Hi my name is Heline Freea,
I am a registered (MBACP) Integrative relational Counsellor, Somatic practitioner, mental health recovery skills trainer, energy healer, writer and clinical supervisor with over 27 years’ experience working in universities, colleges, schools, social care, charities, and NHS communities.
My specialisms are supporting young people, individuals and groups impacted by domestic violence, childhood sexual abuse, addictions, relationship and communication difficulties, modern human slavery, and abandonment trauma.
I am very passionate about empowering individuals to strive to be all they can be. I draw from a spectrum of therapeutic and holistic modalities such as somatic experiencing, CBT, humanistic and psychodynamic therapy, creative arts, mindfulness, energy psychology and body psychotherapies. Having a multi-faceted way of working I can accommodate most client’s needs and offer them a varied choice of therapies.
To make her therapeutic approach more versatile, dynamic, and precise, she integrates energy healing methods to my existing repertoire of skills.
Personal and professional development trainer (7307/7) teacher training certificate. Workforce development skills trainer. Preferred training provider for social care and medical organisational development skills.
Lecturer Bradford and Hull university (Diploma of lifelong learning). Counsellor mental health officer & Counselling lecturer Bradford and Leeds City College, Leeds Arts university. Consultancy, research, and training projects in education, wellbeing, and community.
Clinical supervisor to trainee and qualified counsellors. Community based reflective management team’s supervisor.
For child therapy and youth counselling please see my website
www.createtorelate.co.uk
Being a trauma survivor herself and being brought up in a family environment of abandonment, narcissism, addiction and abuse she draws on her personal journey of breaking free from ancestral intergenerational patterns of domestic abuse, poor self-esteem, and a diminished sense of self to becoming empowered finding holistic an alternative way to self-heal finding deep inner peace within.
How my trauma shaped me to become my own therapist?
I understand how a person’s sense of self and developing identity can be compromised and eroded by repetitive trauma. The traumatic experiences can interrupt healthy development creating adaptive responding styles causing confusing, chaotic emotional and psychological reactions in children’s psyche. Many Invisible wounds can stem from experiencing adverse intergenerational trauma transmitted down through family generations making us susceptible to anxiety, depression, and neurodevelopmental disruptions.
Identity
Heline feels strongly about supporting individuals to question injustice and has worked with many ethnically diverse groups experiencing disempowerment. She strives to empower others with hope and respect and motivates others to recognize the self esteem threats that trigger acute emotional states, believing their identity to be a precious motivator for self-expression.
The journey to authenticity is a lifelong process examining faulty beliefs ingrained in childhood that keep you stuck from fully being who you truly want to be. She inspires others to live in their truth and encourages authentic and honest expression helping them to understand the roots of their trauma and how their identity becomes shaped by others. She supports individuals to re-evaluate their perceived potential in alignment with their true-life purpose.
She realised through her own counselling and self-healing that some talking therapies can be re-traumatizing and found ancient eastern healing treatments and indigenous cleansing practices creating a better overall mind body balance.
Realising the limitations of some talk therapies she became inspired to adapt her treatment and assessment methods by employing a more somatic, holistic narrative to accommodate language barriers, historical and cultural experiences of the individual in recovery.
Music, art, play is useful in encouraging expression or when verbal communication is uncomfortable or difficult. She draws on Eastern wisdom, philosophies, spiritual rituals, energy healing practices blending integrative, holistic, and psycho-educational somatic interventions into her practice.
Additional cultural and spiritual components of therapy can be ancestral communication prayer, dance, spiritual and herbal medication, and purification.
She is a strong advocate of raising awareness of mental health issues developing mental health recovery skills training and awareness raising sessions in education and the medical field delivering workforce skills as well as trauma interventions for teaching, health, trainee G.P’s, and social care teams.
She provides therapy to children, teens, adults, and groups of all races.
She is passionate about supporting individuals from unique populations such as Esol students, immigrants, refugees, and unaccompanied refugee children struggling with complex, and dynamic intermix of cultural factors and treatment barriers. Across 25 years she has supported many traumatised people with issues of PTSD and CPTSD experiencing flashbacks, intrusive memories, and dissociation unable to provide a verbal narrative of their trauma.
She educates others about adaptive styles of relating helping them recognise unresolved childhood trauma shifting deep rooted generational family struggles.
Spiritual Counselling
Working with individuals from different worldviews I have noticed the comfort they have gained from their religious and spiritual practices engaging with prayer, rituals, in the sustaining of their emotional and mental wellbeing. Our souls communicate to us through universal languages of synchronicities, symbols, auditory and visual senses, bodily vibrations, intuitions, and felt senses. Spiritual consciousness can drive us to find purpose in our lives illuminating our place in this world improving resilience and provide hope in suffering.
Influenced by a mind body holistic practice, trauma theory and spiritual psychology she recognizes facets of human spirituality and world’s traditions to be the cornerstone of accessing a client’s value system and innate wisdom of life’s meaning, purpose, and fulfilment.