Katie Hampton Counsellor & Mindfulness Practitioner

I am a Psycho-therapeutic counsellor working with individuals and with couples. Counselling may help you to understand your life and why you do the things you do. I'm also a Mindfulness practitioner and have trained to teach MBSR

I am trained in Mindfulness Based Approaches in accordance with the new requirements of the UK Network for Mindfulness Teachers and Teacher-Trainers. I am committed to my own personal mindfulness practice in line with the UK Network Guidelines and receive regular supervision to support my teaching.
Mindfulness is an ancient practise with its roots in Buddhism and eastern philosophy and has been around for thousands of years. In more recent years from around the 1990’s mindfulness has made its way into more mainstream psychology and healthcare. You don’t have to be religious or hold any beliefs in psychology to practice being mindful, mindfulness is a way of experiencing life and the world in which you live and how you relate to yourself and the world around you in a kind, curious, non judgemental stance.
By using modern day approaches of mindfulness such as mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) we are practising awareness in the present moment to body sensations, feelings and thoughts, this allows us a space to experience whatever is here and brings us back to our senses. Mindfulness emphasises to the individual the thinking and feeling patterns that accompany depression, anxiety, physical pain, anger, eating disorders and mental and physical conditions.