Have you felt like you have been struggling with a particular issue for many years? Have you been skirting around it? Or, have you been trying to mak…

Achieving good relationships is difficult. Why shouldn't it be? Most everything else worthwhile achieving in life is.Remember when you started out le…

Have you tried putting “online counsellor” into a search engine like Google? Chances are you will find hundreds of thousands of counsellors with webs…

In most relationships the sexual drive or libido is different in the partners. Of course, often when we start a relationship it feels like it will la…

We come into the world alone although accompanied by our mother, and it is her first gaze into our eyes that is so important. Our attachment is, in p…

Reflecting on past cases in counselling, anger seems to be a reoccurring issue in couple relationships. It appears in many forms of behaviour and som…

Many people come to therapy because they are feeling that something is missing from their lives. This ‘something’ may be hard to describe, but that d…

Medics increasingly stress the negative effects of excess weight, inactivity and unhealthy lifestyles on our physical health, noting the clear links…

After fifty years of predominance of behaviourism and cognitive psychology, the tide is now turning back to motivation and emotion A paradigm shift…

Counsellors sometimes find an individual in their consulting room who has been ‘sent’ by their partner to sort themselves out so that the relationshi…

My life was ripped apart. My world was tipped upside down, in confusion disbelief.  Betrayal, hurt, heart torn out, our life shattered; all of these…

Lovers strolling hand in hand along a sandy beach; smiley children playing in turquoise swimming pools; intimate, candlelit dinners for two … Picture…