Tracey-Anne Holloway: Integrative Counsellor & Practitioner

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Tracey-Anne Holloway: Integrative Counsellor & Practitioner

My mission is to help women feel empowered, strong and confident in their mind, body and soul.

28/08/2026

Nobody warns you how loud a quiet house can be.

You raised them to leave - that was always the job. And still .. the first week after the car pulls away with their boxes in the boot .. the silence can feel like something has been taken rather than achieved.

This is grief .. even though it’s also pride. The two can sit at the same table. You’re not u grateful for missing the mouse .. and you’re not failing at ‘letting go’ because it aches.

I often sit with people in this exact in-between - the identity that quietly asks ‘who am I now?’ now that my parenting role has changed shape.

If the house feels louder than you expected .. my door’s open 🤍

12/08/2026

Redundancy - when work was more than a wage 🤍

Losing your job can cost you more than an income.

Redundancy rarely lands as a single loss. There’s the money .. yes .. but underneath it, the routine that shaped your days, the colleagues who knew you, the quiet sense of meaning & purpose. When work has carried part of your identity, being told your “surplus” can hit somewhere far deeper than the bank account.

If you’re feeling knocked sideways by something the world expects you to just “bounce back” from, that response makes sense. You’re not overreacting. You’re grieving structure that held more than you realised.

Sitting with people through these unchosen transitions is part of the work I care about.

If this is where you are .. my door’s open 🤍

14/07/2026

Knowing your attachment style is a starting point .. not a sentence.
The real work is what becomes possible once you understand the pattern.

Curious where you sit 🤍

26/06/2026

Your nervous system isn’t broken. It’s doing exactly what it learned to do 🤍

There’s a difference between managing stress and understanding it.

When your body keeps sounding the alarm long after the threat has passed, that’s not a flaw to fix - it’s an old alarm that never got the all-clear.

As an integrative counsellor, I support your systems in understanding it’s finally safe to stand down.

Working emotionally & somatically - not just cognitively 🤍

Each offering a different doorway in 🌿

23/06/2026

Boundaries are how you keep returning home to yourself 🤍

16/06/2026

Fight / Flight / Freeze / Fawn

Fawn is a survival response too. Not a personality trait.

We talk about fight and flight.
We rarely talk about the ones that go quiet - the freeze that locks you in place, the fawn that makes you everyone’s peacekeeper before you’ve noticed you’re afraid.
These aren’t weaknesses.
They’re old protections that helped your younger self to cope.
Part of integrative work is helping the body recognise it’s allowed to stand down now.

If this lands with you, you know where I am.

11/06/2026

You can choose the change and still mourn it.

Even the changes you choose can ask you to mourn something. That’s not you doing it wrong - it’s the work of moving through 🤍

If you’re in an in-between season, my doors open. Link in bio.

03/06/2026

Your body keeps the score 🌿

Long before we had words for what we’re feeling, our bodies know. The tight chest before we admit we’re anxious. The clenched jaw we didn’t notice. The breath we’ve been holding - sometimes for years.

Somatic practices invite us to listen.

Rather than only talking 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 our feelings, we gently turn towards what’s happening 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 - the tension, the holding, the subtle signals we’ve learned to override. Because stress, anxiety, trauma, grief and loss don’t just live in our thoughts. They live in our muscles, our breath, our nervous system.

A few gentle ways to begin:

🌱𝗡𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 - pause and ask, “What is my body saying right now?” No need to change it. Just notice.

🌱𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗹𝗼𝘄 - a longer exhale than inhale signals safety to your nervous system.

🌱𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 - feel your feet on the floor, your back against the chair. You are here. You are safe in this moment.

🌱𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 - soften the jaw, drop the shoulders, unclench the hands.

Healing isn’t only a conversation. Sometimes it’s a slow, kind homecoming to the body we’ve been living 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘷𝘦 rather than 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯.

In my work I weave somatic awareness through integrative counselling, hypnotherapy, EFT (tapping), Bowen Therapy, Sound Healing & Therapeutic Yin Yoga - meeting you wherever you are, at whatever pace feels right.

Come as you are. Leave more like yourself 🤍

What is your body telling you today? 👇🏽

23/05/2026

Does this resonate with where you are right now 👇🏽

17/05/2026

Ever felt like part of you wants to move forward .. and part of you is gripping the door frame for dear life?

You’re not broken. You’re not weak. You’re not “your own worst enemy.”

You have parts.

Parts therapy invites us to see ourselves as not one fixed self who keeps getting it wrong - but as an inner gathering of voices, each with their own fears, their own wisdom and their own good reasons for doing what they do.

The part that can’t hold the boundary. The part that abandons things before they can fail. The part that says ‘you’re fine’ when you’re really not.

These aren’t flaws to fix. They’re parts to understand.

When we get curious about these parts - rather than fighting with them - something quietly remarkable happens. Old patterns begin to soften. The grip loosens. And you find a little more room to breathe.

This is the kind of work we can do together. Gently. At your pace. With all of you welcome.

Come as you are. Leave more like yourself 🌿

💬 Which part of you feels loudest right now - the one pushing forward or the one holding back?

Address

Much Wenlock
SY56

Website

http://traceyannehollowaycounselling.co.uk/

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