The statistics keep showing us just how unhappy young people are today. The Princes Trust Macquarie Youth Index recently published its annual survey…

Family should be supportive, caring, loving, unconditional and there when you need them. However, for some families there can be some, or none of the…

As we approach the months of revision and testing, it is easy for young people and parents to get caught up in the near hysteria that can surround GC…

What is a mother to the unborn child, to the new born baby, to the growing child? What is a mother to the grown-up man or woman? A mother is the whol…

Do you have a teenager in the final year of school? Have you noticed changes in their personality or recent behaviour? If the answer is yes, then yo…

The second term of university is about to begin, and parents of these young adults may start to have some mixed feelings about their children going b…

Issues with anger is one of the main reasons children are referred to therapy. With anger, a good starting point is to focus on bodily sensation - wh…

The website boardingschoolsurvivors.co.uk suggests that adults who were not able to cope with the shock and isolation of being sent away from home at…

This week, I will be joining the International Federation for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus (IF) in their global effort to raise awareness to all wo…

When looking at our childhoods we can often miss pivotal clues as to how emotional neglect can contribute to later difficulties in adult life. As a s…

If you remember or have seen the Harry Enfield ‘Kevin’ sketch (available on youtube.com) where his character Kevin, turns from a polite tween into a…

We all have past experiences which create the adults we are today. Our past is important, as the dots from the past joins the dots in the present and…