{"id":79870,"date":"2025-08-20T09:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T09:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/79870\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T09:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T09:55:08","slug":"dorset-psychotherapist-named-psychotherapist-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/79870\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorset psychotherapist named Psychotherapist of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Lisa Skeffington, founder of Empowered Momentum, has been recognised for her work with women struggling with imposter syndrome, anxiety and burnout.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Her personal experiences of domestic violence and the resulting trauma have fuelled her 27-year career, helping women reclaim their lives.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This year, she launched the Empowered Momentum Community, a safe space for women and their families seeking actionable help, often missing from traditional therapies.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ms Skeffington runs a free monthly online event, &#8216;From Anxious to Empowered LIVE,&#8217; and has designed a three-tier membership system to cater to varying needs.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She said: &#8220;I\u2019m passionate about empowering these women to step into the truth of who they are.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;When they embrace their self-worth and remove the mask of outward success, they unlock a power and freedom within themselves they doubted was ever possible.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ms Skeffington combines psychodynamic psychotherapy, advanced hypnotherapy and pragmatic mentoring, offering a different approach to healing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She also provides workplace wellness initiatives, including coastal escapes and Bloom Beyond the Mask, an event combining floristry and therapy.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Her six-month mentoring programme, Empowered and Unmasked &#8211; Without Excuse or Apology, aims to help women heal emotionally, overcome anxiety and communicate effectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lisa Skeffington, founder of Empowered Momentum, has been recognised for her work with women struggling with imposter syndrome,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[102,1906,6623,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-79870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-mentalhealth","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}