Risks for teenagers are changing, could technology be to blame?

Have you ever walked into a room where there are other people and instantly felt peculiar? Anxious, perhaps, or angry when you‘d been fine just momen…

What is anxiety? First of all, it is important to be aware that anxiety is a normal response to what is happening around us. In other words, it is w…

The workplace is one area of our lives where it seems we are unable to avoid conflict. There is conflict at many levels. There is the competing roles…

Questioning sexuality is something often associated with teenagers; and of course this can indeed be the case. Bringing confusion and doubt into what…

We know that in order to solve a problem we need problem-solving skills. Intuitively most people are aware of the steps that they need to take when f…

As children, we experience many messages designed to tell us that emotional states are either positive or negative. 'Positive' emotions such as happi…

I can't stand the way he eats an apple! Many people come to counselling and psychotherapy to try to resolve difficulties with relationship. Sometime…

Self-harm can be troubling for parents to witness. It can also be bewildering, frightening and alarming. The parents of many of the children/young pe…

Recently the Telegraph and now Vanity Fair launched a serious critique of what the ‘Tinder’ generation means for us. They were asking if we have lost…

A year ago we heard the tragic news of Robin Williams’ death. Since then, more celebrities have started to reveal their experiences with mental healt…

Many of the people I have worked with have been diagnosed with depression by their GP, and are taking medication as a consequence. Often this will he…