Anxiety makes you on edge, worried and unable to relax and be at ease. You feel a constant need for re-assurance that things are, will be or have bee…

The health service is quoted (The Times Monday January 6th 2014) as saying that postnatal depression is more common than many people realise and case…

Do you look at your smart phone first thing when you wake up? How many times do you feel jealous when you read what one of your friends is doing? Do…

Loss or release? What's the difference I hear you ask, and does it really matter? After all as long as the weight has gone who cares how it went? It…

One day, during a weekend residential training in person-centred psychotherapy, I felt deeply moved by what a facilitator said in response to a dilem…

We are all born originals – why is it so many of us die copies? We all have a picture of the sort of person that we are, and this image is at the ve…

The tradition at New Year is to make resolutions that are intended to change our lives for the better. However, the timing isn’t always good, as all…

Deciding to leave your partner when you have children together is a huge decision, and you will have thought very hard before taking such a step. For…

Anxiety, excitement and anger are the feelings associated with the production of adrenaline, cortisol and other hormones that your body needs to help…

First of all, none of us can ‘do’ mindfulness. We may, however, benefit from mindfulness by practising non-doing. Mindfulness' is a currently a hot t…

We tend to think about anger as something destructive, and of course it can well be. When we are violent or abusive, bullying or intimidating, then t…

The loss of a relationship is one of the most difficult things that we may have to come to terms with, because it is not just the loss of a partner,…