Tina Llewellyn, RTC
imagine what true health means to you, and together we’ll make it your reality
WELCOME TO IMAGINE TRUE HEALTH
The place where limiting beliefs are transformed into empowered voices;
Where the true self and the natural world meet;
And those who feel lost are shown their true direction.
ARE YOU COMMITTED TO GROWTH BUT LATELY, SOMETHING FEELS STUCK?
YOU KNOW SOMETHING NEEDS TO CHANGE - YOU WANT IT TO CHANGE - BUT YOU’RE UNSURE WHERE TO TURN.
WHAT YOU DO KNOW IS YOU’RE NOT LOOKING FOR A COOKIE CUTTER APPROACH.
YOU’VE TRIED THE PRESCRIPTIVE, TEXTBOOK THERAPY AND COULDN’T SHAKE THE FEELING THAT SOMETHING WAS LACKING.
OR PERHAPS YOU DIDN’T EVEN START BECAUSE THAT FEELING WAS SO NAGGING.
THERE WAS A DISCONNECT, BUT YOU WEREN’T YET SURE WHY.
YOU’RE LOOKING FOR SCIENCE-BASED SUPPORT, BUT WITH THAT MISSING PIECE . . .
YOU CRAVE SOMETHING HEART-FELT, SOMETHING SOUL-ALIGNED.
YOU’RE READY TO DISCOVER THAT MISSING PIECE, AND TO GET THE RESULTS YOU’VE BEEN WANTING.
DEEP BREATH. YOU’RE IN THE RIGHT PLACE.
Tina lLEWELLYN is a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor, accredited through the Association of Cooperative Counselling Therapists of Canada.
Tina supports women and young adults to find their voice and sense of empowerment however welcomes anyone actively seeking support and who wants to engage in their healing journey.
Tina prioritizes continued learning to ensure she is creating safe space for all people to heal, with special attention to ensure that safety extends to marginalized communities.
Tina has specific experience working with Youth in Care and youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). She believes therapy should not be “one size fits all” and customizes her approach to the individual she is working with.
Where fitting, Tina incorporates F.E.E.L® and Intentional Creativity® into sessions to offer alternative methods of processing and healing.
Her mission is to create a safe place where one can explore their inner and outer world without judgment; Where each individual can grow and learn to live a life of abundance mentally, physically and emotionally.
It is a space where each individual can imagine what true health means for them, and make it a reality.
WHAT’S SHAPING YOUR REALITY?
“Neuroplasticity is the ability of the brain to form and reorganize synaptic connections, especially in response to learning or experience or following injury”
Whether that experience or injury is physical, mental or emotional the body forms a neurological response to the event.
In cases where a person doesn’t have the time or tools to process that event or injury in a supportive way, maladaptive neural pathways can be formed.
The kind that create a jarring feeling when a similar circumstance arises, or perhaps hold you back from trying something new because of a seemingly irrational fear something might go wrong . . .
Your fear is not irrational. It is rooted in that initial experience or injury.
Your body remembers because it wants to help you; And, sometimes, you reach a point where your conscious self realizes that your body’s way of remembering is no longer helpful.
You’re ready for change, for a new found freedom.
Tina Llewellyn, RTC combines traditional aspects of counseling with Facilitated Equine Experiential Learning and Intentional Creativity. But why?
Nervous System: Did you know your body’s nervous system is split in two parts - the sympathetic and the parasympathetic nervous system? The sympathetic nervous system is your “fight-or-flight” response, it’s the system that jumps into gear when you need protecting or to make a split second decision for safety in response to a thread (or, what your nervous system perceives to be a thread). Your parasympathetic nervous system is your “rest-and-digest” system, it is calming and grounding (think slow heart rate, relaxed, happy digestion).
Mirror Neurons: Did you know that your heart contains things called “mirror neurons”? These are said to be linked to empathy, and a person’s ability to understand what those around them are experiencing. Horses are said to have a very advanced mirror neuron system which makes them exceptional as agents in healing, and reflecting patterns back to us. F.E.E.L. is based in this principle and works with horses to illuminate patterns being held in the nervous system.
How do these things relate to one another? The heart sends signals to the brain via your vagus nerve. When the brain interprets these signals, it creates neural pathways or “memories” in your nervous system from the experience or injury. Your body is phenomenal at pattern recognition and it uses these memories to help you respond to similar events in future, based on your experiences
The difficulty is that sometimes a new experience reminds our body - and nervous system - of something that was harmful or dangerous in the past, even if the new experience isn’t.
Our nervous system doesn’t always know on its own how to unpack this. It gets stuck in old patterns because it wants to protect us.
When this happens, our body and nervous system are living in the sympathetic “fight-or-flight” response. This is a response of reactivity, and of our limbic brain.
To begin to heal and be able to make more calm decisions, the pre-frontal cortex must be invited into the equation. This is the part of brain responsible for rationality, decision making, and also emotional processing.
F.E.E.L. and Intentional Creativity invite you to ground in the world outside you while safely processing your limbic response and stimulating your pre-frontal cortex.
Horses naturally have a slower heart rate than humans and so as your heart - and mirror neurons - connect to your partnered horse, your heart can begin to slow. When it does this while processing memories that previously triggered a fight-or-flight response, your heart begins to tell your brain it is okay, it is safe. You are invited into a sense of calm, and new pathways begin to form. By detaching from the initial reactivity of a situation, you create space to invite the prefrontal cortex, your intuition and grounding into the equation.
Similarly, Intentional Creativity grounds you in the physical world as you connect pen to paper (or paint to canvas) while revisiting memories that may be associated with fear or pain. Witnessing yourself creating while revisiting these memories allows a healthy level of detachment, not shutting the memory away but allowing your brain and nervous system to recognize that this memory is not your whole reality. It creates space for new ways of understanding.
ARE YOU READY TO THROW AWAY THE COOKIE CUTTER THERAPY AND STEP INTO A CUSTOMIZED CONTAINER THAT WORKS FOR YOU?
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