When we enter counselling or therapy we bring our heart. The “language of the heart” in therapy is about the words and the actual language we choose to open up or to protect ourselves. Relationships are about being heard and understood. Language is only one of many ingredients that is needed. Counselling and therapy is also about being heard and understood.

Many WOMEN often wonder if, while living in the UK as ex-pats, they should have therapy in their mother tongue or just English.

It is no wonder that psychotherapy has been called the ‘talking cure’ (Breuer and Freud, 2007). 

Why should you join therapy in your mother tongue?

1. Speaking in your mother language has the power to access your earliest memories. 

2. We can access a different ‘part’ of ourselves. 

3. It makes us feel more fully understood. When I can speak in my native language to my therapist, I feel deeply understood.

4. We can make you feel more empowered. Being able to do therapy in your mother tongue might help you find empowerment in your language and your personal culture.

5. Bilingual brains work differently and it might show in therapy. It has been shown that the bilingual brain is very different from the monolingual brain, and this might show in the therapy room. 

Therefore Healed Scars offers counselling therapy in Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, Polish and Spanish. We believe it is important to have a space where the role of language can be explored and where you can feel at ease and understood in your mother tongue.

Thinking of getting support in your language? Want to find the strength of rebuilding your life after trauma or abuse? Any questions? Just drop us an email support@healedscars.uk