This is a question that I am often asked. Many couples make love very infrequently but do not have the language or confidence to make any changes. I…

How many times has a person with drug or alcohol problems heard “What do you keep doing this for?” To other people, especially those close to that in…

Unsure if you need counselling? Discover common signs of dissatisfaction and the benefits of talking to a counsellor.

A counsellor explores how to approach a conversation with sensitive people.

What are the impacts of redundancy? When people are faced with redundancy there are two obvious impacts of financial concerns (debt) and anxiety abou…

A counsellor looks at the link between childhood trauma and offending later in life.

A therapist explores how early experience can shape our needs and attachment styles in adult life

From the 1930s onwards psychoanalysis has seen a paradigmatic shift away from Freudian drive theory towards a relational perspective. The work of Fai…

Introduction Power is an implicit thread in the discourses that inform many aspects of our social and political life. Power relations are rarely equa…

There has been very little research on how the concept of emotional intelligence could relate to some of the overarching issues currently debated in…

In Client-Centred Therapy (Rogers 1951) and On Becoming a Person (Rogers 1961) Rogers refers in the process of personality change to a move from rigi…

Struggling with anxiety? In this article, we explore how therapy can help.