Most relationships start with a physical attraction. This may have changed a bit with online dating becoming the most common way to meet. However, fo…

Traditionally, counselling sessions are conducted face-to-face in safe surroundings. Sessions are confidential and free of interruptions. Predictabil…

Feelings of loneliness can feel apparent and sometimes frightening during the last months of pregnancy at the best of times, and especially for new M…

If you have a dependency on alcohol, you are not alone, as over half a million people in England are dependent drinkers. It is the biggest risk facto…

In order to help with the symptoms of trauma, we need to think of the trauma response as being an accelerator. I often remind my clients that trauma…

Life has not taken a day off. In the storm of COVID-19, in the frenzy of daily updates, media reports, hand washing, social distancing, and watching…

In the present distressing uncertainties, we are all trying to make difficult decisions about what to do to make the best of whatever, sometimes cata…

What better occasion than quarantine to use our precious time for a little (or not so little) reflection on ourselves, new awareness and personal gro…

Why dreams are important Dreams, mostly discarded, maddening in their surreal content, often forgotten immediately when we wake, used in common lang…

One thing I have been hearing a lot lately is that people are struggling with sleep. Clients are reporting that they are having vivid dreams, nightma…

Of all the losses which accompany COVID-19, bereavement is probably the most challenging. Current social distancing rules and registrations around fu…

“All the world’s a stage”There will be three types of people that read this article. The first type, who will know straight away what I’m talking abo…