When Did You Stop Being Fine? | Dorset Counselling and Hypnotherapy

When Did You Stop Being Fine? | Dorset Counselling and Hypnotherapy

There’s this thing that happens so gradually you barely notice it. One week you’re laughing at something stupid on TV, sleeping like a log, rolling with whatever life throws at you. Then months later you realise the person you used to be feels like a stranger.

You used to love a Friday night. Now you’re on the sofa half-watching something while your brain replays every conversation from the week. You used to sleep through the night. Now 3am is when your brain hands you a detailed list of everything you’re apparently getting wrong. And you keep telling yourself it’ll pass. A rough patch. A holiday will sort it out. But the holiday came and went, and you felt exactly the same on the way home.

Here’s the thing. You’ll spend hours researching the right mechanic for your car, the right vet for the dog, the right school for the kids. But when it comes to your own head? You just hope it sorts itself out. And that’s not a criticism. We’ve been taught to crack on and push through. But being strong and knowing what to do with the mess inside your head are two completely different things. That’s not weakness. That’s not having been given the right tools.

I’m Mark, and I’m a counsellor and hypnotherapist who comes to you. Your home, your sofa, your kitchen. Anywhere across Dorset. No clinical rooms, no fighting for parking, no arranging childcare, no sitting in a car park afterwards trying to compose yourself before you drive home. Just a conversation in a place where you already feel safe.

And if you’re thinking “but is it really that bad?”… you don’t have to be in crisis to deserve support. Sometimes it’s enough to just be tired of feeling the way you feel. You don’t need the right words or a neat summary of what’s wrong. Most people start with “I’m not even sure why I’m calling, but…” And that’s more than enough.