Clowns paint masks on their faces to show if they are happy or sad. Many people live their lives wearing a ‘mask’ acting the person they think that t…

Often the fears that can arise when thinking about going to see a counsellor is about *who are they*what will they be like*will they tell me what to…

John Bowby(1980) recognized the significance of the way we relate to others and he believed that our relationship to early caregivers can create a te…

A common issue for men entering therapy is a sense of isolation – from other people but also from their deeper selves. The issue they come to therap…

When we feel pain we usually want it to go away, want to ‘get rid of it’. Paradoxically, this movement of pushing the pain away, refusing to embrace…

You are not alone if you are suffering from unemployment stress, signing on at a job centre and applying for job after job can have a huge effect on…

Most therapists could draw up a list of ten books such as this.  Each would be different and all I can do is give my own personal list. The following…

Spring can be the time of fresh starts, after a long drawn out winter. Getting fit for the summer to cutting down on alcohol consumption, taking up a…

The nature and purpose of counselling is to provide a non-judgemental, confidential, pressure free space in which people can freely explore their tho…

Death is the universal constant which connects us all, wealth or poor, famous or unknown. Yet dealing with death seems a unique process to us all. Gr…

There is a lot of noise around the issue of gay marriages and when I read a number of prominent comments by religious leaders I felt that their descr…

In my work with people battling obesity, during nearly 20 years of practice, it never ceases to amaze me how most people are ‘brain washed’ into thin…