Bear in mind the fact that there are also strong physiological processes present in patients when treating stress/anxiety using a cognitive behaviour…

Counsellor Alison Peebles explains the benefits of art therapy, particularly for those with depression, anxiety or experiencing stress.

Performance Anxiety (PA) sufferers engage in common thinking traps that lead to emotional distress and self-focused attention (concentration turning…

Hitting a crisis point in your life can be scary. The idea of counselling can be a daunting one, often surrounded by the mystery of what to expect.…

People grapple with anxiety, try to shut it away, they may come to despise it, or surrender to it in miserable OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). B…

Children who have experienced little or no love and care in childhood owing to their parents unhappy relationship and inability to cope with their ow…

I have been thinking a lot recently about the situation children find themselves in when their parents have separated and they spend time with both M…

The keys to parenting teenagers - perhaps the most difficult time in our lives as parents - are to listen, respect their views, and give emotional lo…

When it comes to getting children off to sleep our grandparents knew what they were doing. We do not often here tales of difficulty relating to sleep…

There is much written about anxiety attacks (proper name: panic attacks). Some is helpful, some not, the latter because it’s either commercially moti…

Hyperventilation When we over-breathe we take in too much oxygen and we breathe out too much carbon dioxide (CO2). We need CO2 to absorb oxygen into…

Brain structure - old and new brain parts In simplistic terms, the brain is made up of ‘old’ and ‘new’ parts. The ‘old brain’ part, our primitive re…