If what we do in the hour before sleep lays a blueprint for how we sleep, how are you preparing your brain for slumber? Is what you are doing saying,…

New Year resolutions are the ideal opportunity for personal reinvention. Whether they concern things to give up (like an addiction) or acquiring new…

Burnout hurts. "Burnout won’t happen to me, though. I look after myself. Or will it?" When I experienced burnout, combined with vicarious trauma, it…

One of the reasons our anxiety or stress can often spiral out of control is because we confuse the probability of something happening with the possib…

When so much is happening in your life and everything is feeling like it’s out of control, one way to put this control back in your life is to have a…

Autumn has always been my favourite season: vibrant colours, bonfire smells and the return of woolly jumpers and boots. But this year it has felt har…

We are now into the eighth month of the COVID-19 global storm. The world is presently full of unknowns, where we are literally being sneezed on by th…

Have you noticed what is going on around you at present? We are finding what is happening around us very stressful, not just what is happening with t…

Are the latest lockdown restrictions limiting face-to-face counselling appointments for you?  Telephone counselling might not appeal to you and onlin…

With another lockdown starting, there is another possible wave of panic, fear, depression and mental health struggles coming. Although we cannot avoi…

If we had to pick a word that described the last seven months, we’d be hard pushed to think of a better one than 'overwhelming', 'uncertain' might co…

Winter can be a difficult time for many people and this affects our mood and our physical health. But there are ways to improve our circumstances thr…