The NSPCC report: how safe are our children (2015) highlights something of the prevalence and incidence of childhood sexual abuse. The report suggest…

College and university courses are challenging. They’re meant to be. As the demands of the course stretch and grow the students, anything lying just…

Tonight a BBC documentary will be looking at the inner workings of National Family Mediation services.

In the UK men are at more risk of suicide than women; the statistics speak for themselves – three times as many men die at their own hand each year t…

A good couples counsellor would work with the relationship and the couple within it. When do we begin to learn about relationships? Although not con…

Toxic shame has been associated with depression, addiction, suicide, aggression, bullying and eating disorders.  What is shame? It is normal to hav…

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arth…

Have you heard that it takes three weeks to break a habit? That the hardest part of giving something up is the first three days, and then the rest is…

Anger is one of the most difficult - and often frightening - emotions to manage in a relationship. At one end of the anger spectrum, couples may be o…

In working with emotionally intense, sensitive and gifted individuals, it is important to be cautious of the confines of categories and diagnoses. Fa…

Psychiatrist Robert Leahy begins one of his books on anxiety and worry asking the readers quite a particular question: if you had to explain to a mar…

What I neverlearnedfrom my motherwas thatjust becausesomeone desires youdoesnot mean they value you.desire is the kind of thing thateats youandleaves…