About Me

Hi I’m Sammie Flook & welcome to The Core Health.

My business evolved from the journey of my own experiences. As a teen I went from being a confident, care free teen, to experiencing extreme anxiety, disconnect with my body and food and essentially lost my lust for life that I once had, up until my early twenties.

That was until, like many clients that make their journey to their sessions with me, I got to a point where I was ready to change, to feel other than what I did, to start to feel joy, flexibility and greater freedom within myself and my day to day life.

This lead me on a journey of self discovery and rediscovery at that.

I’ve always had a passion of helping people from a young age, my mum often says that from when I was about 5 years old, I would take my friends aside when ever they were sad and “sort it out”. In terms of, let’s talk about it, what can we do about this, how can I support you? And here we are today.

Learning to heal my relationship with my mind, body and food lead me to study coaching and a diploma in nutrition, which is where I started my Instagram page nearly 9 years ago now, to share my recipes, mindful tips & life reflections I was navigating. From here I went on to do my Mindfulness Meditation course, from here I saw that a practical approach, offered me the greatest change, as, as I know now. For us to experience differently, we must learn to do differently.

8 years on from here I am a now qualified Strategic Psychotherapist & Hypnotherapist. My sessions today focus on a practical approach to therapy.

Helping you understand yourself and address issues by identifying and altering patterns in your behaviour, through strategic tools & techniques. I focus on teaching you “how” to manage experiences rather than avoiding them, guiding you to move from your current state to your desired state. This includes learning “how to”:

- Emotionally regulate to be able to express your needs and feelings with yourself and others

- Take action to the goals that you’re avoiding or teaching you how to navigate difficult situations you may be facing 

- Reconnect with your body and make beneficial decisions for your health & wellbeing

- Build boundaries in relationships and feel greater confidence within yourself & your own needs.

Using mindfulness, strategic psychotherapy, clinical hypnotherapy, and cognitive coaching tools, I aim to empower you to make and sustain positive changes, fostering self-confidence, independence, and effectiveness in all areas of your life.

And to most of all access a greater sense of presence, joy, content and ease in your life once more.

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

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 grateful to be able to do the work that I do each and everyday and I hope to continue to support and inspire those, to see their true capacity & their contribution to the whole.

Lots of love, Sammie x

Want to work with me?

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