The psychoanalyst Leslie Farber, had the interesting idea that anxiety was caused by willing that which cannot be willed (Farber distinguished betwee…

The Japanese have a tradition of starting something new when they hit sixty years old. It’s called kanreki. There is a special costume to celebrate t…

ABC... is a simple exercise which stops us being held prisoner by our own thoughts. I frequently hear clients saying ‘someone is making me anxious, o…

Does this ring a bell? You love your mum or dad, but it’s also tough being their child. Somehow, what you do never seems good enough. If you disagree…

As an 'addiction specialist' – and I put that in inverted commas not through any pompous pretence to claim to be what the tag describes, but rather t…

Having an understanding of anxiety will enable you to take control of yours. Comparing a bike tyre to anxiety increases our understanding of how anxi…

Any approach that minimises addiction as 'simply a bad choice', or 'a bad habit acquired through a lackadaisical couldn't care less attitude' is prof…

What is inner child therapy and how can it help?

Christmas time is often portrayed as a time to be jolly, a time for giving and a time for forgiveness. In reality, Christmas isn’t always a completel…

We interview the author/illustrator of ‘It’s All Absolutely Fine’.

The news media in the UK are currently full of revelations about child sexual abuse in the world of football. Many men in their forties and fifties a…

The vagus breath: To stimulate the para-sympathetic nervous system and help yourself to relax and let go of negative thinking. It has been said tha…