helping you with your journey

TMJ Therapeutic Solutions offers a range of online and face to face sessions across a range of subjects as well as 1:1 & group sessions throughout mold and the surrounding areas

Welcome to TMJ Therapeutic Solutions. First and foremost, I want to introduce myself and let you know what it is I actually do at TMJ Therapeutic Solutions.

My name is Tanwen.

I am a 32-year old, wife and mother of two, from Flintshire, North Wales.

During the first lock down, whilst on maternity leave, I decided to complete my Certificate in Grief Recovery with the Grief Recovery Institute and then when I went back to my full time work in Education I trained as a Drawing & Talking Therapist.

I lost my Grandparents when I was seventeen and twenty three, which sent me on a journey, spiraling out of control. These were people I visited every single day, I would stay there most weekends as a child and go there for breakfast before school every morning, I cherish very happy memories of my relationships with my grandparents and the pain I experienced all the time just didn't seem to go away when they passed, until I discovered the Grief Recovery Method.

 The Grief Recovery Method is different to therapy, as it is not open ended. I help to guide you to take your steps to recovery, by learning the miscommunications, the six myths of loss and learned behaviours the Short Term Energy Relieving Behaviours, the relationship with the loss (good and bad) and learning to complete with the pain and despair that Grief leaves you feeling. We never ask you to say goodbye or forget about the person or the thing you have lost, just the pain.

The 6 myths of loss:

• Don't feel sad
• Replace the loss
• Grieve alone
• Time is a healer
• Be strong
• Keep busy

Everybody grieves in their own way, how you're feeling is completely natural and normal.

Tips on what not to say to a grieving person:

• I know how you feel
• Everything will be OK
• Anything that is about you and not them
• At least...

When my grandparents passed I didn't deal with my loss, I didn't have the tools to do this. I have now, since completed my training in the Grief Recovery Method, learnt to deal with the loss and now I help others embark on their journey through loss.

In 2021 I supported over 100 parents and professionals through my Helping Children with Loss programme and saw many clients on a one to one basis for the Grief Recovery programmes but also lots of children and young people for Drawing & Talking Therapy sessions to help with anxieties, domestic violence and many other issues impacting on negative emotional well being.
 
 

Here is what I can offer:

• Grief Recovery  one-to-one sessions which are 1 hour a week for 7 weeks.
• Grief Support Groups which are 2 hours a week for 8 weeks.
• Helping Children with loss (for parents & professionals) which is 2 hours a week for 4 weeks.
• Pet Loss Support Group which is 1 hour a week for 6 weeks.
• Drawing & Talking Therapy  which is 30 minutes per week over 12 sessions.
• Sand Play Therapy which is 30 minutes per week over 12 sessions.

Please call me on 07896 108293 for more information on my full range of grief recovery specialist  services.

Certified Grief Recovery Specialist

Advanced Drawing & Talking Practitioner

Mental Health First Aider

Mental Health Lead in a Special School

Diploma Level 4 in Counselling & Psychotherapy

Diploma Level 4 in Counselling & CBT

Level 3 Safeguarding 

Full DBS

Fully insured