Welcome
Professional support for your heart and mind
Counselling - Mindfulness
Self-discovery
Kia ora
A Warm Welcome
Jane offers a space to be truly listened to with understanding, supporting your heart and mind through whatever challenges you are experiencing. The counselling will support you to calm your system and unlock greater self-discovery, opening the door to transformation and a more meaningful life.
Jane Fowler: Professional support for your heart and Mind
It's not uncommon to feel:
Professional Support for your Heart and Mind
It's not uncommon to feel:
Stuck, lost, overwhelmed or that your potential is failing to unfold.
Your mind is busy and overactive
Highly stressed
Emotional imbalance
Anxiousness / Low in mood
The need for more meaning and purpose in your life
The need for support navigating change
Difficulty adapting to loss or death
You would like
Stuck, lost, overwhelmed or that your potential is failing to unfold.
Your mind is busy and overactive
Highly stressed
Emotional imbalance
Anxiousness / Low in mood
The need for more meaning and purpose in your life
The need for support navigating change
Difficulty adapting to loss or death
You would like to explore and expand your potential
A need for greater peace and clarity
Your challenges may be related to:
Personal issues
Family
Pregnancy and Postnatal
Work
Personal development
About Me: Jane
Professional Support for your Heart and Mind
It's not uncommon to feel:
A passion for people’s wellbeing has shaped my former 25 year career as a Midwife and Educator in Healthcare, Midwifery and Medical Schools.
This vast experience of working closely with so many, alongside studies in Counselling, Mindfulness and Psychotherapy has led to great insights into what it takes to embrace the many challenges of
A passion for people’s wellbeing has shaped my former 25 year career as a Midwife and Educator in Healthcare, Midwifery and Medical Schools.
This vast experience of working closely with so many, alongside studies in Counselling, Mindfulness and Psychotherapy has led to great insights into what it takes to embrace the many challenges of life.
I believe we all have an in-built impulse and wisdom to heal and grow.
With extensive experience as a Health Professional, I offer a therapeutic relationship of trust and support to enable you to have the means to be with, and move through the many milestones life presents.
As a mum of 2 children I have experienced many personal, work and family challenges that make me human, and ever curious about the life-long journey of self-discovery :)
Professional Support for your Heart and Mind
Professional Support for your Heart and Mind
Professional Support for your Heart and Mind
Qualifications
Masters of Counselling
University of Waikato
In Progress
MSc Mindfulness Studies
University of Aberdeen
Diploma in Psychotherapy and Hypnotherapy
Centre Training School, UK.
Advanced Cert. in Cognitive Behavioural Interventions for Anxiety and Depression
University of Central Lancashire
BA (HONS) Midwifery
University of Central Lanca
Qualifications
Masters of Counselling
University of Waikato
In Progress
MSc Mindfulness Studies
University of Aberdeen
Diploma in Psychotherapy and Hypnotherapy
Centre Training School, UK.
Advanced Cert. in Cognitive Behavioural Interventions for Anxiety and Depression
University of Central Lancashire
BA (HONS) Midwifery
University of Central Lancashire
- I am a Student Member of NZAC
- I have Professional Supervision
In being truly listened too, accepted and able to be yourself; gentle professional guidance creates the nourishing ground to support unblocking barriers, to enable change and transformation.
Drawing on your curiosity in self-discovery, with my therapeutic skills, our focus is to increase your self-awareness and self-understanding, to allow greater choices, sense of ease, and freedom in your life.
SUPPORTING YOUR HEART AND MIND: Our sessions
THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP
I aim to listen deeply, with a kind, non-judgemental and accepting welcome. You may truly be yourself, in this safe space, along with any vulnerabilities, and feel at home.
Mindfulness / Relaxation Practices
Some people choose mindfulness or relaxation practices in our session, to help de-stress, ease tension, and settle the mind and body. These practices will help cultivate the ground of self-compassion, connection and resources needed from which to grow greater capacities of mind and heart. Leading to live a freer, fuller life.
Resourcing and re-connection
Strengthening your connections to whatever is wholesomely nourishing and meaningful in your life gives a sense of safety, love and belonging. This is individual and may involve recollections or images of nature, family, music, friendship, comforting words, or activities etc. This step will further anchor you in cultivating the courage to begin integrating your challenges.
