This article considers how the story line and characters from Alice in Wonderland can be used within the counselling room to enable clients to explor…

I recently heard that in relationships that all arguments, tensions and breakdowns are based on one thing’ Do I Matter to You?’ The western world se…

According to Emery (1992) ‘Intimacy and power are argued to be the basic dimensions around which relationships are structured’. Power struggles betwe…

After conflict one may experience guilt, the result of statements or actions of experiencing guilt may be closely flowed by feelings of shame, which…

One of my favourite questions when working with clients is: "If you were looking back on this event 5 years from now, what would you think?"The reaso…

Hitting a crisis point in your life can be scary. The idea of counselling can be a daunting one, often surrounded by the mystery of what to expect.…

According to the Health Protection Agency, an estimated 86,500 people in the UK are currently living with HIV, 28,000 of them in London. The number o…

Quite some time ago now, a colleague had cause to quote to me "If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got". That cer…

Talk About It Being honest and real with each other is a scary thing, yet it's the way to go. It's important to keep a "clean heart" towards each…

The most difficult aspect of working with any relationship breakdown are the client’s feelings of love lost, whether it is denied, spurned, or just t…

There’s no getting away from the fact that when times are bad, we often feel bad too. Research by numerous medical journals such as The Lancet (July…

Everyone who comes to therapy hopes for change.  This change can take various forms -sometimes initially it can be about wishing others would change,…