Being With...
Charlee
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Charlee listens deeply to birdsong
allowing herself to be guided
by Nature
she sits in stillness
revering the play
of light and shadow
upon suburban walls
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Charlee is a bridge
between
the mundane and the mystical
the unspoken and the manifest
The mind-shackled and the embodied
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Charlee (Charlotte Browning, MA) received her dramatherapy training at Roehampton University, led by the exceptional nurturing guidance of ‘Mother’ and ‘Father’ archetype-holding tutors Henri Seebohm and Pete Holloway. Charlee is a state registered Dramatherapist with 12+ years’ clinical experience, registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), a member of the British Association of Dramatherapists (BADth), a member of the ICO (data protection) and is fully insured with Holistic Insurance Services.
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CONNECT WITH ME
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t. 07939241949 ​
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Support yourself through being with Charlee in:
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Individual therapy/support sessions (50 mins)
student rates available for trainee therapists
Family/2 person sessions (1 hour)
Group therapy
Workshops
reduced rates available for the unemployed and those existing solely on Maternity Allowance
Threshold therapy and ceremony making (1 day)
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Support package (3 months)
Support package (6 months)
Bespoke packages / ceremony / half days / circles / ritual
Please contact Charlee for rates.
Rumi said, "Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart." That is what I witnessed when I first met Charlee. Her embodiment had me mesmerised. I didn't even know I needed it at that time. But her presence brought presence. She brought kindness and affection and it showed. When I invited tenderness into my heart, fear started to dissolve and I could feel the excitement of a new way of being within myself. This was a major breakthrough for me. Not only in my personal and business connections but my creativity too. It feels so good to be receiving my own tenderness. I now call her Tender Queen. Thank you for the invitation. I'm so grateful I accepted it.
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“Your compassion and also natural, easy way of visiting with older generations was inspiring to me. It shifted the way I thought about interacting with senior citizens as a twenty something gal”
-- yoga teacher and friend
-- PreMa - Spiritual Paediatrician/Vision Doula
OFFERINGS
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CREATING RITUAL AND CEREMONY
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WOMEN
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DRAMATHERAPY
Charlee gently guides people to uncover, name, explore and mark important life moments, transitions; times that may have been unmarked, missed, unspoken about or marked in a way that now needs re-framing. Together we create the ritual or ceremony that is right for you.
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This thread of Charlee’s work runs into all of her other offerings too, working intuitively to tune into the right moments for creating ritual and ceremony as a way of marking, processing and healing significant life experiences. It may well be that, through engaging with Charlee (for example, in one-to-one therapy, child-parent support sessions or a women’s circle), an appropriate time and space presents itself for creating a meaningful, bespoke ritual. This often involves crossing a threshold of some sort - a visualised threshold, an energetic threshold or, indeed, a co-created physical threshold made within a session.
Charlee works with women to bring about a societal Mutha-Lovin’ shift
Therapeutic offerings include:
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Supporting women to connect with sisterhood, release shame and rise into their sovereign, empowered selves.
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Therapy focussing on the experience of being a woman.
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Cycle awareness: Tapping into the innate power, wisdom and magic of the Menstrual Cycle. Facilitating women to transform their experience of monthly cycles, bringing more ease, vitality and possibility to their lives. Creating deep connection, body honouring and alignment. Connecting to the seasonal cycles of the year - living in harmony with, and noticing, the abundant blessings and teachings of Nature and the seasonal changes.
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Empowerment of The Birthing Woman: Perinatal support, therapy, visualisation, postnatal holding, creating a web of support… Charlee has developed her own ritual - the ‘Postnatal Sacred Bathing: Deep Mothering’ technique - to allow women who have recently given birth to be held in water with tenderness, Love and deep Mothering care, as they deserve to be.
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One-to-one therapy sessions. Online or in person.
Safety. Playfulness. Embodiment. Liminal space. Journeying together.
Charlee particularly enjoys working with trainee dramatherapists for whom she offers a discounted rate.
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THE CHILD-PARENT RELATIONSHIP
Support sessions for parents and their children exploring: new ways of being-with each other, co-regulation, playfulness, enhanced connection and Presence.
GROUP OFFERINGS
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Workshops to bring about a sense of connection, hope, health and resilience
Charlee’s workshops include ‘Self-Resourcing During Turbulent Times’
‘Going Within, Being-with Nature’ and ‘Living the Wisdom of the Menstrual Cycle’ as well as many bespoke workshops designed according to need.
