So you fall in love, engage in a committed relationship, marry after courtship, buy a home, have children, manage your careers, watch your children g…

As counsellors, it is helpful to be aware of "Maslow’s Hierarchy of Human Needs", especially the basic physiological need. A person needs to be fed,…

Our mind likes to take short cuts while processing information so we don't have to analyse everything every time; we can simply take for granted that…

This is just to help you get a clearer picture of what counselling is all about. First of all, each counsellor is different just like the people we m…

It has been said that love is a feeling, marriage is a contract, and relationships are work. Many have found a great deal of wisdom in this truism. T…

The primary root of conflicts, in intimate relationships, is the fear associated with the loss of one's self or, to put it simpler, the fear associat…

It is so very hard to be objective about what is going on within our own family as we are caught up in the middle of it. Trying to think about the va…

Working experientially is to be an advocate for that which is unspoken, difficult to formulate or is seeking expression in one's experience. One of t…

All kinds of pressures can seem to pile up on men in their 50s. Let’s start with work: in the current economic climate, there’s an ever-present threa…

ANXIETY is something most people experience from time to time and is recognised as a normal response to situations that we perceive to be threatening…

That’s pretty much the definition of courage – doing something in spite of being terrified by it. It’s also the title of a book on courage by Susan J…

Counsellor Graeme Orr explains anger as an emotion, including when it becomes an issue and how to control it.