your fundamentals first by focusing on four pillars: counselling, balanced diet, sleep hygiene and movement. This ensures that you can create a foundation for consistent progress with your mental health. Stability is key and these principles guide you in prioritising your mental health every single day. Our aim is not to help you avoid your challenges. Our aim is to strengthen your resilience and resolve so that those challenges don’t derail you on your path to success.
4 of Pillars of SpeakEasy
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Coming home to yourself speaks to being present and prioritising time to truly understand yourself, your desires, your goals, fears, values and what you really want out of life. Because it is so often easier said than done, we have created this ti serves as a space where you can explore, vent, unpack and be assured that you're received as you are and have someone to walk beside you, always
Sleep Hygiene
Sleep is closely connected to mental and emotional health and has demonstrated links to depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder and other conditions. Sleep hygiene refers to having a bedroom environment and daily routines that promote consistent, uninterrupted sleep. Prioritising quality of sleep is important for improving productivity and overall quality of life.
Balanced Diet
Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that helps regulate sleep and appetite, mediate moods and inhibit pain. 95% of your serotonin is produced in your gastrointestinal tract which is lined with millions of neurons which contribute to guiding your emotions. Good bacteria that make up your intestinal microbiome also aid in activating neural pathways that travel directly between the gut and the brain
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Aerobic exercise can reduce anxiety by making your brains fight or flight system less reactive. This may help people with anxiety develop a tolerance for symptoms like a rapid heartbeat. Frequent yoga practice can reduce the severity of PTSD to the point that some people no longer meet the criteria for the diagnosis