FIRESIDE CIRCLES
"Sisterhood connection"
Fireside sharing circles for women who are ready to work on themselves. May include ‘Name and Shame’ practices to release shame into the fire. All online fireside circles will require participants to bring a candle and an expansive heart.
NEW MOTHERS
"Web of love"
Supporting the mothers of newborns to find each other, enhance self care and reflect deeply in a held space. The main aims of this group are to lessen isolation and nurture new mothers.
Dramatherapy groups for trainees
For trainee creative arts therapists. All dramatherapy groups are currently being held online, thus trainees from universities throughout the UK are welcome. Bring a sense of playfulness, a journal and some fabrics!
RADICAL REST
(an underpinning of Charlee’s practice)
Allowing oneself to rest
really rest
free from guilt
free from shame
free from toxic judgment
(real or imagined)
Radical Rest
is a technique
a practice
(a life choice
a health choice
a bodymind communication)
that Charlee prescribes
again and again
to herself
to her clients
to humankind
Radical Rest
to.
be.
your.
best.
allow previous self limiting beliefs
to be released
and feel, with every cell,
the power of reclaiming your right to rest;
Radical Rest.
GUIDES
My Mama
I thank my own, dear mother, for birthing me, for carrying me in her womb for nine months, for all the menial tasks, for all the mundane chores, for all the times she wanted me to talk with her, for all the cuddles, for all the little rituals, for all of her struggles, for her beautiful body, for giving me a heart full of compassion; for the depths of her Love.
A human who understands, and makes public, the intricate web of connection between body systems, social systems and psychological interconnection. Breaks stigmas that view ‘the addict’ as the problem, unearths transgenerational traumatic inheritance and speaks wisely of a ‘biopsychosocial’ perspective to understanding human interbeing.
This female hormone Goddess guru’s work is life changing, pain relieving, symptom reducing, body wisdom promoting, hormone balancing, support giving, empathy enhancing, vitality cultivating and health strengthening at the very least.
This woman embodies gentleness, deep, compassionate human understanding, forgiveness and grace.
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Queen Irene! This woman is a phenomenal source of body-wisdom, free resources (like this one!), nervous system knowledge and good, solid, life-changing work. Irene Lyon’s specific, focussed, scientifically rigorous work provides just the right balance of education, embodied practice and care to help us move from traumatic reactivity to balanced self-regulation.
Always directing us back to Presence. Eckhart Tolle’s explanation of the Pain Body and Ego (individual and collective) can be felt, and easily identified, within families, dramatherapy practice and embodied techniques. Eckhart is a guide to contentment in the here and now.
Eurhythmy therapists and soul guides. Ursula’s gentle guidance helps one feel held in all realms and is particularly attuned to the nurturing energy needed for new mothers and their children. John’s humour brings sparks of joyful connection his soul work.
" THAT WAS REAL"
-- participant in therapeutic group ‘Creating our Life’s Rituals’, Buddhafield festival workshop
“I hope to be as grounded, boundaried, knowledgeable and loving as you. You are so sensitive in guiding me through the tensions and so patient with me as I go in circles. Thank you for helping me to bear my heart out to you. I have come into a heightened awareness of my thought processes after working with you and I cannot thank you enough for believing in me and highlighting my strengths and blindspots. I am so, so glad to have found you”
-- individual client (one-to-one dramatherapy sessions over six months)
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Charlee says…
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“I am walking a path, an outdoor path, carrying a lantern, all four seasons surround me, I am walking to greet the sunrise in the meadow clearing.
I serve people on the brink of transformation, those who feel drawn down by external uncertainty, relationship disharmony, family dynamics, chores, parenting struggles, chronic conditions, dis-ease, diagnoses, prognoses, ill health, overwhelm, burn out, shame, guilt and fear.
I serve others by serving myself first. By honouring myself with daily care rituals and tenderness; by being the archetypal illuminated Mother to my own self every day. From this platform of nurturance I serve others by creating connection, possibility, reverence and safety.
I co-create transformational experiences with my clients. These experiences include individual dramatherapy sessions, fireside sister circles, ceremonies, child-parent support sessions, shame release circles, educative workshops, self-care guidance and completely unique bespoke packages created in the moment. I midwife the expression of innermost Truth, creativity and healing.
I serve humans. I serve anyone I meet upon this path that I am walking, barefoot in the woods, heading up to the sunrise; anyone who says YES to joining me on this path.
I facilitate the birthing of new ways of being; being-with one another”
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