We all have days when the negative thoughts seem to pour in at our door. Our only defence is our self-belief and self-confidence. Yet often when we f…

Stanley Milgram (1963) carried out a famous piece of research that would be considered unethical today. Actors pretended to receive electric shocks w…

What can you say to your child when “everything will be OK!” is not enough?

It seems that the most frequent reason we delay or hesitate seeing a counsellor or a psychotherapist is because we refuse to admit that we have emoti…

A recent report from the services network Deloitte suggests that if you check your phone a lot during the day then you are not alone. But does it wor…

We may not realise it, but many problematic behaviours arise from the way we cope with feeling not good enough. We all feel this way at times and can…

For many people coming to therapy for the first time, there is often an important question on their minds “How can talking about my past change the w…

Our mind and our thoughts are not always under our complete rational control, even if we would like them to be. We can’t always decide rationally whi…

An invitation to explore how you feel can lead to a dilemma. Acknowledging and naming feelings is risky. It inevitably opens a door to a range of iss…

I have an interest in the split between our inner and outer worlds, and the popularity of everything that is physical. The things I am talking about…

Relationships are not easy. From the day we are born we need to learn - sometimes painfully - how we get on with those around us and get our emotiona…

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