A counsellor looks at the link between childhood trauma and offending later in life.

A therapist explores how early experience can shape our needs and attachment styles in adult life

From the 1930s onwards psychoanalysis has seen a paradigmatic shift away from Freudian drive theory towards a relational perspective. The work of Fai…

Introduction Power is an implicit thread in the discourses that inform many aspects of our social and political life. Power relations are rarely equa…

There has been very little research on how the concept of emotional intelligence could relate to some of the overarching issues currently debated in…

In Client-Centred Therapy (Rogers 1951) and On Becoming a Person (Rogers 1961) Rogers refers in the process of personality change to a move from rigi…

Struggling with anxiety? In this article, we explore how therapy can help.

Positive thinking can have a very powerful affect, it can bring inner peace, better health, improved relationships and happiness. Believe it or not,…

It is often overlooked that the genesis of attachment theory is rooted in Bowlby’s interest in understanding the origins of delinquent behaviour in y…

Usually people come to therapy with some level of despair and lack of hope. Or they come with a certain awareness and discomfort of being involved in…

A psychotherapist explores how the use of metaphor can benefit clients in counselling.

This brief article explores some of the factors that are thought to account for successful outcomes in psychotherapy. It also looks at aspects of the…