How my journey began

My name is Claudia Asprey and I was born and brought up in Braunschweig (Brunswick), Germany where I completed my Teaching Degree.

My connection to England developed at the age of 17 through a student exchange to a family in Devon. We became friends and later I was fortunate enough to meet my future husband through them, whilst working in their catering business.

I’ve now lived in East Grinstead, West Sussex for 17 years. I am a mother of sons, I have a horse called SPLASH, a cat called Naela, and our latest addition is a ball python called Onyx!

Over the years I have balanced being a housewife with tutoring various children for German GCSEs and completing a Holistic Counselling Diploma stemming from my long interest in personal development.

In 2003/4 I did Yoga Teacher Training in Germany, designating the start of my spiritual journey. Already living in the UK in 2008 I was introduced to ‘The Artist’s Way’ (Julia Cameron) by a mum from my Steiner toddler group. I worked through the whole book and diligently did my exercises, which lead me to writing morning pages, allowing me clearer insight into my thoughts and feelings, for years to come.

I also achieved Reiki grades I and II in the same year. My journey then went onto ThetaHealing™ (Vianna Stibal) for the following years, which taught me to become aware of “energies”, inside as well as outside of me. ThetaHealing™ is for the most part very intuitive work and it helped me to develop that side of myself. From there I started work with “Empowered Being” (later “Source Awakening” by Errol Campbell), a more heart-based approach. I also travelled to Asia for different meditation retreats (Errol Campbell and Vipassana) and worked with vibrational essences (“Emerald Heart” by David Ashworth) before starting the Holistic Counselling Diploma. In 2019 I focussed on Dr Joe Dispenza’s work, which really shifted things again for me. In 2021 I completed the first two phases of Brainspotting (David Grant), a phenomenal co-regulating psychotherapy that allows for incredibly deep work and access to areas in our psyche that talking therapy could never reach.

In 2018 the opportunity to privately tutor a German boarder at a local public school came up, a chance to combine my being a teacher with the counselling. Watching him learn and settle into his new environment allowed me a deep insight into his daily challenges. These were different to those of my own children’s school and life stresses, both social and academic, including my eldest son doing his GCSEs under the new 9-1 grading system at the time.

The idea of stress coaching, to support children and young adults before problems escalate and to ensure a positive base level (mindset, emotions) from which to learn, was born. I now offer de-stress coaching to schools and individuals in East Grinstead and the surrounding area.

~ My methods ~

De-Stress Coaching: Include counselling, mindfulness practices, NLP (neurolinguistic programming) exercises, hypnotherapy, meditation.

Brainspotting: A therapy form for rapid and effective change - attunement, co-regulation

Healing Therapies: The most accurate description would be that it is an intuitive healing approach linked with my personal learning of all the modalities for which I studied and qualified.

I have had an affinity with horses all my life, spending all my free time as a teenager at a horse yard in Braunschweig, Germany.

It took me the best part of 25 years to come back to this calling (horses), very quickly meeting SPLASH and riding him as a sharer, then taking responsibility for him on loan and having him gifted to me for good in 2019 in a loving and selfless gesture by his owner.

What inspired me to use my horse’s name for my counselling business?

SPLASH is a childhood dream come true in adulthood that gives me immense joy. Being around SPLASH grounds me. He just is, without agenda, and I find sharing a space with him - in which we both simply are - a very healing and joyful experience.

~ Visit my BLOG for Splash - inspiration ~

S - Strength P - Positivity L - Love Life A - Answer Within S - Self Acceptance H - Happiness

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