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,…

In a relationship conflict happens, it can be about small things or important things. It might be a specific event like an affair or it might be a lo…

What is EFT? EFT is a form of Energy Psychology. It is often referred to as ‘tapping therapy’ as the process involves gently tapping on meridian ene…

Volcanic feelings of love and hate are part of being a parent: it's dangerous to pretend otherwise. A playground on a winter’s day. A father pushes…

Insomnia can be a tricky one. Many of us seem to suffer from it nowadays and there is no one simple cure for it. I think it depends on the person and…

Playing together is a wonderful way to connect with and enjoy our children, and it is also essential to their emotional health. Play is a window int…

Many people coming to counselling are conflicted by different seemingly incompatible feelings. People talk of knowing cognitively what to do but that…

We read that good relationships can improve life expectancy; they certainly improve the quality of our lives. Many people talk in therapy of the posi…

Shame is often associated with exposure, but exposure of a certain kind. We feel exposed when we meet a negative response from others, or when we fai…