Counsellors, Therapists and Psychotherapists
Emma Avhede - Massage Therapist
Emma Avhede is a therapist who also has a background in Human Resources (HR). She is the owner of Hälsa Workplace Wellbeing – a Company which provides therapies and stress management solutions to businesses.
Emma runs a weekly clinic at Cygnet Hospital Harrogate providing a variety of holistic therapies to our patients. The treatments help patients to focus on their general wellbeing as well as the various physical and psychological benefits these sessions provide. Emma also supports them with breathing and general relaxation techniques.
Current treatments provided are:
- Swedish Massage – body
- Leg and foot massage
- Arm and hand massage
- Indian Head Massage
- Seated Acupressure Massage
In addition to her corporate work, Emma also sees a number of individual clients. To find out more information about Emma please visit her website, www.halsa-workplacewellbeing.com.
Julie Procter - Art Psychotherapist
Julie Procter is a qualified Art Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor and Cognitive Behavioural Therapist (CBT).
Julie runs Expressive Therapy classes at Cygnet Hospital Harrogate. Expressive Therapy is a type of therapy that uses art materials to help express and communicate thoughts and feelings. The classes are run as group sessions and typically last for about 2 hours. People do not have to be good at art to take part.
Expressive Therapy helps to unravel emotional chaos and identify problematic core issues. Those who take part will develop a better emotional understanding and learn coping strategies. Julie says that, "it’s easier to understand feelings, when you can ‘see’ how you feel."
Vivien Sabel - Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor
Vivien is a former CEO of a national charity, and an organisational and personal consultant, with a wealth of experience working across sectors, primarily in the field of mental health, deafness and disability.
Vivien originally trained and worked as a British Sign Language (BSL) Interpreter and qualified with an undergraduate degree in Deaf Studies and Sign Language Interpreting (University of Bristol 1996). She retrained and qualified in Psychodynamic Counselling (Goldsmiths – University of London 2004).
Vivien's approach to her work is unique. She considers herself to be an expert in the field of non-verbal communication and body language. She often utilises these highly tuned skills to address the incongruence between spoken language and language of the body. Vivien has recently undertaken a piece of qualitative research into Post Natal Depression and is currently writing a book about Infant Communication. For further information regarding Vivien please see www.viviensabel.com.
Indra Singh - Yoga Therapist
Indra has studied Yoga for over 25years, it has been a natural part of her life as it has always been part of her heritage. Indra has taught a variety of people from all walks of life since 2001.
Indra enjoys the challenge that can come with working with different people in society and different age groups because it's then you really see Yoga work to it's true potential.
Indra's classes are always varied depending on the needs of the group or individual but they will always include some of the more important aspects of Yoga:
- breathing/pranayama
- movement/asana
- relaxation/meditation
All these combined help in restoring each individual with a total sense of wellbeing. When Indra teaches she makes sure that all the aspects of the class can be adapted to everyday life so that it makes it easy to practice at home. For further information please see Indra's website www.indrasinghyoga.com.