Alternative Therapies

What is Reiki?
Reiki is a system of healing originating in Japan. The word ‘reiki’ means ‘universal life energy’, the vital energy around and within all living things.

How does it work?
Japanese reiki is a form of touch therapy in which the therapist uses a both the laying on of hands and distant healing techniques. The therapists treats those parts of the body he or she senses are emitting weak energy, by laying his or her hands close to the site of the problem, this enables energy to start to flow through the therapist’s hands to the patient.

What is Reflexology?
Reflexology (sometimes called zone therapy) is a therapy in which the nerve endings primarily in the feet are stimulated by specific massage techniques to effect changes in another part of the body and thereby create health and help overcome disease.
Although there is scriptural evidence to suggest that reflexology was being practised as far back as ancient Egypt, the science of reflexology used today was founded by Dr William Fitzgerald, an American ear nose and throat surgeon. He noticed that pressure on specific areas of the body produced a anaesthetising effect on a related area. Developing his theory, he divided the body into ten equal zones which ended in the feet and hands.

 What is Counselling?
As the pressures of modern life become ever greater, increasing numbers of people are turning to counsellors for support.
Counselling is a contractual arrangement whereby a counsellor meets a client in privacy and confidence to explore dissatisfactions or difficulties, which the client is experiencing. No one can be `sent’ for Counselling, it must be the choice of the client, for a reluctant client will rarely get the best out of his or her Counselling.
By listening attentively the counsellor begins to perceive the difficulties from the client’s point of view helping the client to see his or her problem from a range of different perspectives. Counselling is a way of facilitating choice or change and of reducing confusion. "I don’t know which way to turn……what to do……what’s the matter with me" are frequent opening remarks.
During counselling sessions the client is encouraged to explore various aspects of his or her life and feelings, talking freely and openly in a way that is rarely possible with friends or family - to a person outside of the situation who neither judges nor takes control of the decision making process. Bottled up feelings such as anger, anxiety, grief and embarrassment can become very intense and an opportunity to express these during counselling can make them easier to understand. The counsellor will encourage the expression of thoughts and feelings and as a result of his or her training will be able to accept whatever the material the clients brings without becoming personally burdened.