Deciding to go to University or Further Education is a big step and a serious commitment. It does not matter if you have just left school (and are wo…

In counselling as in everyday life, culture can be the main difference between people. This may include differences in religion, race, age, class, se…

The internet The internet may seem like an ever present effortless universe. In using the internet you may feel that you have control over your worl…

It is often reported that many counselling clients say that the most important and valued thing that they take from counselling is that they feel lis…

ITV This Morning programme (aired 25/3/13) compiled a survey declaring that 3/4 of the respondents experienced distress and a reluctance to recommenc…

Have you ever watched a school playground full of children playing, running about apparently lost in the sheer joy of physical movement and the fanta…

I find myself mesmerized by the apparent threads between the two. It appears on inspection that there is as an inexplicable link that whispers of an…

Why is it that we avoid doing the very things that we know will be good for us? It is simply a lack of discipline or is there some kind of pay-off fo…

Depression and anxiety can be overpowering affecting all areas of life. Sufferers often feel alone or isolation. Perhaps believe that that others wil…

Almost all states of health and disease result from interactions between individual and environmental factors (IOM, 2003), and suicide is perhaps an…

When you lose your job, it can feel like your world is falling apart. Critically, losing your job means losing financial stability and emotionally, a…

At the end of the 60s, Peter Berger and Thomas Luckman of the New School of Social Research in New York published The Social Construction of Reality,…