Self Compassion / Kindness
Guidance in developing self-compassion forms an integral, foundational part of our sessions. This is to encourage a kind, curious approach to self-discovery. We can be inclusive of all parts of ourselves, regardless if they seem fragmented. In being open to befriending our vulnerabilities, rather than turning away, we can embrace life in all its fullness.
Enhancing Awareness / Seeing Clearly
Our sessions encourage the development of greater awareness and clear seeing of your difficulties. Uncovering and attending to them with support, may be key to unlocking a more peaceful and meaningful life.
These difficulties might be related to your mind, such as:
Negative / anxious thoughts
Unhelpful habit patterns
Or related to the heart, such as:
Overwhelming emotions and feelings
Fear, loss or emptiness
Integrating and Making Sense
In building a strong foundation through gaining greater self-compassion, resources and re-connections with life, your mind and heart may become more expansive . This enables guidance to greater awareness and understanding of your difficulties, and growth in your capacity and ability to embrace them. This guided pathway of self-discovery opens the door to greater choices, balance and transformation in your life.
PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT FOR YOUR HEART AND MIND
What is the Science behind this?
* Due to life’s pressures it is very common for our minds to get caught up, on overdrive, become anxious, overwhelmed and sometimes stuck in fight and flight survival mode.
* Likewise, our minds can also fall into freeze survival mode, when we feel numb and wish to avoid and hide away from life.
* When these things happen our nervous system is unbalanced and we may be operating from the small, primitive, limbic region of our brain. As a result our minds and hearts can become limited, and restricted.
* We can become stuck in unhelpful habit patterns that don’t serve us. This may lead us to experiencing a whole host of perpetual feelings and emotions, for example stress, loss, anger and/or lack of meaning.
* Our sessions seek to bring our minds and hearts back into balance with support through our therapeutic relationship, mindfulness and relaxation practices, drawing on and developing self-compassion, connection and resources.
* From here, greater awareness and understanding is fostered through support, to learn about the nature of your difficulties, and to gently start to embrace them and let them go.
* With a more open and expanded heart and mind, you may respond to your inner and outer world more wisely, and notice improvements in how you relate to yourself, others and to your own life in general.
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
The Summer Day by Mary Oliver.
Your guided pathway of self-discovery
The benefits of being guided by Mindfulness
Mindfulness can be for everybody and essentially encourages a way of being and relating to people and our world with greater understanding, kindness and acceptance. It serves to expand our mind, see the bigger picture, and be inclusive of all the light and darkness in ourselves and the world.
Within mindfulness there is an understanding of the inherent wisdom, compassion and love within present moment awareness. This could be described as the essence where all nature, life and ourselves emerge, and are interconnected. Connecting and resting in present moment awareness often unveils a natural sense of knowing, allowing us to respond to life with greater clarity, wisdom and tenderness.
Often in our culture it is normal for our sense of happiness to be dependent on our mental constructs of expectations, judgements, fears and desires. However a more genuine state of happiness may be found through mindfulness, and drawing upon present moment awareness to bring inner peace, harmony, and a deeper sense of connection to oneself and the world.
Ma te kotahitanga e whai kaha ai tātau. In unity, we have strength.
Mindfulness Course on offer: An introduction to mindfuLness
Introducing Mindfulness brings greater ease, clarity and wisdom into our lives.
Research has proven benefits including:
- Personal wellbeing - regulating your emotions, reducing anxiousness and stress, improving sleep and general fulfilment with life.e
- Physical health - improving your BP, immune function and regulating your nervous system.
- Relationships - enhancing communication, understandings and kindness towards ourselves and others.
Enquires Welcome
Join me and a small group of likeminded people for 4 x classes in Ōmokoroa.
$100 for the 4 x week course.
In exploring and practicing Mindfulness we will cover:
- What is Mindfulness - growing our essential capacity to be more at ease.
- The nature of mind - increasing our awareness and wisdom.
- Meditation - how to meditate and enhance our meditation.
- Self-compassion and kindness - essential to our practice and wellbeing.
- Q&A with Tea.
- Certificate on Completion
- Free Mindfulness App to accompany the course