Healing Takes Times and Asking for Helps Is Courageous Steps.
―Mariska Hargitay
Edinburgh Taxi Therapy is a different way to heal. Sometimes healing does not have to happen in the inside four walls of counselling room. The idea of talking therapy inside a car may sound unusual at first. But it is bringing something very real and comforting. Our in-car-sessions provides a unique way to connect. It combines counselling with the moving wheel toward journey through the city. For many peoples sitting side by side feels easier than sitting face to face. There is something about the rhythm of the road that lets thoughts arise naturally and smoothly.
Focus Behind Edinburgh Taxi Therapy
After spent years driving a Black Cab around Edinburg and have met multiple peoples from all kind of life. With time I noticed that peoples feel comfortable while they sit in the back seat. They can share their stories struggles or even their dreams. This is where the concept of Edinburgh Taxi Therapy was born. As a BACP certified counsellor and licensed Taxi driver I wanted to bring two worlds together in a more perfect than expected. It is about driving and creating a moving space for reflection and healing.
What happened in an In-Car Sessions?
Every session take place inside a licensed Edinburgh Black Cab. It is a private safe and confidential space just like any counselling room.
- You and therapist first decide a destiny at the time of appointment.
- Your therapist come to pick you or if want you want to come on your own.
- Strat by asking on how you have been since the last session. Discussion any problem that you have faced last time.
- The main session, where you and your therapist work collaboratively on identifying goals. May be you need to discuss some events from your week, examine difficulty memory or gain knowledge into a recurring pattern.
- Then your therapist will offer a feedback and sometime they assigned you homework. Like small practical steps to apply what you discussed to your daily life. Such learning integration separate to your session is important for your long-term change.
Benefits of In-Car Sessions
- Less Contact
Some peoples avoid eye contact and feel too intense. In conventional therapy room that face to face setup can create pressure. But in car you might not have to look directly at therapist while talking. You have options to look out of the windows watch the streets pass and let you mind feels safety. That small normality and ease which sometimes traditional room cannot offers.
- Healing Emotional Wounds
Many peoples have experience from their past that continues to disturb their present life. Might be they have a traumatic exposure which left invisible scar. Certain time such memorise feel buried but they continue to affect you. On you thinking, feelings and relate to other. In-Car Therapy aims to help eliminate those emotional boundaries. It will erase the past in a peaceful way. The journey for you become both emotional and literal. Because too decided to move through your memories and rebuild them into power.
- Energy in Movement
Naturally there is something hidden in motion. The movement of the car has a rhythm which may match the rhythm of your breathing. It allows to release tension and enables a flow that sitting still sometimes cannot. You might experience that your feelings increase and settle just like car moves. Like traffic light turns red to stop and shift to green to move. This smooth movement usually support emotional processing making it easier to talk and express.
- Exploring Journey
The taxi is not an office it brings a sense of everyday life. You do not need to walk into clinical and sits under bright lights. Instead you are in your familiar environment, where you can naturally talk. This ordinary comfort usually reduce anxiety about counselling. Honestly, it feels less formal and more friendly. You are simply two people in a journey one listening with care the other sharing their story.
- Finding Calm
Many psychological traumas may take many forms. Some people have faced accidents violence and childhood pain. Some might not have one single traumatic event but housing years of stress in their mind quietly. No matter the causes such evets leave you feeling unsecure in your own body. You may get unsecure about future. By the help of in-car-session you may start to investigate those emotions safely. The privacy and motion of the car give a soothing background to deal difficult memories.
The Role of the Counsellor
This therapy in given by me. As counsellor my role in Edinburgh Taxi Therapy is to listen without judgment. Also support your emotional growth. This strategy is flexible meaning that every session will design according to you. Most of the time science fill the car a few moments. But that science is the part of therapy too. I use my expertise to make you identify patterns and understand what your emotions are basically tell you.
Why and When to Choose In-Car Therapy
There are different to choose this approach based on different reason. Some belief that motion helps them think more clearly. Other peoples take journey as physically and emotionally amazing. The city itself become a part of the part of process. The passing landmark reflecting stages pf you healing paths.
Come On Let’s Start our Journey
You don’t need to have everything figured out to start therapy. You encourage yourself to get in it. In car session gives you a direction with simple and effective way. Take a first step forward to your healing journey. You do not need to face you struggles alone. This therapy provides a clam and safe environment to talk and breath out. Each mile takes you closer to you and make to you understand things better. Book Your session right now and let me heal you mind.
“The Journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step”.
― Lao Tzu
