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Louisa Thomas

@louisamthomas.bsky.social
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Child, Educational & Community Psychologist IFS Therapist Based in Hampshire, UK She/her 🏳️‍🌈 Psychology, Musings & Inspiration 🦋

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Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Come join us! I love working in this city and being part of our lovely, ethical, passionate EP team ❤️‍🔥 #edpsychs
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Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
One of the biggest cultural burdens is the message that suppression of emotion is a strength. Most people don’t believe this consciously, and yet we still have parts that work to avoid or hide our feelings. The irony in this process is that we accidentally cut ourselves off from pleasure and joy.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
daaaamn london
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Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
‘Normal’ is a social construct of the flimsiest kind. The concept serves to shame and fuel comparison. It does not benefit normal people because there are no normal people. They do not exist.
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For the Love of Missy @missybbbobtail.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Meow'd until everyone was awake. Then went back to sleep after eating. **Stay toxic 🐈
Chonky rabbit bobtail cat sleeping on the bed in a sunbeam
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
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Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
“If you learned through being lectured at, you’re going to do that with yourself, your parts, and with clients. But if somebody helped you trust your own Self, you’re going to help your client trust their own Self.” - Richard Schwartz - #IFS
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MFCarter @mfcarter.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Day 3 of training our wonderful Portsmouth ELSAs - Lego Therapy one of the tools in their toolbox for supporting communication and regulation 🌟
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Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
“The wellness industry cannot sell a solution for ecological collapse. There is no supplement for late-stage capitalism. No app for intergenerational wounds..So these collective realities get reframed as individual pathology. Your accurate response to an insane world becomes your disorder to manage”
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Carrying What Was Never Ours Alone
The word trauma has been stolen, stripped, and sold back to us.
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Portsmouth Educational Psychology Service @portsmouthepteam.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Talking team wellbeing with some wonderful input about the PERMA model from Liz and Issy, following their attendance at the Positivitea conference in January @positivitea-eps.bsky.social @fionacoley.bsky.social 🌱✨
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Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
‘The somatic literature speaks of “the body” as if bodies aren’t raced, classed, gendered in ways that produce different conditions and therefore different shapes. None of this can be “released.” The architecture isn’t historical artifact—it’s current construction, being reinforced daily…’
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What If Nothing Is 'Stuck' In Your Body
On shape, survival, and the politics of what lives in women's bodies
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Professor Vivian Hill @vivianedpsy.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Welcome news today that the government is investing in expanding the EP workforce to enable proactive early intervention support👇🏻 www.tes.com/magazine/new... #EdPsychs
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DfE commits £26m to recruit more educational psychologists
Funding for hundreds more educational psychologists announced amid concerns that specialists are spending too much time on admin rather than supporting children
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Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
To be taught by these two legends..!
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Lara Ianuzzi @laraianuzzi.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Bearing Witness #monoprint Acrylic on Paper #art #printmaking
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Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Finally a little sanity and justice 🙏🏼🇵🇸
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UK Palestine Action ban ruled unlawful, in humiliating blow for ministers
Thousands arrested for supporting group since proscription are now in legal limbo as Mahmood says she will appeal
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Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Good parenting involves Self-parenting - as eloquently described here by Covey (1989)
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arnaerr 🦭⭑。 @arnaerr.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
"Shouldn't have wished to live in more interesting times" #bg3 #baldursgate3 #art
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Dr Pete Olusoga @dr-peter-olusoga.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
We kind of SHOULD be overwhelmed right now! There's a lot of overwhelming stuff going on, so if you're struggling with that, it's not a YOU problem... Continued below...
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
It is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.
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Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
👏👏👏
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Stormzy calls reading a ‘superpower’ as he backs accessible books campaign
The musician is championing the annual Quick Reads initiative, which will release six short, digestible titles for ‘nonreaders and lapsed readers’ in April for £1 each
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DakiniSpirit @dakinispirit.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
"All conditioned things are impermanent. When one sees this with wisdom, one grows tired of suffering - this is the way to purity" The Dhammapada
An old tree amidst trees in winter blue starry sky
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Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
It takes an estimated 400 repetitions to learn something thru traditional classroom methods but only 10-20 times to learn through “dedicated play” (Purvis). We desperately need more capacity and space for play, choice and creativity in our classrooms (and wider world)
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Dr Dan O'Hare @edpsydan.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
We're in a polycrisis that threatens the conditions that sustain human life and wellbeing. We must decide, as educational psychologists, not IF, but HOW we will adapt. Silence is no longer tenable and incrementalism is not sufficient #edpsychs #climatecrisis www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
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Educational psychology within the polycrisis | BPS
Dr Dan O’Hare and Dr Louise Edgington call for commitment and action.
