Sandra C. Ormeño Psychotherapist & Coach

Sandra C. Ormeño Psychotherapist & Coach Psychotherapist & Author. Neurodivergence, Shadow Work and daily therapeutic insights and practices, from books too!

Hello, I am Sandra and I am the founder of BestYou Therapies Ormeno, a therapeutic practice based in Dundee (Scotland). I am a qualified Counsellor, Couple Counsellor, EMDR practitioner, CRM therapist,Clinical Hypnotherapist, Psychologist and Pedagogue (Science of Education) with extensive experience, including but not limited to, working with adults and young people in areas such as childhood sexual abuse, rape and any type of sexual or domestic abuse, including ritual abuse and sexual exploitation; Also bereavement, anxiety, depression, relationship issues, (including infidelity and intimacy difficulties), addiction, self-harm, self-esteem, etc. Specialised in complex trauma and DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder). Sandra will accompany you on your journey to empowerment, growth, self discovery and self understanding through Pluralistic counselling, an approach that integrates different theories and strategies from Person Center, CBT, Psychodinamic, Narrative therapy to a wide variety of approaches, adapting and working in collaboration with you. Sandra can also offer, CRM, Creative therapies, Clinical Hypnotherapy, Animal Assisted Therapy, Outdoors therapy, Life Coaching and Reiki. Each therapy can be booked individually or as a combination.

02/10/2026

Constantly softening, agreeing, adjusting to avoid disappointing anyone feels like kindness, but it's often self-erasure. Authenticity asks you to disappoint others before you abandon yourself. Every time you say yes when you mean no, you don't prevent disappointment, you just relocate it inward, onto yourself, where it quietly accumulates. Someone is going to be disappointed by your truth. The only choice is who carries it. Expand 2% more into your real self today. Day 275 of 365 Ther**eutic Insights for 2026.
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02/10/2026

We learned that strength looks like composure, that the strong ones never let anyone see them struggle. But concealing how you feel takes no courage. Vulnerability is not weakness. It is emotional bravery. The people who seem strongest aren't the ones who feel nothing, they're the ones willing to feel everything and let it be witnessed. Share one honest feeling today with someone who has earned your trust. Day 274 of 365 Ther**eutic Insights for 2026.
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01/10/2026

This category took acceptance apart piece by piece, not liking, not giving up, not forgetting, not a performance. What remains is warmer than where we started. Acceptance is love meeting reality as it is, not as we wish it to be. Real love has never required the improved version of anything, just the thing itself, exactly as it stands. Place a hand over your heart today and say it slowly: I meet this moment fully. This closes Category 16.
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29/09/2026

We look for surrender in behaviour, did they stop arguing, did they let it go gracefully. But surrender was never a performance. It's an inner posture, not an outer gesture. You can stay quiet on the outside while still fighting internally. Real surrender happens beneath behaviour, in the body, as a softening no one else needs to witness. Where does resistance live in yours? Notice it, breathe into it, and let the tension release slowly. Day 272 of 365 Ther**eutic Insights for 2026.
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28/09/2026

Most of us have a memory we keep returning to, editing it in our minds, adding the perfect sentence we didn't say, hoping this time it will end differently. But the nervous system doesn't experience replaying as remembering. It experiences it as happening again. Learning from the past looks forward. Rewriting it keeps you standing in a moment that ended long ago. Life becomes lighter when you stop trying to rewrite yesterday. Write it today: it happened, and I can grow forward from here. Day 271 of 365 Ther**eutic Insights for 2026.
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28/09/2026

We imagine acceptance as something large — a conclusion reached after months of processing. But it's often much smaller and much more available than that. Acceptance often sounds like a quiet yes to the moment. Not enthusiasm. Just a soft yes instead of the automatic no we bring to things we didn't choose. Most suffering isn't caused by events themselves — it's the low-grade resistance we bring to them. For one breath today, release the fight inside your chest. Day 270 of 365 Ther**eutic Insights for 2026.
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26/09/2026

We're impatient with our own healing — wanting forgiveness, grief, or fear to resolve on the schedule we've assigned them. When it doesn't, we respond with pressure instead of patience. But you can't force open what isn't ready — including yourself. A bud doesn't bloom faster because we're impatient for spring. Forced opening produces damage, not healing. What part of you needs time, not pressure, right now? Offer it patience instead of urgency. Day 269 of 365 Ther**eutic Insights for 2026. ♥️

26/09/2026

Many people resist letting go because it feels like it requires forgetting — and that can feel like a betrayal of what actually happened. But letting go isn't forgetting. It's no longer living from the wound. You can remember exactly what happened while no longer letting it run the show underneath every choice you make. Living from the wound looks like reacting to the present as though it were the past. Notice its influence today — with compassion, not shame. Day 268 of 365 Ther**eutic Insights for 2026.
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25/09/2026

Giving up and giving over sound almost identical, but they're nearly opposites. Giving up is collapse — the abandonment of care. Giving over is releasing control over something we were never actually able to control, without releasing our care for it. So many people stay in exhausting battles because stopping feels like it means they didn't care enough. But some things were only ever going to resolve on their own terms. I am not giving up on this. I am giving it over. Day 267 of 365 Ther**eutic Insights for 2026.
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23/09/2026

Some exhaustion doesn't come from one event — it comes from carrying something for far longer than any of us was built to hold it. Grief never fully felt. Responsibility that was never truly yours. We call it personal failure — as if we should be stronger by now. But you cannot carry what life is asking you to set down. The human system wasn't built to hold everything indefinitely without ever resting. Visualise that weight beside you today. Not gone. Just beside you. Day 266 of 365 Ther**eutic Insights for 2026.
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