The long term affects of child sexual abuse can be so pervasive that it can be difficult to establish exactly how the abuse affected you. It can perm…

Child sexual abuse encompasses a wide range of sexual behaviour, it involves children or adolescents in sexual activities with an adult or any person…

Some counsellors and therapists pay special attention to the actual words used by their clients. Current fashions focus on behaviour, attitudes and o…

After a road accident it is not unusual for people to experience feelings of anxiety, tearfulness, short-temper, and have difficulties sleeping.  The…

A new and quite extraordinary, indeed unprecedented, scientific study of cyclothymia has shown that it can be cured using a powerful combination of t…

Q. What are the main psychological effects of childhood sexual abuse? A. This depends very much on the type and duration of the abuse. Some of the f…

Today I want to talk about emotional mugging. Say what? Right…it looks a bit like this. On a recent weekend, I had planned to head out to gorgeous…

Experiencing the loss of a pet can be as heartbreaking as losing a family member. Learn about grief stages and find support to heal.

When a partner has an affair, it is difficult to believe that the relationship isn’t over. For most men or women, betrayal is a bitter pill to swal…

Many people find themselves at some time in their life looking after a relative or friend who is elderly or has physical or mental health problems. …

In the practice of ‘Feeding Your Demons’ negative emotions, fears, illness and self defeating patterns are befriended and transformed. It is a proces…

Often couples seek counselling because of an accumulation of painful experiences between them that have led to it becoming impossible for them to com…