Many people suffer, often for a very long time with depression and low mood. This can be described as feeling down sometimes without any clear reason why, feeling sad all the time, feeling that life is gloomy and hopeless with nothing or very little to look forward to. 

Depression can often be the the effects of going through a difficiult experience such as a trauma, the loss of a loved one, struggling to cope with your finances, a relationship breakdown,  a lack of confidence in yourself and much more. 

This can be shown in ways that you don't always expect, such as isolating yourself from people who care about you, putting yourself down, giving up on the things that you enjoy doing, keeping your thoughts and feelings to yourself, lashing out, general feelings of unhappiness and hopelessness. 

For some people, there may be medical reasons that may cause depressive symptoms. For e.g. your doctor may prescribe antidepressents to deal with low serotonin levels in your brain. Serotonin is known as the feel good hormone. It is released when people exercise, get involved in voluntary activities, get good quality sleep, take a brisk walk in the sunshine eat healhily etc.    

If you have found yourself feeling very low in mood, or depressive for a very long time, then it is time to seek help. It is always helpful to see your GP to let them know how you are feeling and the way these feelings are affecting your life. Also seeking help from a CBT psychotherapist or counsellor is also a good starting point. This is where we can help. Our psychotherapists can help you with working on any distorted thoughts, beliefs and unhelpful behaviours, that is affecting your daily life. The most important thing to remember is to take action to do something about this problem. At Blue Diamond Wellbeing, we would always encourage you to take care of your mental and emotional health, as this will improve the quality of your life.  

A lack of confidence is quite a common experience for many people. It can range from not being sure about how to do something, or feeling a little worried about speaking to people in general or approaching a person that you have high regard for. Or it can be more serious such as feeling ashamed because you beleive that you are not confident to pass exams, or tests or undertake other day to day tasks compared to other people, who seem very confident about doing many things.  

Lacking confidence is often the result of feeling worried, anxious and afraid of doing new tasks, or speaking to other people for fear of failing or making a mistake. These fears have often been as a result of a past experience, of being told that you are not capable, or not good enough and being put down by others. This can come from partners, family members, friends, work colleagues or anyone.  

At some point in life, everyone will experience some form of a lack of confidence expecially when you are trying something new, or being pushed out of your comfort zone. This does not mean that you are not capable, it just means that you are facing a new and interesting challenge which can be exhilirating and difficult.  Unfortunately, someone with a lack of confidence can begin to give in to their thoughts and feelings about their abilities, by veiwing life challenges with dread and fear.  This can affect your ability to feel confident that you can do many things. 

At Blue Diamond Wellbeing, we can certainly help you do deal with any issues affecting your confidence, so that you can face new experiences and challenges with confidence and self belief. 

Low Self-esteem is generally a strong negative belief about yourself as not being quite good enough, around other people or when you undertake tasks. You may find that whenever you evaluate problems or situations that are difficult or unpleasent, you may very quickly see that you are somehow the problem or the cause of the difficulty. 

In some cases you not feel good about yourself if you have been excluded from a group, or because you may not be popular or had a fall out with friends.  In these situations, you begin to think that somehow you are not a very nice person and will start to put yourself down.

Low Self Esteem is always linked to your sense of self worth. Whenever someone suffers from this type of self rating, they have developed distorted and unhelpful thoughts and beliefs, that affect a true and realistic evaluation of any situation. It is highly unlikely that you coild be solely responsible for a task that may have gone wrong at work. Also, it is perfectly natural to have differences of opinions with family and friends without having to blame yourself for this.

At Blue Diamond Wellbeing we can certainly help you to examine any distorted thoughts about yourself and show you some effective ways to think about solving  problems.  Giving yourself a poor self rating is never helpful to anyone and often has a bad impact on your confidence and life goals. We want to help you to avoid this by recognising and valuing your self worth, despite what challenges you may face.   

Separation and loss is an especially difficult experience for many people. This can be in the form of a bereavement such as the death of a loved one, or the break up of a relationship or the loss of a marriage. Even the loss of health into illness or disability, the loss of a home or a valued job resulting in the loss of an important income.   

Separation is often linked to the loss of someone you were firmly attached too. Being separated can feel very distressing, as some separations can be permanent,such as divorce and families being broken apart. Separation is the recoginition that an attachment has been broken.

Grief is a normal response to the death or separation of a loved one. Grief is the expression of sadness at the loss because this is often a permanent situation you are now dealing with. It is difficult to put a time limit on how long a person grieves as everyone is different. But grief can lead to depression if your feelings of sadness sink you into a deep hole of depressive moods and feelings for a very long time. This is where you may need some help to address things. 

Some separations can be good and helpful, for e.g. if you were in a destructive relationship or work environment, that was causing a great deal of stress on your health and wellbeing. It may actually be the right thing to do to separate, so that you can evaluate what you need in your life.However.  there are some separations and losses that are deeply sad, especially the death or broken attachment of someone you loved and was close to.

