Therapist Online
in London and the surrounding areas, Glasgow, Argyll & Bute and nationwide
Dear Frontline
I am writing to pass on my huge thanks to your team, in particular to Morag Jeffery. I have just completed a set of phenomenal sessions with Morag. She provided an environment of incredible support, relaxation, advice, techniques as well as immensely impactful rewind therapy. As a GP, I have come across a number of counselling types both professional and personally, and I have never found such wonderful benefit or profound help from a seemingly simple yet fascinating form of therapy. Morag has a true talent and skill that I wish could be bottled! If only Rewind therapy was available to everyone with any trauma. I can not thank frontline or Morag enough for providing me with this fantastic opportunity to better my own health and ability to continue to support my patients through the pandemic. I have been highly recommending your service to colleagues and will continue to be grateful. Please pass my incredible gratitude to Morag and the frontline team.
RACHEL
I want to thank you so much for giving me my life back. Before therapy with you, I felt like I was in a permanent state of anxiety and hyper vigilant state. I particularly liked how you noticed I had been through trauma before I said I had, it made it easier to bring to sessions! I couldn’t even say “I’ve been through what I experienced” before therapy and in our last session I was able to have a comfortable conversation with you about it. You were so flexible, compassionate and humanistic that it was easier to share the big stuff. I struggle to trust but I trusted you to keep me safe in sessions. Thank you so much for giving me back a good quality of life. I look forward to updating you about my ongoing work towards making sure no other child was failed like I was.
With love.
AMY
Hi Morag. I just wanted to let you know how I’ve been getting on since I last spoke to you. I’ve been back on my normal shifts for the past 2 weeks and things are almost back to normal. My sleeping has improved drastically and my anxiety levels when at work are much better. Thank you so much for helping me through my little blip. I don’t understand how or why the Rewind therapy worked but I’m so grateful that you were there to support me through it. There was a time I didn’t think I would ever feel like myself again but thanks to you and your therapy, I am back to my normal, stubborn, strong self doing the job I love. Thank you again.
JAIME
Good morning,
I'm writing to you to let you know that my Rewind Therapy with Morag (through Red Poppy) has now been completed.
I would just like to let you know that her therapy/method of work has been incredible and has made a monumentous impact on my well being. I have been taken myself back to the place where my sons resuscitation happened and it did not trigger me.
I have been having Talking Therpies since August and although it has been helpful, Morag's therapy has had a quicker and more significant impact & this has only been a matter of weeks.
I HIGHLY recommend her services to anyone who is struggling or has experienced trauma.
Morag carried out an assessments on needs and this was also helpful.
Being that the assessment was remote/in the comfort of my own home, I found this to be of a higher benefit also.
I feel that with the high numbers of staff within SWAST, there will be more members in the future who will benefit as greatly as I did with Morag.
If you can, please pass on my thanks to Red Poppy, but especially Morag.
Kind Regards,
LAUREN
In the months leading up to meeting Morag I would probably describe myself as 'broken'. I felt nothing but a deep grief and constant anxiety, and it impacted heavily on everything I did, including my job as a nurse, which I loved and which was a hugely important part of my life.
I was in tears every day, and often had no idea why. I couldn't sleep for more than a few hours a night, and when I did I had nightmares about my ward, my colleagues and my patients. The job I loved became a source of fear and I began to have anxiety attacks frequently. All the fun things I used to enjoy became pointless, I stopped caring about everything. I went from missing my family and friends (who I couldn't see because of lockdown) to being relieved I didn't have to see them and try to pretend everything was okay.
I felt disconnected from everything and everyone.
When I met Morag I didn't feel worthy of her help or time, and I didn't believe she would be able to make me feel any different to how I felt then. I spent most of the first few sessions crying and trying to articulate what I felt, but Morag was always able to listen, reassure me and somehow help me leave the sessions feeling lighter than I did at the start.
She was able to explain to me why I was experiencing these problems, and helped me understand I wasn't 'mad' but traumatised, and how the brain and body processes trauma. The therapy she used helped me face my memories and work through them, and honestly it felt like I was finally able to breathe again after feeling like I was drowning for so long. The fact that she was able to make such a dramatic change to how I felt in such a short period of time was also a massive relief.
Morag taught me practical ways to manage my triggers, to process my emotional responses and prioritise my needs. I understand myself much better and no longer feel weak or broken. I use the tools she provided me with every single day, and have begun to tell my colleagues also, so that they might benefit too.
Morag has not just given me back my life, but also the ability to continue in a career that I love, and I cannot recommend her enough.
LAURA
Hello I just wanted to send an email to thank you for the time and help I have received from Frontline19.
I first contacted the charity on the 28th February. I work as an ICU nurse and had been having a very difficult time prior to reaching out. The last year working in the pandemic had affected me in so many ways. I had a short period of time where I was signed off but felt under immense pressure to return to work. I had been suffering with insomnia, panic attacks, flash backs and found it incredibly difficult to leave the house. The pandemic had not only impacted me but had started to impact on all my relationships as well.
The most frightening aspect of what I was suffering from was the overwhelming anxiety. I found myself constantly terrified terrible things were going to happen to my family. This anxiety stemmed from the things I witnessed during the pandemic. The anxiety became so overwhelming I would have near constant chest pain, pins and needles in my arms, headaches and breathlessness. When I did seek help from my GP they sent me to ED where I was made to feel like a timewaster something as an NHS nurse I found very upsetting. I was put on a waiting list for NHS therapy that I was told could be 7-8 months. In the mean time I was continuing to try and work in incredibly difficult circumstances with little to no support from my managers. When I contacted Frontline 19 I was desperate for anything that would help.
Within a matter of days I was put in touch with a therapist, Morag Jeffery. I can't explain how grateful I am to Morag and all the staff at Frontline 19 whom I know have given up their valuable time to support NHS workers. I spent many weeks having sessions with Morag where I was immediately put at ease. She had an understanding of what healthcare workers had experienced and been through that made me feel at ease to speak freely and honestly about my experiences.
Rather than purely being a listening ear Morag supplied me with strategies and coping mechanisms that made day to day life gradually get easier. She helped me rationalise and overcome my anxiety with such simple techniques when previously I had been relying on medication. Morag helped me to understand about trauma and the impact that trauma has on our mental health. By doing this I was able to process some of the memories and experiences that I still felt haunted by. But most of all she helped me see light at the end of the tunnel.
I can't thank you all enough for helping me in my time of need. I am finally starting to feel like my old self again and although there is a long road ahead for us in the NHS I feel stronger to be able to make decisions about my future wherever that may take me.
I have told many colleagues about your service and I know there are many more in need of your support. It is very difficult to feel the way healthcare workers do right now, to feel so unvalued is a difficult thing to come to terms with but knowing there are organisations like yours, full of volunteers who care and want to help means the world. So thank you. Thank you all so much. Best wishes.
HEATHER
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