Sophrology for You
Sophrology is a personalised stress management solution that uses a recognised structure to help mind-body healing so that you can feel better. It can be accessed via one-to-one sessions or group sessions, both online or in-person.
At The Stress Solution Sophrology we offer a number of different programmes to help you, along with providing Individual one-to-one sessions and regular group sessions.
How Sophrology can help you!
Wellbeing
Treating therapeutic issues such as anxiety, depression and insomnia
Preparing for future events
Self development
Wellbeing
Therapeutic Issues
Like most things in life, to maintain a good level of wellbeing, we need to put a little effort in. Sophrology can help us to maintain the 5 pillars of good health: Diet, Movement, Sleep, Relaxation, and Social Interaction.
By developing our awareness and intuition, we can better know what is right for our wellbeing in terms of these pillars, improving our levels of relaxation, sleep, relationship with ourselves, other people, and our behaviours.
Sophrology can be used to help people who have developed therapeutic issues such as anxiety, depression, and insomnia. Some of the most common reasons why people get in touch with us are:
Anxiety, work stress, insomnia, depression and burn out. If you have another condition that is not listed, please get in touch with us and explore how Sophrology might be able to help you.
Preparing for Future Events
Self-development
Sophrology is used extensively to help prepare for future events such as an exam, interview, sports competition, giving a speech, preparing for surgery, going to the dentist, getting married, and pregnancy and labour, for example.
Perhaps you have an event coming up and would like to feel more confident in the outcome or you would like to develop your confidence in general to be able to feel more able to meet future events and uncertainty with great ease, and a sense of calm. Then Sophrology may be able to help you.
Sophrology has long been used as a personal self-development method to help to improve our levels of confidence, self-esteem, connect with our purpose, and to help empower us.
It does this by connecting us more deeply with our values and capacities, those qualities, and strengths that we have, so that we can start to uncover and move towards our potential, removing the blocks along the way. Some of the self-development areas that are often worked on include: Imposter syndrome, building confidence, developing self-esteem, and lack of purpose.
The way we see ourselves, and our world, changes
when we use Sophrology
“Sophrology helps to harmoniously develop our physical and psychological abilities and our inner resources, improve our performance, our imagination and creativity, focus and memories. It improves sleep, helps overcome our fears and find our balance and joy in life. It uses imagination as a tool of change and evolution.“
Michele Freud – a famous French Sophrologist,
Taken from ‘The Sophrology Method’ a great book by my teacher Florence Parot.
If you feel intrigued and would like to know more how Sophrology could help you then please give me a call on 07884 101164 or email carla@thestresssolutionsophrology.co.uk for a FREE 20 minute telephone or on-line consultation to see if Sophrology can help you.
Sophrology can help us in so many different ways
Wellbeing
What could you do if you had full health and vitality?
Self Belief
How would your life be in you believed in yourself?
Confidence
If you had all the confidence in the world how would you feel?
Self Development
What would life be like if you determined your own evolution?
Our Programmes
6-Week Anxiety Reduction Programme
On this group programme you will be given tools & techniques to help you to reduce and manage your anxiety to enable you feel better and develop a greater sense of wellbeing. Sophrology has been used for many years to help people reduce anxiety, improve confidence, and feel better. The 6-Week Anxiety Reduction Programme is delivered online with a small group of like-minded people. The sessions are one hour.
6-Week 'Sleep Better, Have a Better Day' Programme
The ‘Sleep better, have a better day’ programme gives you the foundational tools, techniques and tips to help you improve your sleep. Whether you have trouble falling to sleep, or you wake up during the night or wake too early, this programme could help you. One of it’s aims is to educate on the science of sleep, sleep hygiene, and environment, along with giving you the Sophrology exercises, tools and techniques to help you release stress and tension, helping you to be able to deeply relax ready for sleep. The sleep programme is delivered online with a small group of other like-minded people. The sessions are one hour.
8-Week Confidence Creation Programme
Often there are times in our life when we would like to feel more confident, whether we are preparing for a future event such as an interview, exam, performance, public speaking, surgery, sports competition, pregnancy & labour etc. It can help to prepare for that event so that we can feel at our best and perform as we would like to to feel prepared for the event and succeed. Or we might just want to feel a little bit more confident about ourselves and our life in general. If so this programme could be for you. Over the 8 week period I will help you to take the steps towards that which you would like to achieve, giving you the tools and techniques to help you feel more confident. The confidence programme is delivered online with a small group of like-minded people. The sessions are one and a half hours.
