Domestic abuse cuts across all class and culture, no-one is immune. It is estimated that one in three women will experience domestic abuse in their l…

Emotionally abusive parents are manipulative, cunning and toxic. Brilliant impersonators, these narcissistic fakes create a world of 'alternative fac…

When it comes to leaving an abusive partner, everybody will easily judge "just leave him, it isn't worth staying. He is who he is, you deserve a norm…

The government definition of domestic violence and abuse is: ‘any incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive, threatening behaviour,…

Working with victims of domestic violence, I've heard some very bad cases of women being physically hurt by their partners. Most of them knew from be…

It's easy to think of abuse as physical or sexual, but verbal abuse is more prevalent and can be just as traumatic. Many verbal abusers are masters a…

People who identify as LGB or trans* are at more of a risk of developing anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, self-harm and other mental health is…

What is inner child therapy and how can it help?

The news media in the UK are currently full of revelations about child sexual abuse in the world of football. Many men in their forties and fifties a…

This may be stating the obvious, but one of the most effective pathways into recovery from a string of therapeutic presentations is working on emotio…

The talented footballer, Andy Woodward, has courageously disclosed his ordeal at the hands of his football coach. Since then, Paul Stewart, David Whi…

Domestic violence (DV) is power that is misused by an adult in a relationship to control another; leading to fear through physical violence and other…