Through my work with adolescents marginalised and excluded from mainstream education, I have come to understand that certain language and behaviour a…

We explore seasonal affective disorder in the summer months, and how counselling may help.

We might define shame, as opposed to other emotions such as guilt, embarrassment, shyness and humiliation. The etymological meaning of the word is “t…

Phase orientated approaches to trauma can help demystify the process of trauma therapy. In this vein, they can help you feel as if you have some sens…

Non-binary people are a group that are particularly vulnerable to having negative experiences of counselling. Non-binary people commonly have negativ…

‘Surviving or thriving?’ - that was the slogan of this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week, held in May. It’s a good question. But it isn’t just some…

This morning I heard the phrase ‘history doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.’ It was a new idea to me, although it is sometimes attributed to M…

For many years, I struggled with the idea that counselling could be something that would be of value to me. For a large part of my working life, I wa…

The label of ‘attention seeker’ is one which is thrown around frequently and pejoratively in the modern day. Used to insult, degrade and demean, it c…

No matter how big and strong, we could all use a little help sometimes. We don’t ever know all there is to know, we certainly don’t expect that of ot…

Are you in a relationship with a problem gambler who is struggling to stop gambling? Or is there a family member who has been adding to debts by comp…

We have all seen the couples dressed almost exactly the same, holding hands in busy public areas, leaving others to navigate around them when they wi…