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Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Interest-based curiosity is the doorway that leads us out of anxiety and into creativity, which helps us to solve problems in practical ways (Beck, 2024)
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Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Culture often pushes us towards deprivation- over interest curiosity, unless our interests conveniently fit the culture. The more we drop our interest curiosity, and pick up deprivation curiosity, the more we’ll unquestioningly support the social hierarchy and ignore its impacts to our natures…
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Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Litman (2005) identified two types of curiosity; the first, ‘deprivation curiosity’ is a worried need to know, stemming from lack of information about how to feel safe (e.g., how to get enough money to survive), and the second ‘interest curiosity,’ comes from the innate sense of wanting to know.
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Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
We spend so much time and energy on staying regulated, becoming calm, as if that is the goal. To have just enough calm to cope, just enough energy for performing. Who would we be if calm was a stepping stone we jumped from? Calm not as destination but necessary prerequisite for creativity and play.
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Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Wise words as always from Ailey Joley. Here’s to less time consuming and more time organising, creating, resting and inhabiting our lives 💖✨
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Portsmouth Educational Psychology Service @portsmouthepteam.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Snapshot of our ‘dream’ as part of our anti-discriminatory practice PATH that we did as part of our EP Team Day last week…a very fruitful day and we’re taking our first steps this week. We love a PATH! ✨ #edpsychs
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Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Really moving day so far. Bringing some much needed realisations and intentions for action within me and my colleagues who are attending. Thank you @eps4change.bsky.social
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Dr Pete Olusoga @dr-peter-olusoga.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
As we approach the New Year and are being bombarded with ads that promise life changing new habits in 21 days (for a subscription package of course!) here's a little PSA for you. Happy New Year! 🎇 #newyear #happynewyear #newyearnewgoals #motivation
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Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
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Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
What we call ‘normal’ is a chaotic version of survival mode, and it’s not fun. So taking time to orient ourselves every single day, to retune ourselves to the creative and adventure modes of the game of life. Eurgh, Martha Beck - I love her ❤️
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Pippa TEP @pippatep.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
We are back again running our reflective spaces for Black and Global majority applicants. Eventbrite links will be up next week if you check back in soon. Drop us a line on our TEPICC socials if you have any questions #edpsychs please share!
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Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
People will not give you what you deserve. They will give you what they’re capable of giving, and their capacity is not a measure of your worth.
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🚀 Dr Fi Coley (The Ed Psych Coach) @fionacoley.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Eek! My first podcast appearance 👀 I strongly believe that #edpsychs deserve to enjoy their work. We spoke about ways to support EPs who may be feeling disillusioned, disconnected and/or isolated. Really hoping this sprinkles a little positivity and hope for any EPs feeling glum out there 🚀 💖 ✨
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Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Here’s to some brighter days heading our way ✨
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Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
So you can burn all of your words and live a life of quiet, Think ‘now I won’t be criticised, now I’m safe from violence’ But you’ll be at the funeral and have nothing to read, And goodness dies in silence, so I think you should speak. ❤️ ~~ Lucas Jones ~~
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Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
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Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
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KaiJen M(s) 🏵️🎉 @jenetmms.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
what if instead of stepping out of my comfort zone I step into an even comfier zone. perhaps take a nap in a large fluffy dinner roll.
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Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
IFS therapists are encouraged to develop a good relationship between their Self and Self-like parts (often ‘therapist parts’) who inevitably act as an agent of the status quo. In contrast, the Self is an agent of change and healing. Sweezy, 2017
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Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Play ❤️
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edpsy @edpsy.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
📋 New project page Anita and Ruth are working to develop a tool designed to promote refection on psychological safety, within supervision. To participate you can trial using the tool and then complete a survey. More info here: edpsy.org.uk/blog/2025/pr... #edpsychs #supervision
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Louisa Thomas @louisamthomas.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
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