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…

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…