I sometimes think that every person who pursues a career in psychotherapy must have had a parent with a narcissistic personality. How else could our…

If there is someone with narcissistic personality disorder in your life, and especially if they are a family member, their behaviour can have a big i…

How can children learn to feel more confident about themselves and believe that they can have an effect on the world? How can children be more assert…

When I was growing up I had two friends - I'll call them John and Paul. While my family life had boundaries and structure, both John and Paul's seeme…

It's that time again where the school summer term ends. Our young people have probably worked hard to harness great exam results with a view to atten…

Research by people such as John Bowlby [et al] suggests that we learn about relationships from birth, but that may not necessarily be the case. Is it…

In parental counselling, quite a large number of parents tend to ask the question: 'How can I help my child with anxiety?'. Being a parent and battli…

It’s hard to talk about the effects of growing up with parental addiction despite much more evidence showing us the long-term impact this can have. T…

Why do teenagers seem to lead such self-centred and disorganised lives and yet cannot seem to ask for help from caring adults? Here we shed some ligh…

In these times when being a single mum is no longer unusual or frowned upon in the same way as it once was, it can be easy to forget that not everyon…

Bullying and social aggression are issues that some of us who have kids, feel quite passionate about because they come up time and time again at scho…

It is twenty-seven years since the Medical Research Council (MRC) published its research demonstrating that supplementing the diets of women before a…