GPs in London, as in the rest of the country are encouraged to refer patients with symptoms of anxiety or depression, for counselling under the Impro…

Do you like yourself? Are you someone who deserves happiness? If you find these questions hard perhaps you suffer from low self-esteem. Self-esteem i…

I have written a collection of therapeutic short stories, which example some of the conscious and unconscious beliefs and concerns people can have ab…

One of the common themes in couple counselling is each partner complaining about behaviour in the other that they find really hard to deal with. “If…

Depression is a common experience in the Western world today.  Why is this?  There are a combination of reasons.  These include an over-reliance on m…

 “I can’t cope”…”I’ll never get through this” ….”I can’t bear the pain”…”I can’t live without him/her!” We hear these words every day, endlessly gush…

The presence of two or more distinct identities or personality states (each with its own relatively enduring pattern of perceiving, relating to, and…

Depression is one of the most common reasons why people find a counsellor and for many depression is experienced as a result of a relationship break-…

People often say nowadays “Don’t bottle up your feelings! It’s healthy to let them out.” But other people say that getting angry is rude and uncivil…

Insanity it is said is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. So often as a counsellor, I find this to be true. Clients…

[This is part of a collection of therapeutic short life stories I have written]The flower sat pondering when the sun would come out. She didn’t mind…

The predominant medical view is that depression is a mental disorder and anti depressants and psychotherapy maybe prescribed to manage it. Depressio…