If you have found yourself in anyone of the above situations and are finding it difficult to recover from these experiences, it may well be worth seeing your GP and a counsellor. We all have bonds that can be difficult to be separated from, whether that is good or bad. But if you are finding the loss very hard to come to terms with over a very long period of time, you may be experiencing sadness, tearfulness, depression, anger, hurt etc, then its time to get some help.

We can help you to overcome some of these negative emotions and help you to work through what may be going on in your thoughts about things. Don't continue to suffer in silence and let life pass you by. Moving forward in life can really help.   

We are all connected through relationships, whether that is through work colleagues, partners, spouses, family members, friends, communities, faith based or in business. When relationships work well and are healthy, they can bring about happiness, fulfilment and a good sense of connection. 

But sometimes relationships may also come with problems, conflict and challenges that may cause distress, harm, frustration, anxiety, fear and disharmony. One of the most difficult areas for people to manage in their lives, is relationship problems that have been on-going for a very long time. This could be due to regular arguments, fault finding, a lack of appreciation of each other, anger issues, resentments of the other, harsh words, commitment issues, money worries, unfair treatmrents etc. When relationship proiblems persist, this can create a wearing down of both parties and a separation can begin to appear. Regardless of who may be at fault for causing the relationship problem, invariably both parties are negatively affected.

We can help you to discover new ways of tackling relationship problems and conflicts in a way that brings about clarity of thoughts and moving forward.  One of the important things to consider is to rebuild your confidence and resilience and to recognise that relationship issues are quite common and that appropriate challenges can also bring about new healthy changes and decisions that will help you and the relationship that you are in.         

If you are in an unhealthy, toxic and dangerous relationship, we will work with you to understand how to rebuild your sense of self worth and confidence and to explore ways for you to keep yourself safe. Always remember that relationships are meant to serve you and not to cause you harm. To relate healthily is about give and take, compromise, good boundaries, care and consideration. Sometimes, these elements may need to be developed for a healthy relationship to emerge from the problems. The key thing is for
your relationship issues to be resolved, so we advise you not to leave things to continue getting worse.  

When it's difficult to talk to family and close friends about your problems, psychotherapy, counselling and mindset coaching offers you a very safe alternative. Taking good care of your mental wellbeing and mindset is a personal investment that will last a lifetime, so we are here to help you do just that. 

We enable you to learn effective new ways, skills and strategies to tackle those issues that are troubling you. By doing so, this will bring about great relief and lasting change.  

In many cases you may want to receive short term therapy and coaching of just a few weeks to tackle current issues affecting your life and well-being. Or you may wish to delve deeply into issues from your childhood that has troubled you throughout your life. Either way Blue Diamond Wellbeing will remain with you throughout your therapeutic experience and provide the support you need. 

With our unique combination of psychotherapy mindset coaching and personalised spa treatments, you will eventually leave feeling relief, positive, truly valued and inspired.

Blue Diamond Well-being will provide you with a complimentary, 20 minute consultation taster session. 

• This is to gain a clear overview of your issues 
• To explain to you how we work 
• The benefits and outcomes you will gain 
• The number of counselling/coaching sessions 
• Overall treatment costs 

You will be met by a skilled and experienced therapist/coach on Zoom video call.  We aim to carefully listen to your problems, show understanding and to give you some insight into the issues you are struggling with. 

Then together we will determine if our service is the right fit for you. However,  in many instances most people proceed with us.   

We provide highly skilled Cognitive Behaviour Therapy aka CBT,  as our main therapeutic approach. This helps to address limiting unhelpful beliefs, unhealthy emotions and defeating behaviours that do not help you. We always seek to deal with the heart of the difficult issues that you face. 

In your consultiation you will soon experience a welcoming, relaxed and inspiring environment. 

We want to give you the best therapy experience possible. So one of our chief aims is to enhance your well-being at a deep and meaningful level.

 We provide an All Inclusive Package, which includes psychotherapy, mindset coaching and personalised spa treatments, refreshments and use of spa facilities. 

- A Complimentary Consultation, 

- A 90 minute mental and physical health assessment.  

- 6 - 12, 1 hour counselling sessions and more if needed.

- Your personalised spa treatments.

Your all inclusive package is booked and paid for in advance to secure your sessions.  

•  Your physical health assessment will be for your carefully planned personalised spa treatments,  to tackle the tension and stress on your body. This may consist of two or more spa treatments.  

•  Your personalised spa treatments will take place in a luxury Spa hotel group, in a stunning country or city location of your choice. Details will be sent to you by email of your chosen spa location. 

On arrival you will be greeted by a specialist who will provide this for you.   

•  We believe that this combined holsitic all inclusive program, when followed through, will not only be really enjoyable, as it melts away the aches, tensions and pains, but is very effective to ensure a good and inspiring outcome, mentally, emotional and physically.  

We believe and understand from research that there is often a direct causal link between mind and body. You will probably want to return back to us, whenever you are feeling overwhelmed or distressed about anything,. This is because our emphasis is always on your holistic well-being.     

•  All psychotherapy counselling, coaching and spa treatments are personalised to you as an individual. So no one treatment may be the same.