Stress and Anxiety Many of us suffer from stress and anxiety. Some stress can be useful, to make us achieve and sometimes to keep us safe, but somet…

Mental illness is a serious medical condition and can strike anybody at anytime regardless of race, age, gender or class. It truly knows no bounds an…

Coping When Children Leave Home At this time of year many young people are leaving the family to start their university adventure, sometimes a long…

What is depression? Depression can affect any type of person at any stage of life. You could be introverted or extroverted, young or old, rich or po…

Mental health charity MIND ran a poster campaign some years ago using the statistic 1 in 4 people will experience a mental health problem at some poi…

Part of the human condition is to feel anxious at times in our lives. Indeed, at times that survival mechanism that puts our senses on high alert can…

Mild and Moderate Depression from a PsychologicalPerspective. All too frequently, clients come to therapy in a state of distress, complaining of fee…

Anxiety can be debilitating, interfering not just through physical symptoms but also by creating the mental torture that can accompany an imagined fr…

It’s so hard to describe what deep shame feels like. It feels so painful to even talk about the feelings of shame that words dry up; the body feels h…

A lot is written at this time of year about common difficulties encountered when trying to re-adjust to work life and routine after a summer holiday.…

Worrying about stuff is a normal part of everyday life. Most of us have a constant stream of background noise going on in our heads... Did I remem…

As science is helping us understand more about how our brains work, we are discovering how certain anxious and traumatic memories can get trapped in…