About Wings & Quill
Wings and Quill is a clinical private practice with global outreach
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...which has supported thousands of individuals to improve their mental health and increase life satisfaction, sense of connection and purpose.
We are inspired by the innate possibility of each person’s life. We are strengths based and passionate about growing what is already working and finding the treasures in your natural skills sets, lived experience and insight. Rather than being limited in pathology, Narrative Therapy doesn’t make assumptions, it centres your uniqueness and heralds creative solutions that enable you to feel empowered and excited to live your life.
We are committed to supporting you
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...to develop your own self soothing and regulation capacity so you can be with the parts of you that you might not have known how to look after before. With the reliable and consistent support of psychotherapy a relationship is developed with your therapist which allows vulnerability, and for all of you to be met. If progression has been stuck it is often that we haven’t known how to be with some of our experiences. A safe, trusting therapeutic relationship allows us to internalise a sense of autonomy and steadiness that can be life changing in it’s outcomes.
We focus on working in a very individualised, person-centred approach where a deep and comprehensive therapeutic relationship can be established. We are committed to hearing you and understanding your unique story. We believe that when people can be seen and truly heard can disarm the coping mechanisms that might otherwise hinder growth. There is safety to become open to re-writing your story in a way that allows more for you, and makes you feel more enthused about the opportunities in your life.
Our primary values are:
Inspiration:
Inspiration means to inhale, to animate, to be alive. Inspiration to us encapsulates the precious opportunity of each person’s life and the possibility of growing desire, interest and commitment to life in order to fuel their direction forward.
Connection:
Connection is the magic ingredient for change is to feel supported, safe and seen and to feel witnessed in your change so it is real to you and becomes part of your knowledge of yourself.
Authorship:
Once we are supported and aware, we re-claim the option to re-story our lives, we can move into responsibility and empowerment in creating a world that most reflects who we are and what we want to be here for.
Our vision and mission:
Is to offer deeply respectful and innovative treatment that gifts agency and empowerment to our clients.
We are client centred, deeply personal and individualised in the way we understand each person coming to our practice. With specialisation in eating disorders, body image and anxiety we have in depth training and experience to be robustly equipped to support the myriad ways these experiences can present themselves.
Mental health doesn’t tend to stay in tidy categories and with this lineage of specialisation we also bring a wealth of understanding to other mental health and life challenges such as other mood disorders, trauma, addiction, relationship challenges and much more.
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Wings & Quill offers a range of services
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...so that clients can include as many aspects of treatment as may be useful. All of which are underpinned by a humanistic, post-modern philosophy of care.
At Wings & Quill there is the opportunity to transition from intensive treatment via a range of support options to ensure the ongoing solidifying of recovery.
Disordered eating and other mental health experiences don’t develop in isolation, and when a community of support and understanding is available it reinforces change and learning.
One of the differences of the Wings & Quill approach is that in addition to exemplary individual treatment, clients have the option to meet and join others on their journey with Wings and Quill through facilitated peer support and programs which further expands the positive shifts being made in their life.
Wings & Quill is passionate about
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...advocacy, education, community projects, and qualitative research that prioritises lived experience.
In addition, Wings & Quill offers specialised training and supervision for clinicians interested in working with disordered eating so that the industry as a whole may be most helpfully informed and upskilled when working in this multi-faceted and diverse area.
The meaning of our name, Wings & Quill
Wings represents flight, transformation and hope. Wings captures our value of inspiration.
Quill holds our narrative therapy roots – a symbol for writing your story and also for how a feather from Wings, can become an instrument for proactive change through authorship, in becoming a quill.
Together Wings and Quill is a name that reminds us of directed possibility, grounded in personal agency.
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Specialisation in Easting Disorders & Anxiety
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Disordered eating and negative body image experiences can be complex and multi-layered.
Wings & Quill offers therapeutic intervention for the full spectrum of eating and body difficulties, from diagnosed and longer term experiences, to addressing the beginning symptoms of interrupted eating and body discomfort.
While body image and eating behaviours are significant factors, underneath these symptoms are usually limiting ideas and inaccurate self-concepts which serve as an unsteady foundation of self which the disordered eating then takes root in.
Wings & Quill addresses eating challenges in a holistic framework, supporting practical elements relating to physical health, whilst synergistically inquiring into the underlying structures which allowed for these symptoms to develop initially.
Without this psychotherapeutic work, research has consistently shown that symptoms will present again.
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