About Me


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Meet Sammie

Hi I’m Sammie Flook, I am a Strategic Psychotherapist, Coach, Mindfulness Practitioner and Clinical Hypnotherapist.

I started The Core Health when I was 20, as a page to then share my whole-food recipes, tips and advice about body image and food relationship. And now nearly 10 years on, has flourished into a multi facetted business of 1;1 teen and adult consultations, programs, retreats and workshops that help people to learn the tools to build more supportive habits and behaviours and to learn the tools to initiate effective and positive change in all areas of their lives.

My sessions focus on a practical, strategic approach that helps you to gain a greater understanding of yourself, your emotions and the patterns that you run, that create the presenting “problems” in your day to day life.
I combine Mindfulness practices, Strategic Psychotherapy Techniques, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Coaching tools to help you to build the skills to confidently self-manage times of discomfort and uncertainty with clarity, openness and ease, supporting you to understand just how capable and resourceful you are in making the changes you wish to make in all areas of your life.

Navigating my own journey with my body, food, relationships and mental health as a teen, my journey down this path started relatively early and I learnt, specifically for myself that a practical approach, in addition to talk therapy created such immense shifts and positive changes in my life. From a very young age, I have always loved to help and support others and have always had a deep interest in humans, their stories and their ability to grow from ambiguity, when we learn to listen to our feelings and understand “how” to tackle our adversities.

My aim is to build a realistic starting point for you to work through areas of discomfort and challenge, adding simple tailored tasks in and out of your sessions, that focus on utilising all of your skills and gifts found within your experiences, that you may not currently be able to see. Guiding you to break down the patterns and beliefs that keep you stuck in where you no longer wish to be.

Specifically with my teen program, something very close to my heart, I wanted to create an offering that I wish I had throughout high school and beyond. Learning the skills to regulate our feelings, communicate our needs within all relationships, understand self responsibility, create self respecting boundaries and the skills to navigate life’s ever changing landscape both internally and externally, creates a sense of self like nothing else, especially at a young age and is something no matter what age we are, we all have the capacity to do.


As I say to my clients; “It’s not up to me to choose or decide what is best for you, that’s not my job. My job is to offer you the tools and skills to help you to think, choose and decide what is best for yourself and you have the capacity to do so”. We all do.

We find solutions to our presenting problems in life when we understand the patterns that create them. As everything we do in life, whether it be problematic or helpful has a pattern that can be learnt from, continued with or changed. So to experience differently we need to start doing differently and my job is to help you with the “HOW” of how to get started and get you from here to where and who you want to be, unfolding The Core of You.

My sessions focus supporting the following experiences;

Anxiety & Stress management

Emotional Eating & Body Image

Confidence & Self Esteem

OCB behaviours

Communication/ Relationship support

Perfectionism/ Procrastination

General life support and direction

We can essentially target any experience that you may be navigating.

Qualifications

Certified Nutrition and Well-being Coach

Diploma in Strategic Psychotherapy & Clinical Hypnotherapy
- Trauma informed & Counselling

Certified Mindfulness Practitioner

Reiki Level 3 for Emotional Well-being

I am so incredibly proud and grateful to do the work that I do, to meet each individual along their journey, where ever they may be and to support them in seeing how truly capable they are in making the changes they wish to make and most importantly accessing greater presence, joy and confidence within themselves.

Lots of love, Sammie x

For further information on my programs, please click the link below.


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Client Testimonial:

“Sammie’s session were absolutely fantastic and they have helped me in multiple ways. I feel like my stress management, overwhelm and anxiety has improved ten fold. I am now able to redirect unhelpful thinking patterns and actions to ones that are more beneficial and nourishing to me. I am able to focus on my breath when moments of anxiety arise. Sammie taught me to recognise unhelpful thoughts and emotions as fleeting and that I do not have to attach onto them and accept them as truth. She was able to guide me to be able to replace such thoughts with ones that are more confidently aligned and uplift me”

Renee M Client

Before approaching Sammie, I had a difficult/negative mindset towards myself. I was always prioritising others before myself and depleting myself of any joy. The sad part is, I didn't even realise it at the time. Sammie has made me realise the importance of choosing joy over fear, and asking me key questions to then ask myself - are my actions going to nourish me or deplete me?

I started to see and notice more through my everyday life & thoughts that all that I do was out of fear, and many of the things that I am adamant of have led me to depletion.

Through time and small steps, Sammie has helped me nourish my mind and give my approaches to things a different meaning. Instead of looking at a glass as half empty or half full, it's refillable. The possibilities are endless if you and your mind allow it. So thank you Sammie. You have changed my life.

Koko D Client
 

Working with Sammie felt immediately easy, she made me feel understood and like there was nothing too big or too small to talk about. During this journey I have learnt to find the little moments in every day that I make mine and I have defined what makes me, me again! Finding joy and space to play as an adult in life now takes priority.

Through Sammie's kind and caring words of guidance and wisdom, I finally feel as though I have let go of the pressures of to do lists in order to have a feeling of completeness. I now feel I approach achieving balance in my life with kindness and respect. Through our work together Sammie has helped me to understand balance is something of an ever changing equation that needs to be flexible from day to day.

Kate P Client