‘I really can’t remember much about my childhood...it was fine,you know? Happy childhood...ummm...the usual things...ummmm...what do you want to know…

Work and StressFeeling stressed at work could be an indication of what's not happening outside the workplace. Ask yourself how are you engaging with…

There are many ways in which technology benefits us. It has a considerable potential to help our efforts to improve our self-confidence and self-este…

Beginnings can be very difficult. If things happen too fast at the start, it may scare us away. If it's too slow, we may run out of patience. If it's…

The number of high profile people resigning, being arrested, being made unemployed and looking shameful is increasing by the day. As the house of car…

An examination of the differences between private and NHS counselling practice. I recently had the opportunity of experiencing at first hand the hug…

When you are feeling depressed because of a crisis in your personal life, the last thing you may be thinking about is the bad news currently filling…

­When thinking of the term ‘mid – life’ it is usually associated with the term ‘mid- life crises’, a period ranging from 35 – 50 when we reconsider o…

This is an unusual phrase, Spiritual Toxicity (or Spiritual Abuse) which I first read about 15 years ago in Pia Melody's, Facing Codependence, (1989,…

One of the positive dialogues that cropped up following the riots is the ever present role of social media. Whilst it has many positive elements ther…

Definition of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)OCD is classified as one of the anxiety disorders and is defined as someone suffering from either ex…

‘The moody blues’, ‘melancholia’, ‘the black dog’, ‘down in the dumps’, ‘feeling gloomy’, ‘the blue funk’; we have so many different ways to describe…