Perhaps you have just left treatment, along with a continued plan for recovery that seems rather lightweight in the wake of peer support from which y…

As people, we seem to live by the habits we form, and often these help to form structure in our daily lives. Habits do sometimes become dangerous, ho…

The dictionary describes procrastination as “the action of delaying or postponing something”. Often procrastination is the cause of fear; there coul…

This second book helps you to understand the complexities and enabling ways to work with insecurity in our lives and our clients' lives. It focuses o…

This is a type of addiction that is not as widely known but can still be as debilitating as other high profile addictions. Ultimately, the addiction…

Guest writer, Jasmine Mills, tells us what it’s like to be a teenager experiencing mental health problems.

In my birth family, I was brought up to believe that there was only one way to think; one way to react to something. When, at eleven, I was sent to a…

Our identity is extremely important because it informs how we see ourselves as individuals, how we relate with other people and how we view the world…

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer’. I remember coming across Albert Camus’ words many years ago and thinki…

Stress, pressure and roles Where did it go wrong? Well, it can be for many different reasons, but there are usually common themes. We live in a fast…

I’m 3 months into starting my private practice as a Transactional Analysis Practitioner – a counsellor to anyone else. Life feels good. Still challen…

How can children learn to feel more confident about themselves and believe that they can have an effect on the world? How can children be more assert…