Articles
by Sophie Barrett
Reasons for Change
FINDING YOUR WHY Finding Your Personal Reason for Change In order to ensure change lasts we need to understand where it comes from. Reflecting on how you have got to where you are now enables us to explore the reasons why change is desired and needed and why...
Fitness Routines
WHY IS MY FITNESS ROUTINE NOT CHANGING MY BODY? A Mind & Body Perspective There is often uncertainty as to what the “right” type of exercise is and a struggle to find the balance between time spent at the gym and time resting. The question of when, what,...
Sports Massage
WHAT IS SPORTS MASSAGE Sports Massage is a massage treatment which targets soft tissue working to ensure they are in optimal health to function. Sports Massage aids the Recovery and Management of Soft Tissue damage caused by exercise and postural misalignment,...
Pilates: How it works
HOW PILATES CAN AID REHABILITATION WHAT IS IT Rehabilitation is the process in which we aim to improve movement function following an injury. It involves restoring strength, flexibility, endurance, and power of the muscle, with an aim of reaching pre-injury levels...
Pilates and Rehabilitation
HOW PILATES CAN AID REHABILITATION WHAT IS IT Rehabilitation is the process in which we aim to improve movement function following an injury. It involves restoring strength, flexibility, endurance, and power of the muscle, with an aim of reaching pre-injury levels...
Movement Correction
MOVEMENT CORRECTION & POSTURAL REALIGNMENT WHAT IS IT? Our posture is how our body holds itself in standing, seated, and in movement. A good posture helps your balance, prevents injury, and reduces postural and muscular pain. Movement correction and...
Difference Between General Massage and Sports Massage
NEUROMUSCULAR TECHNIQUES & SOFT TISSUE MASSAGE Sports Massage targets soft tissue to decrease tension and increase efficiency, with less focus on the overall relaxation of body as a whole. Sports massage works at a physical and physiological level, removing...
Depression
An Emotional and Psychoanalytic Approach to Depression What is depression? We all experience depressive states to varying degrees. These can be triggered by internal and external changes or movements which upset our emotional stability. Rather than dominating our...
Worlds We Live In, Inside & Out
THE WORLDS WE LIVE IN Inside our Head & Outside our Body We all have an internal and an external world of which healthy functioning is essential for the development of our minds. How we navigate between these two worlds shapes how we externalise our internal...
Child Development
CHILD DEVELOPMENT IN BRIEF The first emotional and psychological developments occur through the interaction between parent and baby. This article provides a brief insight into how an infant develops emotionally, and the importance of the primary care giver’s role in...
Meet Sophie Barrett MSc, BA (Hons), Dip, CertHE
I am a qualified Counselling Psychotherapist, accredited member of the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP) and a member of the British Psychological Society. As an accredited member of BACP I am recognised as having achieved a high standard of knowledge, experience and development in counselling and psychotherapy through my accredited MSc qualification as well as a through a separate rigorous application and assessment process within the BACP. As a BACP accredited member I receive supervision when in practice and am bound by the BACP Ethical Framework.
I am a qualified Register of Exercise Professionals (REPs) registered Pilates and Pre and Postnatal Pilates instructor and a Level 4 Sports Massage Therapist with membership of the Association of Soft Tissue Therapists. REPS is an independent public register which recognises the qualifications and expertise of health-enhancing exercise instructors in the UK which provides a system of regulation for instructors and trainers to ensure that they meet the National Occupational Standards. All professionals on the Register are appropriately qualified and have the knowledge, competence and skills to perform their role effectively.
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