We start from different places… and choose different destinations.
“I feel as if our work together has involved unstitching my life with great care, to sew it together into something new. Something that I want to wear.”
Therapy client, April 2024
Myszka is also a registered Psychedelic Integration Therapist, listed with the Institute of Psychedelic Therapy
Quiet therapeutic spaces:
The Therapy Suite at Foxes’ Retreat is set in a separate building, for complete privacy.
There is parking just outside the door, with both a kitchen and a bathroom adjoining for clients to use.
If you arrive a little early for your appointment, please help yourself to tea or coffee whilst you wait. You are welcome to make a drink to bring into your therapy with you too.
Talking therapy spaces:
One with firm armchairs tucked either side of the log fire (below, left)
One with softer armchairs, tucked away in the adjoining room (below, middle)
One with a large table, for creating mindmaps, plans and doodling thoughts as we go (below, right)
Myszka is a Person-Centred counsellor, but has also trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and in Acceptance & Commitment Therapy.
We also offer the option of Therapeutic Writing for those clients who wish to use creativity to access their own processes.
These different modalities allow her to draw on a range of approaches for each client, as suits their needs and situation.
*Please be aware that Walking and Talking Therapies are available for those that find movement helps the thought processes.
From Myszka,
"My overarching interest is in our processing of deeply held emotions. When we do this, we can allow ourselves to experience the present moment, rather than to be pulled this way or that by triggers from our past experiences.
Difficult things will have happened to each of us, and finding a way to work with ourselves is an attainable goal when done with compassion and support. The therapeutic relationship is where the work happens, that space between therapist and client held with trust and care.
I encourage each client to work at their own pace, to take control of the work with my support. The desired outcome is for each client to feel that they no longer need to see me regularly because they are thriving with their own rudder to guide them. This can take a few sessions or longer, depending on the individual and the work undertaken."
Therapy is individual, not off the peg…
Our service is confidential and sensitive in a quiet and comfortable therapy suite at Foxes’ Retreat, to support you through life events or circumstances which you may be finding to be challenging. As individuals, we don’t always have a smooth path in life, and counselling can allow us to shift our thinking and find our way through challenging times with support along our route.
We work flexibly to suit individuals’ needs. Myszka has a particular interest in finding individual strategies for clients to better manage the ups and downs in life. Each one of us is different; there is no single one-size-fit-all answer for any of us, but we do work much better together than we do alone; we are all essentially social creatures by nature.
During the Covid-19 Pandemic, we offered online therapy through ZOOM to help many to maintain connections in difficult times. We are still happy to offer this post-pandemic, if this way of working is most appropriate for you. Face to face therapy is also available, in the Therapy Suite here at Foxes’ Retreat, for those who can more easily travel to us.
Myszka is happy to arrange a time to discuss the best approach for you to gain a healthier perspective and inner strength to live your life less stressfully. Therapeutic clinic hours generally fall into these time frames:
Mondays 1pm to 630pm
Tuesdays: 1pm to 630pm
We are only an email away.
*Everyone at Foxes’ Retreat welcomes working with individuals of all races and ethnicities, genders and expression of those genders, sexuality and sexual orientations, religions, marital status, or military status, If there is anything I have omitted here, please be assured it is a genuine error, and not a sign of exclusion. Contacting us to mention any omissions in this area will be well received!
Animals at Foxes’ Retreat
Millie (pictured with Myszka on the front page of our website) is an Assistance Dog, allowing for all sorts of exciting adventures to unfold for Mrs Fox when she steps away from Foxes’ Retreat, as well as supporting us in our work here too. Millie She is happy to sit in with therapy clients, as a soothing presence. or to spend her time in Mr Fox’s office, tucked away by his log burner. Please ask if you would like her present, or if you are nervous of dogs as we will pop her into Mr Fox’s office during your session here.
Animals are a part of our lives, so please do not ask to stay here for a day or more, if you cannot embrace them as part of the package. They do not go into The Hayloft Retreat area, but will be about the farmyard, kitchen and workshop room.
*For in person therapy sessions, the dogs are more than happy to lounge in the house, well away from client work, but for Day Retreats or Residential Retreats it would be unfair to lock them away from their usual routines - and they love people visiting us!
Myszka has been registered with the British Psychological Society since 2015, and a member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists since 2019, and follows their Code of Ethics.
Comments from Foxes’ Retreat therapy clients …
“I feel better, somehow lighter, I think. I haven’t been able to tell anyone else those things before. It feels easier now I have said them. I feel relieved to have said it out loud. Thank you.”
— Therapy Client, August 2023
“The session yesterday put me in a much better place mentally - I hadn't realised I had been holding on to so much stress and worry so being able to air it has left me feeling so much lighter. So I just wanted to express my gratitude! Thank you!
