Unsurprisingly, couples counselling is perhaps most about helping couples to fix their relationships. Most relationships, where both partners are wil…

Relationships have the allure of Heaven but sadly, often become Hell. This doesn't mean that the relationship is wrong, just that there are issues th…

As Dr Sue Johnson writes in her book 'Hold Me Tight', when two partners are in distress they tend to get stuck in some difficult patterns of dialogue…

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.Those who wish to sing always find a song.At the touch of a lover, everyone…

Postnatal Depression is a depressive illness, which affects between 10-15% of mothers and 1-3% of fathers. It can happen to any parent. Having a bab…

Often we hear people talk about ‘keeping a lid on old feelings’, and the fear of ‘taking the lid off the box’. Once out, like all the evils of the wo…

How are you feeling today? Has it been a good or bad day? Whichever you have had, much value can be gleaned from it; if we only had good days we wou…

Have you ever had an idea about something you'd like to do, say or be, only to find that as you start putting it into action you run out of steam, gi…

Talking through your problems with a therapist takes courage, and sometimes people wonder if it will make a real difference to their situation. The r…

Imagine you’re Cinderella. Gentleman reader, please forgive me for beginning with her rather than the Prince – he does come into this shortly. So, yo…

Most of us think of the famous (or infamous) Anglo-Saxon swear word as one of the most powerful words that anyone can say – although, of course, some…

[1]'Evie', a student counsellor, had recently joined the supervision group and had been given the agency’s assessment report for her first client. Sh…