Life is a little quieter at the moment in the aftermath of the Olympics. The Paralympics are drawing crowds and attention but the general spirit of j…

Betrayal is a word of hyper significance and as such offers pain and suffering to all on the receiving end of it - that includes most if not all of u…

“The opposite of loneliness, it's not togetherness. It is intimacy.” Richard Bach “I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the g…

The novelist E M Forster once said: ‘How do I know what I think, until I hear what I say?’ Talking is hugely underestimated; when we really start loo…

Have you ever had a day when nothing seems to go right? You feel overwhelmed by the day ahead, wondering how you will get all your tasks or work comp…

There’s a song from the sixties entitled ‘We’re All Going On A Summer Holiday’.  What comes to your mind when you think of the phrase ‘summer holiday…

What kind of response do we need from those close to us when we find ourselves getting upset over something ‘irrational’? Our upset or anger may be…

The Office for National Statistics [ONS} revealed at the start of the year that there was a 5% increase in the divorce rate. If we translate this int…

Traumatic loss and complicated grief often require meaningful purpose and resilience. Effective therapy supports individual meaning making processes.

Imagine that from the earliest you can remember you knew you were different. You wanted to play with toys that children of the other sex played with.…

From the moment you find out that you are pregnant, intense desires can be evoked to love and nurture your baby and to protect it from harmful experi…

Watching the achievements of the amazing young athletes at the Olympics the last few days has led me to think about the messages we give and receive…