JoRae
Wellbeing Consultancy
I am an experienced course, workshop & session facilitator of over 20 years.
Qualified:
- Neuro-Linguistic Practitioner
- Hypnotherapist
- Cognitive Behaviour Health & Wellbeing Coach
Extensive Training & Knowledge in:
- Women’s Hormonal Health & Wellbeing:
- Menstrual
- Peri & Menopause
Certified:
- Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD
- Mindfulness Coach
- Art Therapy Coach
Prior to this, I worked for more than a decade in NHS Mental Health.
I have experienced the efficacy of all of these techniques either personally or in my client practice.
As we all resonate with different techniques, some of these tools will have a greater positive impact than others and this will influence the skill set that I offer to each individual or group.
Both in a group and 1-2-1 settings, I employ a unique, multi-disciplinary approach.
I’m passionate about embodied talking therapy.
My passion for this type of transformational work stems from my own experience from low mental health & maladaptive behaviours to the current contentment I now enjoy.
Through recognising the courage and discipline needed to achieve desired results, I can testify to how natural those techniques can become and the peace and fulfilment to be enjoyed.
Tailored one-off sessions
These sessions aim to raise awareness of mental health wellbeing.
Positive Minds:
Stress, anxiety and depression are all symptoms informing us that we need to find different approaches to manage daily living. Discover physical and psychological techniques to help deal with those symptoms and explore positive changes that can alter the way we feel and respond to life’s ups and downs.
Mindfulness
Explore how mindfulness techniques can improve your health & wellbeing and how easily these activities can fit into your daily life.
Female Hormonal Awareness in the Workplace:
- Menopause Awareness for Staff & / or Managers
- Menstrual Awareness for Staff & / or Managers
Tailored courses
A series of sessions (choose from 6-12 x 2 hourly sessions) to raise awareness of mental health wellbeing.
NEW – Breaking Free:
This course aims to help you identify the impact of past trauma on your here & now ~ without having to explore the event itself.
- We will also examine stuck points and rules in your current thinking patterns
- How to replace these behaviours using helpful techniques
- We look at ways to reduce the impact of negative triggers
- How to challenge negative thinking
- Developing new & routine self-regulation tools.
Positive Minds:
Stress, anxiety and depression are all symptoms informing us that we need to find different approaches to manage daily living. Discover physical and psychological techniques to help deal with those symptoms and explore positive changes that can alter the way we feel and respond to life’s ups and downs.
Mindfulness:
Improve your health & wellbeing through gentle techniques & concepts. This is a calm, still space for you to explore numerous different Mindful applications which you can easily fit into daily life.
Being Free:
A course specifically for women to rebuild confidence & self-esteem in a safe space to explore thoughts and feelings.
- Be free from past experiences invading your present wellbeing.
- Explore positive solutions to life’s difficulties, feel empowered & take back ownership of YOUR life!
- Build your confidence, challenge feelings of anxiety, discover the importance of support systems & positive behaviours.
Female hormonal awareness in the Workplace
Menopause & Menstrual Awareness for Staff & Managers
Tailored and run as separate focussed sessions on Menopause or Menstrual Awareness for Staff or Managers. Participants will be better informed on how women can harness their hormonal cycles in menstruation, peri menopause & menopause, and how workplace attitudes and procedures can support them. By exploring the impact of the female endocrine system on physical, emotional and psychological responses, this course aims to change current attitudes towards this entirely natural process.
Testimonials
My clients say it best themselves.
Inspirational
“I’ve found the sessions really useful and very interesting. I feel that you’ve given me so many valuable tools. You have inspired and enthused me, and I feel uplifted already, and when I don’t, I just use one of your techniques and it genuinely helps.”
Absolutely wonderful
Social Prescriber feeding back: I’ve just spoken to Anon who attended your four-week taster sessions at our GP Practice, and she couldn’t speak highly enough of the course and yourself. She said you are ” absolutely wonderful” and that “It was the best thing that has ever happened to me.”
Energetic and Empathetic
You present an amazing feel-good ambiance that’s fabulously energising and reassuring. It’s been beneficial for me to learn about mental health – the connection between my mind, body, self-talk & my spirit and the power of positive affirmation. Thanks to you I’ve learnt some good coping mechanisms and an understanding to allow me to make the changes I need to address my anxiety and depression.
Empowering
“Having experienced a taste of Jo Rae’s individual style on a retreat, I was keen to book onto one of her 1-day workshops. It was a highly informative day. Jo delivers her information in a user-friendly way that everyone can relate to. She is honest, empathetic, lively and fun – nothing shocks her! She made everything understandable and acceptable and left you feeling positive and empowered about this stage in a woman’s life. I would highly recommend her workshops.”
Publications
Talk the Talk
Interview in the Waitrose Health magazine New Year 2021
by Sophie Wilkinson
Challenging the inner critic without the usual reassurance we find through the people around us during a time of social distancing.
“The inner critic formed in prehistoric humans and its entire precept was ‘don’t get killed’. It’s the part of your brain that deals with the fight-or-flight response.”
To read the full article on Page 83, visit Waitrose.com archive to find both digital and physical copies.
Learning how to relax
The Nourished Woman Magazine – Sept 2018
“On a daily basis we are living consistently in the eye of the stress vortex. ‘I’ve too much to do’, we complain; stabbing our phones to immediately answer yet another What’s App, FB, Instagram, Messenger, email, text, phone call, whilst of course multi-tasking our shopping/ filling at a petrol station, dropping X off at X place, cooking, working, commuting etc etc….
“Time to STOP, BREATH and try out some simple tools that are quick, realistic, and manageable to help you holistically relax and which can be fitted into our daily busy lives.”
To read the full article visit https://guiltfreehealth.com/ and sign up for the free monthly magazine for all sorts of guilt free health advice.
Search for self love
The Nourished Woman Magazine – June 2018
“Our Reptilian brain is constantly dialoguing with us. Day in day out, subconscious constant chatter: cynical, negative and self deprecating chatter that is. It;’s just that the content has changed. It’s not so much ‘don’t get killed’ any more, it’s ‘do I fit in, am I good enough, thin enough, successful enough, good enough mum, friend, sister, daughter, love, wife, partner?’
Recgonise your inner voice here?
Except – and this is a big one – THIS ISN’T YOU!”
To read the full article visit https://guiltfreehealth.com/ and sign up for the free monthly magazine for all sorts of guilt free health advice.
Banishing Period Shame
Caboodle
My article on banishing shame around periods and helping us to reconnect with our menstrual power can be found in the Summer edition of Caboodle magazine. Buy your copy here.
“There’s a very negative running commentary we all have that we neither question nor work to change, and I do a lot of work around that. Historically women have been so shamed about bleeding. There’s a lot of work to be done to change our inner dialogue and guilt around menstruation.” Excerpt from my article.
Find out more
Get in touch to find out how I can help you or your organisation to centre wellbeing and improve mental health
Email Address
hello@jorae.uk
Call Me
07769225086
Visit Me
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