(I got out for a hike today!! My lungs are still a little lousy post-covid but we stomped out 4 miles or so and are very merry for it :D)
Warm regards and see you in a couple weeks!”
— Therapy Client, September 2023
“It’s so good to see you again. I hadn’t realised how helpful it is to be able to talk things through without burdening anyone at home, or worrying them.”
— Therapy Client, May 2023
Autism and ADHD:
Myszka on working with neurodivergent individuals and their families:
Through lived experience, and an understanding that the presentation of this condition varies from one person to another, I am able to explore and support your journey both before and after diagnosis, and the rollercoaster of emotions that can unfurl.
There are a range of strategies for neuro-divergents to work with in a neurotypical world, and finding the ones that suit and sit best with each person is a privilege.
Accepting self is the first step.
The old-fashioned view of autism is so far from true - the deep sensitivities of someone autistic can be found in mirror synasthesia and the “beautiful reality of autism”.
Myszka on working with Lipoedema:
I have personal experience of this disease, and an understanding that the issues around it are not restricted to the physical nature of lipoedema.
I do not bring my own experience into your sessions, but offer a true empathy from someone who has walked this road, often with very great difficulty. I can sit with the dark feelings that this disease can bring.
There are different ways through this experience. I have found some of them. They might not be yours, but my non-judgemental therapeutic experience can support you to make the choices that are best for you.
Depression
Body Image
Frustration
Suicidal Thoughts
Anger at not being heard
Social Anxiety
Self Harm
Eating Disorders
Pain and mobility issues
Relationship Issues
Other areas worked with therapeutically may include:
Depression
Self Harm
Substance Abuse
Suicidal Thoughts
Generalised Anxiety Disorder
Health Anxieties
Social Anxiety
Adolescent Issues
To make an initial appointment to discuss ways forward:
07734 328762 or email: myszka@foxesretreat.com
Investment £60 per therapeutic hour, but please do ask about concessionary rates if you are in receipt of PIP or other benefits.
Therapy office hours:
Mondays 2pm to 630pm
Tuesdays: 2pm to 8pm
Wednesdays: 2pm to 630pm
Thursdays: 4pm to 8pm
Fridays: 9am to 10am
Therapeutic Writing
Would you like to explore using writing for therapeutic exploration?
Foxes’ Retreat are uniquely placed to offer safe therapeutic spaces alongside writing prompts to explore issues in a creative manner. This can be a powerful way of working through difficult issues that you might be finding it hard to voice out loud.
I faciliate two hour workshops here at Foxes’ Retreat, or through ZOOM, for individuals who are looking to explore their own processes through creativity.
Get in touch if you would like to know more about how these 1:1 Workshops run at Foxes’ Retreat.
Investment: £75 per individual for a two hour workshop
I saw this some time ago,
and feel that is so true…
"Piglet?" said Pooh.
"Yes?" said Piglet.
"I'm scared," said Pooh.
For a moment, there was silence.
"Would you like to talk about it?" asked Piglet, when Pooh didn't appear to be saying anything further.
"I'm just so scared," blurted out Pooh.
"So anxious. Because I don't feel like things are getting any better. If anything, I feel like they might be getting worse. People are angry, because they're so scared, and they're turning on one another, and there seems to be no clear plan out of here, and I worry about my friends and the people I love, and I wish SO much that I could give them all a hug, and oh, Piglet! I am so scared, and I cannot tell you how much I wish it wasn't so."
Piglet was thoughtful, as he looked out at the blue of the skies, peeping between the branches of the trees in the Hundred Acre Wood, and listened to his friend.
"I'm here," he said, simply. "I hear you, Pooh. And I'm here."
For a moment, Pooh was perplexed.
"But... aren't you going to tell me not to be so silly? That I should stop getting myself into a state and pull myself together? That it's hard for everyone right now?"
"No," said Piglet, quite decisively. "No, I am very much not going to do any of those things."
"But-" said Pooh.
"I can't change the world right now," continued Piglet. "And I am not going to patronise you with platitudes about how everything will be okay, because I don't know that.
"What I can do, though, Pooh, is that I can make sure that you know that I am here. And that I will always be here, to listen; and to support you; and for you to know that you are heard.
"I can't make those Anxious Feelings go away, not really.
"But I can promise you that, all the time I have breath left in my body...you won't ever need to feel those Anxious Feelings alone."
And it was a strange thing, because even as Piglet said that, Pooh could feel some of those Anxious Feelings start to loosen their grip on him; could feel one or two of them start to slither away into the forest, cowed by his friend, who sat there stolidly next to him.
Pooh thought he had never been more grateful to have Piglet in his life.
