“Christmas is a difficult time of year for me and I always dread it. Always feeling the pressure to eat food in front of friends and family who won’t…

A brief look at the historical significance of New Year The importance of the New Year, and its associated celebrations and rituals have been celebr…

The word “depression” is vastly used in our day-to-day language; many people use it to refer to some feelings that - if occasional - are a normal par…

What is anxiety? Anxiety can take many forms. Anxiety can be acute and experienced in short bursts. It can also be experienced as the result of ongo…

Trauma occurs when horrendous events happen and victims of those atrocities are left with unspeakable memories that they can’t forget, yet can’t quit…

When the physical, emotional and bodily remembered memories of sexual abuse are kept secret, a tension of conflict exists within the survivor. This i…

When one person in the relationship cheats, sexts, watches porn, plays away, commits adultery, it doesn’t have to mean the end of the relationship. T…

At the party she met a guy, they started chatting and soon realised they had a lot in common. This felt so good to find someone who understood her wo…

As a children's and young people's counsellor, this seems to be a question that is often asked (and probably more often thought) by parents who bring…

At this time of year, we’re bombarded with messages about change, mostly about changing our bodies, our appetites and our activities. Most of these a…

We have reached that time of year when millions of people will decide to take action about one or more aspects of their lives in the belief that, for…

This will be a follow-up to another article I wrote called ‘The rise of the physical’ (http://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/counsellor-articles/th…