Feeling overwhelmed in social situations? Counsellor Ashlie Smith shares 6 tips to calm your social anxiety.

Anxiety is a basic human emotion. We all have the capability of experiencing this emotion. Anxiety helps us to deal with the dangers in the world. An…

Counsellors working with individuals and groups to enable creative change are often very familiar with the cycle of experience we all go through when…

1. Live in the here and now Instead of continually rehashing the past or endlessly planning your future, set time aside each day to focus on what’s…

Anxiety is much more than what goes on in your head. You may find this difficult to believe. You may not always be aware of it, but the symptoms of a…

1. I feel, but I am not the feelingsAnxiety, anger, and other uncomfortable feelings can be tremendously uncomfortable. The bodily response is very s…

Anxious people often believe that they should exert a degree of control over their feelings of uneasiness. One might say that this (usually unarticul…

Something I often hear from clients is a confusion between self-care and selfishness. There seems to be a lot of uncertainty about these two very dif…

The first two to three years of having your first child can go by in a blur. Sleepless nights, teething, toddlerhood, juggling parenthood with day to…

I am a therapist and on occasions I have panic attacks. In fact, I had one yesterday. There. I've said it. There seems to be some illogical assumpt…

We are in many ways governed through a process of socialisation. Our ideas of who we are and who we should be are heavily influenced by socio-cultura…

“It’s just talking!” Grant shouted at his counsellor. He is a 35-year-old computer programmer, logical and rational in the extreme. He had first gone…