People often seek emotional support because they are feeling varying degrees of anxiety or stress or anger or panic or depression or any combination…

So often when we have disordered eating patterns we become estranged from our bodily sensations – or they become something we seek to conquer and sup…

How often do we hear the refrain ‘Oh, don’t be such a child’? Or show our contempt for someone by labelling them as childish?  Our society seems to t…

There are several links between counselling and Buddhist practice. One of them is the aspiration to offer genuine hospitality. A counsellor makes roo…

Breathwork Therapy is an experiential approach which enables people to get in touch with their own spontaneous healing processes by unblocking the en…

GPs in London, as in the rest of the country are encouraged to refer patients with symptoms of anxiety or depression, for counselling under the Impro…

Do you like yourself? Are you someone who deserves happiness? If you find these questions hard perhaps you suffer from low self-esteem. Self-esteem i…

I have written a collection of therapeutic short stories, which example some of the conscious and unconscious beliefs and concerns people can have ab…

One of the common themes in couple counselling is each partner complaining about behaviour in the other that they find really hard to deal with. “If…

Depression is a common experience in the Western world today.  Why is this?  There are a combination of reasons.  These include an over-reliance on m…

 “I can’t cope”…”I’ll never get through this” ….”I can’t bear the pain”…”I can’t live without him/her!” We hear these words every day, endlessly gush…

The presence of two or more distinct identities or personality states (each with its own relatively enduring pattern of perceiving, relating to, and…