Addiction specialist, Luke Worsfold, explains how DBT can be a useful approach in addiction recovery.

Have you spent several years trying to change a behaviour or thought pattern? How you feel or what you believe? How many books do you have on your sh…

There are numerous leaflets and strategies on sleep that I have come across on my journey to become a counsellor/psychotherapist, and what I have com…

Being in control, being controlling, taking control, being out of control… Control seems to be another of those words that takes on a meaning which c…

Do therapists love their clients? Carl Rogers talked about unconditional positive regard. We hear words like compassion and empathy. I wonder why we…

Pain is unavoidable. No matter how hard we try we really cannot escape death, illness and loss. Or even little things, rejection, things not going t…

I once worked with a boss who would regularly bring his young daughter to work with him. She was about 18 months at the time (if I remember correctly…

Why do we come to therapy? Sometimes, when we feel bad or when we notice how our anxiety or depression stops us from enjoying life. When we see the…

The rewind technique is a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), phobias, and anxiety. For many years, severe anxiety-based conditions…

Guilt and shame may seem similar, but they are actually very different. Guilt is a feeling about a behaviour, whereas shame is a feeling about our ve…

I’ve been reflecting recently about how we sometimes dismiss a low mood, depression, anxiety or other symptoms as just 'life', and think that we just…

Growing up with a narcissistic parent is not only traumatic in nature, but also debilitating and detrimental. As a child growing up with a parent li…