Being Me Retreats for Women
“Sophrology can help you let go of all the old ideas you have of yourself, to free you to become who you naturally are and who you were meant to be. It can enable you to meet your potential, be at your best and live your best, by being you!” Carla Forth, Sophrologist
The ‘Being Me’ in-person retreats offer a chance to come together with other like-minded women to gently and yet powerfully, transform, so that we can begin to live life as ourselves, totally and unapologetically.
Feeling like we can relax and be ourselves with others, and even with ourselves, can often feel a million miles away. For me that is what being authentic is, the ability to be totally relaxed within myself to be who I am with most people and most situations. For me it has taken a lot of work to get to this point, and most of the work was in letting go of how I thought I should be, the people pleasing and other behaviours I had adopted in childhood.
For more information for the next ‘Being Me’ retreat please see the events page or contact Carla on 07884 1011164 or email carla@thestresssolutionsophrology.co.uk.
Individual Sessions
Individual Sessions
Online (Zoom) or in Person (Leeds, Yorkshire)
It can be very useful to have one-to-one sessions with a fully trained and qualified Sophrology Practitioner to address specific concerns you may have, whether physical or emotional, in a therapeutic context, to help treat, alleviate, and manage symptoms. A one-to-one session can also be a useful format to help prepare for a particular event, whether that is an exam, a performance, getting married, public speaking, a sports competition, or pregnancy and labour for example.
You will be seen and heard, in a safe, supportive and confidential space to explore what is important to you, to help empower you to address and resolve the issue(s), and to improve your self-confidence and resilience. Sessions are held either on Zoom or in person at The Tower Clinic, Cookridge, Leeds or Wetherby. Please see the ‘Working together’ page for appointments at the clinics. The sessions are highly tailored to meet your personal needs and situation and will follow on from an initial free 20-minute telephone or online chat for you to find out more.
Or you may want to attend ‘The Wellbeing Club’ our fortnightly online Sophrology class. Find out more on the Events page. Alternatively please give me a call on 07884 101164 or email carla@thestresssolutionsophrology.co.uk
Individual online sessions cost £60 and last one hour. Payment is required on booking your appointment. A full refund can be given with 72 hours notice. Please see our terms and conditions for more information.
Preparing for an individual session:
It can be very useful to have a think about what you might like to get out from the session before hand. Whether you are currently confronted with a health issue or you would like to use Sophrology as a self-development tool, it is a good idea to give some thought to what you would like to change or transform.
- Wear comfortable everyday clothes.
- Have some water to hand.
- Bring a pad and pen to write your phenodescription (what you have experienced during the session) and any insights you have gained, at the end of the session.
- Block out the time in your calendar and make sure you are not going to be disturbed, if the session is online.
- It can be useful if you aren’t either too hungry or overfull if you have just eaten prior to the session, so that you can really relax.
Group Sessions
Group Sessions
Online (Zoom) or in Person (Leeds, Yorkshire)
A group session will usually be focused on improving general wellbeing, learning to relax, managing stressors better, improving resilience, etc, like the programmes above. We may look at a specific topic such as anxiety, sleep, depression, and confidence, for example. A group session is not tailored to an individual’s needs as such but is catered towards the wider needs of a larger group.
One of the benefits of a group session is that a group energy is formed. Like-minded people come together, learn, and possibly exchange how they experience Sophrology. When attending more than one session, we discuss what improvements have been felt and how attendees use their learning in their everyday life.
Sessions are held either on Zoom or in person at The Tower Clinic, Cookridge, Leeds. Our fortnightly online wellbeing class, called ‘The Wellbeing Club’ will also give you a taste of Sophrology and how it can help you develop a wellbeing way of life. Find out more on the Events page.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many are in a group session?
Group sessions can vary in size depending on the aims, duration and can be anything from 1 hour to a half or full-day workshop or over a period of time with our 6 or programmes that run over a number of weeks.. There is time at the end of a group session for people to share their experiences if they wish to. This is not compulsory.
How do I access a group session?
Group sessions are currently held on Zoom. Zoom is a straightforward and intuitive online webinar facility that allows you to get online in the comfort of your own home and experience the benefits of Sophrology from your sofa. It is free and easy to download from your computer, laptop, tablet or phone.
How much does a group session cost?
Group sessions vary but can start per person from as little as £8 for a session at The Wellbeing Club.
Contact Carla
If you would like to understand a little bit more before committing to one of the group sessions, please don’t hesitate to call Carla on 07884 101164 or email carla@thestresssolutionsophrology.co.uk
To take a deeper dive into what Sophrology is, visit the What is Sophrology page or get in touch with any questions.
To book a Session
Please contact Carla on 07884 101164, email carla@thestresssolutionsophrology.co.uk or use the Contact Us form.
