Many years ago, an acquaintance of mine made a remark about their domestic life: ‘I like rows. That’s when you get at the truth’. This comment, made…

Sometimes our daily routine is punctuated by moments where life appears to imitate art. Perhaps the most common example of this is when one party say…

Many times you behave in ways you don’t want to. You might react to people, say or do things you didn’t really mean, making impulsive decisions, and…

Yes, I said it! The thing that goes against most people's inner belief. It goes against what your friends, family, social media and a lot of people i…

Counselling is referred to by the medical profession as ‘talking therapy’, harking back to the Freudian ‘talking cure’ and, presumably, to distinguis…

All mental illnesses are surrounded by a lack of understanding as to what causes them and a lot of stigma and myths. One form of complex psychologica…

So alone She felt so drained, so desperate, so ashamed and alone. She did not want to be herself anymore but she had to be. She was stuck with herse…

Seminal therapist Carl Rogers once said, ‘The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change’. Many therapies - especia…

Therapy is a field with many contentions: what one school of therapy believes is the underlying source of mental distress is often viewed by competin…

Many of us know the pleasures of immersing ourselves in a fictional world, which seems more dramatic and coherent than the lives we lead. For us love…

Today, I'm talking SEX. When working with couples, sex should and will come up. In fact it should be talked about explicitly. We don't necessarily w…

When looking at our childhoods we can often miss pivotal clues as to how emotional neglect can contribute to later difficulties in adult life. As a s…