Relationships heal. In counselling healing takes place in the relationship between counsellor and client. In Couples Counselling the potential for he…

Mindfulness has attracted increasing attention recently as an approach to stress reduction and serenity. I’m currently participating in the 8 week Mi…

Britain's leading Mental Health Charity, Mind, suggest that mental wellbeing is not something that we either do or do not have, but is something we a…

Co-dependency can be described as a relationship addiction. In this type of relationship compulsive care-taking and a need to please or control other…

Good, Thomson and Braithwaite (2005) conducted an extensive review on men, masculinity and considerations for psychological treatment, they point to…

Why do we fall in and out of love.  Most couples may find themselves at some time in their relationship struggling with anger, shock, despair and sa…

In order to move on when we have been involved in an upsetting experience with someone else, we need to get rid of the 'toxic' feelings that the expe…

Sorry ladies, Antonio Banderas isn’t popping round for tea but as you’ll read later on, our swashbuckling hero can really help you gain control over…

For many survivors, counselling may be the first time they have ever disclosed the abuse. They may have been locked into silence for years or even de…

As part of a collection of creative work, I am hoping to demonstrate human emotional difficulties and where counselling can help. This poem aims to…

"How many times have I told you to stop talking in class?""How many steps to school do I take avoiding the lines of the paving stones?""How many time…

You may have heard a lot about a therapy called “CBT” but just what is it and how can it help you?A common goal of all psychotherapies is to help peo…