Philippa Smethurst
@philippatherapy
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A psychotherapist with 30 years experience, my book explains 20 common ways that trauma can affect our lives and how we can break free and find resilience.
Banbury, England
Joined April 2024
Have you ever sensed something isn’t quite right — but can’t yet name it? 💭 In my new blog, I reflect on Stephen Poliakoff’s 2013 drama and the uneasy feeling of living through turbulent times. Read here: https://t.co/5uOnRf8N5v
#MentalHealth #TraumaHealing #Psychotherapy
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A trauma-informed educator at home or in schools changes children’s trajectory and environments. @NEUnion @TISUK_ @WorthitCIC @nasen_org #traumainformed #traumainformedschools #school
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When our centre is shaken and fear rises in the body, it can feel like standing in a strong wind. 🌬️🌳 Maybe we need tree wisdom today. Read my article here: https://t.co/xR8h6PdTXp With gratitude to those who protect the trees — @WoodlandTrust and @GreenpeaceUK 🌍 #Healing
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Grief is complex. It does not always look like tears🖤 In my new blog, The Child We Barely Knew, I reflect on the film #Hamnet, parental loss, and the way grief lives on. Read here: https://t.co/7tDSU1Kv0O 🎬🎭📖 #Hamnet #Grief #Shakespeare #EmilyDickinson #MichaelRosen
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Talking Trauma is a space where JKP author Philippa Smethurst reflects on psychological ideas as they show up in everyday life: in relationships, culture, art, the natural world - you can read her latest Substack post here:
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📢 Keep Calm and Weather the Storm 🌪️🛡️ In my latest article, I explore how disruption can feel overwhelming. Discover ways to protect your inner calm. 🌱 Read here 👉 https://t.co/qKfBhmokoS Ft. @BM_AG, Theodore Roosevelt #Trauma #Resilience #MentalHealth
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D-words erode us over time: denigrate, dispossess, dominate, dismiss, destruct, devalue, damage… I write about an antidote 🌱 Read here 👉 https://t.co/MJHJTyAylP Ft. @DrEdithEger1 @vangoghartist #Trauma #Healing #MentalHealth @vangoghmuseum
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This #Friday at 1pm (online) 🌱 I’m running a live workshop as part of the Talking #Trauma series: “Understand Escape Responses and Re-establish Safety.” ✨ You can donate what you can afford ✨ Details + booking here 👉 https://t.co/nbTINBYdqQ
@onlinevents @Onlinevents_saz
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Trauma Flight: How to Understand Escape Responses and Re-establish Safety, Talking Trauma Workshop Series with Philippa […]
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What if your pain isn’t just something to escape? Talking with Dr Henry Aughterson about why I became a psychotherapist and where my interest in trauma came from. Lots more inspiring reels by him - who made this one - on Instagram @doctor_mentalhealth #mentalhealth #therapy
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Light doesn’t always comfort. Sometimes it reveals what we’ve been hiding. 🕯️ I reflect on the winter solstice, #psychotherapy, and what #Caravaggio and #Freud both understood: clarity often emerges through darkness, not despite it. Read here 👉 https://t.co/OXJylu9C5p
#Trauma
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The tension between doing and being doesn’t reset with the new year. 🕰️ My new piece, 'A Tug of War', explores this through insights ft. Prof Mark Williams, @claudiahammond & @danedelstyn & @HilarySPowell 🌱 https://t.co/mRDiTA3MnL
#Trauma #Mindfulness #TalkingTrauma
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🌱 New year. New possibilities. My latest review for @psychmag, offering my book to prisons 🏛️ + thinking about #addiction. Grateful for @RestIsPolitics, @campbellclaret, @mrJamesGraham, Common Ground Justice & @JacobFreeeman. @JKPBooks 📚 🔗 https://t.co/2xnQYGALF6
#prison
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Philippa Smethurst reviews James Graham's play, Punch.
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🎄 Christmas Day! Lights on the tree, hope on the page. ✨🕯️ It's not always as simple as a 'Happy' Christmas but I wish you all a peaceful Christmas. #ChristmasDay #ChristmasReflection #PeaceAtChristmas #HealingJourney #TraumaAwareness #MentalHealth
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The move from victimhood to possibility… @philippatherapy reviews @mrJamesGraham play, Punch. https://t.co/ShLuG69M3l
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Philippa Smethurst reviews James Graham's play, Punch.
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🚰 Trauma isn’t a tap you can just turn off. Triggers aren’t simple switches — especially at #Christmas. ➡️ Follow for more. Book on Amazon. ➡️ For full videos visit https://t.co/uOHQZ4nasm ➡️ Find out about my events and work at https://t.co/zEvsohJKaI
#MentalHealth #Trauma
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🚪 Opening the doors... I write about #TomStoppard and #PeterHulsen — both child refugees — and how acts of welcome shaped Britain’s cultural life. Ft. @SinfoniaSmithSq, @NationalTheatre Read here 👉 https://t.co/qrQtrpjqJi
#RefugeesWelcome #TraumaAndHealing #ArtsAndSociety
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✨The Rivers of Repair ✨ My blog was inspired by The Rivers of Repair event led so powerfully by @TraceyJaneCamp1 and Miko Giedroyc, ft. @axrenton, and music from @soulsanctuarygc and @heirsofslavery @StPancrasChurch 🕯️ Read here 👉 https://t.co/xDZN9v00ev
#TraumaHealing
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This #AddictionAwarenessWeek, an opera at @Glyndebourne reminded me how addiction traps and crushes — just like the cages falling in Katya Kabanova. Addiction isn’t a choice; it’s a response to trauma and pain. Read more: https://t.co/onLmevw2MR
#EndStigma @KensingtonRoyal
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Did a workshop today for Reading Therapies Group — such a warm and thoughtful group of psychotherapists from across modalities 🙏✨ Great conversations, rich insights, and lots of interest in my book 20 Ways to Break Free From Trauma! 💛📘 @UKCP_Updates @BACP @BPSOfficial
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The final workshop - but just for this season - is 5 Dec for my online series with @onlinevents: Our Need To Escape Pain. We’ll explore how we try to medicate or run from painful experiences — and what it means for healing 💛 🔗 https://t.co/nbTINBYdqQ
#MentalHealth @JKPBooks
onlinevents.co.uk
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