by Dione Davies | Dec 30, 2019 | Counselling, Finding myself
I listened to Braving the Wilderness, read by Brene Brown Hey everyone! This past week I read a book. It’s pretty miraculous! I don’t actually read very many books and, to be completely honest, actually I didn’t read this book. I listened to it on...
by Dione Davies | Dec 24, 2019 | Anxiety, Art Therapy, childhood trauma, Counselling, Depression, Finding myself
The miracle question There is a counselling approach called Solution Focused Therapy and one of the techniques that they use in this counseling approach is called the miracle question. This question is a life changer. And I sometimes accidentally say the golden...
by Dione Davies | Dec 18, 2019 | Anxiety, Art Therapy, Counselling, Depression, Finding myself
About focus and positive thinking Do you know how a camera works? How you can focus a camera? You know you turn the front or, you know, you push a button on your phone or whatever. Anyway what happens is that you can choose which part of what you see will be in sharp...
by Dione Davies | Dec 12, 2019 | Anxiety, Art Therapy, childhood trauma, Counselling, Depression, Finding myself
I’m going to talk to you about free writing. Now I don’t know who came up with this term. I didn’t. It’s not my thing. I learned it from my sister Shelly in a creative writing class she taught. Some people call it stream of consciousness...
by Dione Davies | Dec 12, 2019 | Anxiety, Counselling
A trick from a friend Today we’re talking about anxiety and a little trick I learned from a friend. Yes here’s a little trick from me, an anxiety counsellor in NZ. She heard this from a podcast called choiceology or something like that. I have yet to...
by Dione Davies | Dec 6, 2019 | Counselling
As a counsellor with a practice that is 100% online, I am a huge advocate of online counselling. I enjoy it and believe it is very effective. I also believe that it provides a whole raft of added benefits that regular, in person, counselling does not. The biggest...
by Dione Davies | Nov 30, 2019 | Counselling
We are in different locations As you know, online counselling is counselling that is provided when the counsellor and client are not located in the same room together at the same time, which is the normal way that counselling would occur. They may be in different...
by Dione Davies | Nov 24, 2019 | Counselling
Part II in the Online Counselling Series You’ve heard me talk about online counselling. You know I help people who feel lost, who feel they have lost themselves, and who are stuck. You know I often work with people suffering from depression and anxiety and often the...
by Dione Davies | Nov 18, 2019 | Counselling
I provide online counselling and art therapy, but some of you might be lost at even those few words. What even is online counselling? Firstly, what is counselling? I use the word counselling, because that is the term we use in New Zealand. But other places might use...
by Dione Davies | Nov 14, 2019 | Anxiety, Art Therapy, Counselling, Depression
Hi! It feels like a long time since I’ve talked to you but it probably isn’t for you! Recently I followed through on something I mentioned in a previous video and I attempted to go up the Hakarimatas with my daughter. And it was an interesting experience!...
by Dione Davies | Nov 12, 2019 | Art Journalling, Art Therapy, childhood trauma, Counselling, Finding myself
Hey everyone! This is Dione from After the Rain Arts Therapy. The lover of art journaling. The person who raves on and on about the positive benefits of art and the life lessons you can learn! That’s me A favourite saying I wanted to share an art journalling...
by Dione Davies | Nov 11, 2019 | Art Therapy, Counselling, Finding myself
Hi everyone! This is Dione from After the Rain Arts Therapy online. I wanted to share with you a book about me. I offered it as a one-day course at one stage and had a few people come and it was so fun! And I made this book. Now it’s been in a box for a few...
