Love The Child Within

As a child our greatest need is to be nurtured, nourished, loved and cared for.  A healthy family, means we are provided with a safe space to grow emotionally, to explore, to discover, to imagine, to create and to simply be – to cry, to laugh, to feel anger and to feel love.  As adults we are more able to maintain a healthy balance between our responsible, problem solving adult self and our childlike sentiments, freely expressing our child’s joy, spontaneity, creativity and sense of fun into our adult life. 

Coming from a dysfunctional family, in which we may have been abused, neglected, shamed, abandoned, rejected, made to grow up too quickly or told we were never good enough meant we never received the nurturing, care and love we needed for our emotional growth and maturity.  Never having had the freedom to play as a child, never having been given permission to enjoy life, to have fun or to freely express our thoughts and feelings in a safe space can result in us supressing our feelings and needs and becoming emotionally stuck at that point in our lives.  Our child’s grief, pain, shame, guilt, fear, anger and feelings of isolation continue into adulthood.  As a result we may struggle to maintain healthy relationships, we may strive to maintain an appearance of control and order by overachieving or afraid to let go and enjoy life, take life too seriously demanding perfection.  We may even shirk responsibility afraid of taking risks and exposing our weaknesses.  Self-preservation becomes essential and silences the child within, preventing the walls of our self-imposed prison from caving in and leaving us vulnerable and exposed.  Unless we reconnect with our inner child and learn to love the child within we will be unable to continue on our journey to wholeness and fulfilment.

Using a variety of therapeutic techniques, Inner Child Therapy can help you reconnect with your inner child, providing you with a safe and non-judgemental space to explore, express and work through your feelings.  Inner Child Therapy gives you permission to embrace and enjoy your life fully as you discover and learn to love the child within – the real you.

Time for a change…

… time to achieve much more in your life than you would on your own…

… time to overcome the obstacles in your life that may be preventing you from becoming the person you desire to be…

… time to start living the life you love…

… time to create a more balanced and fulfilled life…

Sometimes life can be particularly challenging and confusing and you may feel that you no longer can cope on your own. You may have reached a crisis point in your life when you can no longer live with the problem.  You may feel that you are not comfortable discussing these issues with friends or family or because of the fragmented and broken society we live in, you may find that you have no-one you can talk to.  Feeling alone can only make the problem seem insurmountable and can ultimately hold you back in some way or another.  If you know that you have the resources and support to deal with your feelings about certain issues and find solutions to your problems they no longer seem so big.

Today you have taken the first step to making positive changes in your life, the beginning of your journey into a less stressful and more promising and fulfilling future.  Although change is necessary, it can also be overwhelming and finding the appropriate support to assist you in working though your feelings and exploring effective and beneficial solutions to your problems will help lesson the load.

My name is Chalene Long, and here at Chameleon Coaching and Therapy, I can offer you help and support on a number of personal and interpersonal conflicts, concerns and issues.  I offer support to both adults and teenagers.

As an Integrative counsellor, I enjoy working organically, drawing on different therapeutic approaches that will best provide you with what you need to continue on your journey to becoming the person you want to be.  My passion is to enable people to overcome difficult circumstances in their lives and to create a warm, safe and non-judgmental environment in which they can fully and freely express their feelings and thoughts.  My desire is for them to gain a clearer and more objective perspective of their life and goals so that they can find healing from their past and develop the life skills to better cope on a daily basis.  As their therapist, I will support them in achieving their dreams, encouraging them to discover, explore and realise their true, unlimited potential.  I combine my skills in psychotherapeutic counselling, hypnotherapy and coaching, as well as my own personal and work related experience, to provide my clients with a unique package to help them love the life they live and to live the life they love.

Deciding on the right counsellor and treatment plan for yourself can be daunting and it is for this reason that I have attempted to make this website as informative as possible with regards to the different therapies I offer.

The services I offer are:

• Hypnotherapy
• Psychotherapy and Counselling
• Personal and Life Coaching

I can offer you help with:

• Stress, anxiety, depression
• Phobias and fears
• Loss and bereavement
• The emotional impact of miscarriage and abortion
• Trauma, abuse, bullying and harassment
• Relationship issues
• Parenting
• Sleep disorders
• Pain relief
•  Anger management
•  Addictions: alcohol, drugs, self-harm
• Smoking Cessation
• Identity, self esteem and confidence building
• Motivational coaching
•  Assertiveness
•  Work/life balance
•  Career guidance
•  Weight control, body image and well-being in a small group or for        individuals  
•  Inner child healing

I offer an initial 30-minute consultation free of charge so that we can meet and discuss what your goals for therapy are and whether we can work together to achieve your goals.  We would also discuss the treatment options that would best work for you.

Hypnotherapy sessions last for 75min except for smoking cessation, which is a 2hr session; Psychotherapy and Counselling and Coaching last for 50minutes.  Coaching can take place via skype or the telephone if you are unable to meet face-to-face.  I also offer 10min coaching calls and email support.

Sessions take place in my consulting room in Rushden.

If you have any questions and would like to discuss your options further please do not hesitate to contact me.

Mobile: 07834226025

Email: chameleoncoachingandtherapy@gmail.com