Welcome to our second live therapy workshop in partnership with FORA London, London’s tailored workspace that provides its residents with spaces to be happy and healthy to deliver their best work.

This workshop - ‘how to manage the uncertainty of a Corona Christmas’ is a pre-record of a live therapy workshop where Louise & clinical psychologist Dr Helene Laurent-Oliver work through a vast variety of topics that often come up in therapy in the winter months, whilst going deeper on specific topics such as the winter blues, seasonal triggers, family boundary setting, loneliness, excess around Christmas, and more. The workshop also discusses management techniques to make this Christmas a little less stressful than those gone before.

You can access the Spotify episode here.

You can access the Apple Podcast episode here.

You can also get access to your session workbook by filling in your details below - to guide you during or after the session:

Workshop Structure

To start the workshop, Dr Helene and Louise explore Winter:

Louise’s historical connection with the winter blues and how her winters previously have been very different to this one.
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) - exploring whether Louise has ever experienced it
The value of a morning routine and the small daily activities that Louise feels are contributing to her good mental and physical health this year. The two work through a morning routine exercise; and
a demonstrates a ‘Locus of Control’ exercise to help us better manage anxiety, uncertainty and catastrophising.

The pair then explore Lockdown and the impact on our emotions and human connections:

how lockdown has impacted Louise and how she is feeling - connected, disconnected, reliant on others, independent?
how has lockdown impacted friendships, relationships and does Louise feel lonely?
The pair also explore a trigger and boundary setting exercise to help you best manage any familial situation this Christmas when many personalities all come under one route.

To finish the workshop, Louise & Dr Helene explore how the pandemic this year has made many people feel pressurised that they have not yielded any progress or moved forward:

complete a positive and compassionate reflection exercise on the year gone by and look towards 2021. This is led by Louise and her own experiences throughout 2020.

Throughout the session, Louise & Dr Helene also take live therapy questions and help viewers at home with any questions that they might have.

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Chat to you guys soon and, in advance, Merry Christmas!

Louise & Dr Helene xxx