We have all heard phrases like he wears his heart on his sleeve but the reality is that we spend a great deal of time suppressing our feelings. In ma…

In his recent poem, ‘Sentenced to Life’, Clive James speaks of how his experience of the advanced stage of terminal leukaemia and emphysema has opene…

Anxiety is a normal and everyday experience and yet it is almost universally viewed as problematic. The majority of people who go to see their doctor…

New research finds that first-time mothers are at risk of developing symptoms of depression.

Before I started working with people who self-harm I could not reconcile in me the possibility that someone who already suffers greatly emotionally c…

I’ve been reflecting this week on the power of kindness. Many times I sit with clients who seem to have a huge capacity to care, and do much for rela…

Over the years I have heard much about the proverbial, ‘empty nest’ and the feelings and emotions surrounding it, but not until recently when experie…

In aid of Dementia Awareness Week we discuss the benefits of talking therapies for those living with dementia.

It’s a tough world out there. Sometimes though, our worst critics are not our friends or our family, it is us. We are often quick to notice what has…

“The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to the unconscious activities of the mind”                                           Sigmund Freud,…

I believe that most of us can relate to the stress involved in taking exams, and it is the lucky few who say that they enjoy the process (yes, they d…

Some people feel more than others. They are often told - spoken and unspoken - that they are ‘too much’, ‘too intense’, ‘too sensitive’, ‘too emotion…