Struggling with loss? Acknowledge your feelings, seek support, and have faith. These tips will guide you through healing and new beginnings.

Sorry to mislead you, but the honest truth is - you can’t. You cannot ‘deal’ with anyone other than yourself. The more you try and deal with them th…

We all have a sense of value about ourselves, a personal value. This reflects our overall sense of ourselves and is often referred to as our self-est…

Improving Individual Resilience Life is stressful. It is impossible to eliminate pressure, but stress occurs when the demands upon us outstrip our c…

Aim to be unhappy Freud’s aim with treatment was “to change misery into common unhappiness”. The suggestion is that it is normal to feel some unhappi…

I use the words 'therapy' and 'counselling' in this article as if they are roughly the same thing. The shorthand explanation for what can be differen…

Research methodology and how research findings can inform counselling practice For any profession to survive and develop, on-going research is neces…

Sue worked in a high powered job, she had worked there for many years, in a very stressful job. Sue was married with two ‘stroppy’ teenage children,…

We hoped that we had left the bully behind in the school playground. That most despised part of childhood where another child and their gang hurt you…

There are many things we can become addicted to. It could be alcohol or drugs, or it could be to certain behaviours such as social media, gambling on…

In our couple relationships, it is very easy to fall into habits of relating that restrict both of us. Over the years, without noticing, you and your…

Secrets and lies What place do secrets have in our lives? Are we good at keeping secrets? Do we need secrets? Do we keep secrets better as we get ol…