APOTHECA

The shop is open on Monday to Friday from 10 am-5 pm and Saturday 10 – 4.00. The clinic is open all week for treatments.

Our mission is to help clients enhance their health and wellbeing through various holistic services, natural beauty and body care products, herbs, teas, and herbal remedies. We also offer a wide range of services and therapies to help you achieve and maintain optimum mental and physical health. Our products are carefully handmade or curated with care.

 

Located in the heart of Faversham, Kent, Apotheca has blossomed over the last 10 years.

 

We are proud to provide such services to our community, joining clients on their natural health journey.

 

PRODUCTS AND SERVICES We offer a range of herbal remedies, teas, supplements, natural skin and beauty products, oils, and so much more.

 

You are certain to find what you’re looking for, but if you don’t, we’re happy to place an order for you where possible. Natural therapies on offer include acupuncture, massage, cognitive behavioral therapy, confidential counselling in a safe environment, herbal medicine, craniosacral therapy, homeopathy, hypnotherapy, pregnancy massage, reflexology, reiki, and more! To view a full list of the services we offer, please click here.

 

OUR TEAM Our practitioners are highly qualified and respected with an exceptional standard of care. With each service, you can view the name and qualifications of each professional.

Read our testimonials , they speak to the kindness, compassion, knowledge, and personal attention we devote to each and every client.

Please feel free to contact us and a practitioner will be happy to help you choose the service that’s right for you.

 

CONTACT We are located at 13 West St. Stop in or give us a call at 01795 227 423. We look forward to seeing and serving you!

 


NEW TREATMENT

INTEGRATIVE COUNSELLING

COUNSELLING (INTEGRATIVE)

Nature-inspired, existential and person-centred integrative counselling with Louise Allen (fern counselling)

COVID UPDATE: Louise is available for new and existing clients. Offering indoor, outdoor and telephone therapy sessions depending on what we deem to be the safest option for you right now.

louise.allen.counsellor@gmail.com

http://www.ferncounselling.space/

07562 635869

Instagram and Facebook – @ferncounselling

I am a qualified integrative counsellor, which means I draw on different counselling concepts and adapt our sessions to suit your needs and the issues you want to explore. I focus mostly on how you are experiencing life in the here and now. I provide a non-judgemental and confidential space for you to talk about your thoughts and feelings.

I work indoors (at Apotheca), outdoors in and around Faversham, and on the telephone.

I offer a free initial telephone or Zoom session to discuss what you are looking for in counselling and how we may work together.

 

Click here to arrange an initial session

 

Integrative counselling (find out more)
I work collaboratively with you – you are the expert in your life and in what works and doesn’t work for you. I bring a range of “tools” and an understanding of psychological theory to help explore any issues or changes you would like to make in your life. I see the counselling relationship as a very human one and approach my work with you from a place of authenticity and empathy.

Creative counselling (find out more)
In counselling, it is my role to try and understand what life is like for you. Sometimes, it is difficult to find the words that accurately explain how you feel. Using creative tools like drawing, writing poetry, using image cards and working with metaphor can give additional dimensions for conveying or representing your experience.

I am trained to work with a range of creative techniques in our therapy, and I am constantly on the lookout for new ideas and exercises which we can work with in our sessions. I work in a collaborative and flexible way, moulding my therapeutic approach to suit your needs and the issues you are bringing to counselling. We do not need to work creatively, but knowing there are a range of different ways we can explore an issue gives us greater possibility to find what works for you.

Nature inspired counselling (find out more)
My therapeutic approach is inspired by nature; life cycles and natural growth processes inform my understanding and approach to our internal processes and experiencing of the world. This fits comfortably alongside and enhances the existential and person-centred counselling modalities. Although nature need not explicitly feature in our sessions, I offer a number of ways we can incorporate nature into our sessions; from using natural materials in creative work and exploring metaphors in our indoor sessions, to walking therapy or holding our sessions at the beach.

Outdoor therapy (find out more)
Walking therapy (find out more)
I have a number of walking therapy routes we can use as the location for our sessions. Sometimes we need the expanse of the beach, sometimes the flow of the creek is what calls us, and sometimes we want the cocooning of the forest.

 

I am an accredited member of the National Counselling Society and abide by their Code of Ethics.