I'm going to explore how we have coped without our audience in the pandemic, for both professional and amateur performers. The performing arts have s…

Have you ever wondered why you behave in certain ways? Why you may have certain ideas or thoughts throughout your life? As a therapist I know how und…

Everyone can feel they have made a mistake but when you feel that you are a mistake, you are experiencing shame. It is a pervasive and destructive em…

Inability to concentrate, being at a loss of what to do, procrastination, lethargy, keeping a grudge etc, these are just a few of the complex psychol…

When scrolling on social media, you’ve probably read a plethora of ‘be kind to yourself’ quotes, maybe engaging fleetingly with this idea. But it’s p…

How often do you talk to yourself?  I guess that at least some of the time, it goes something like this: That was ridiculous! What are you doing?…

I recently read a poem by Henry Vaughan called The Retreat. A poem about the awareness that one can have about the loss of innocence in childhood and…

Feeling bad is often what brings many adults or young people into the counselling room. Shame is often connected with a feeling of a deeper, constant…

You may never have stopped to question the concept of ‘feeling fat’, rather taking it at face value and assuming that your body is to blame.  Frequen…

How true is this simple statement by Jim Kwick, "If you fight for your limitations, you get to keep them." We probably all know that we like to stay…

There’s nothing wrong with having a ‘nice’ or ’friendly’ character, but constantly preventing yourself from ‘upsetting the apple cart' by burying you…

Many of us will remember a relationship from our past which makes us cringe in disbelief: one where we were so keen for the person we were dating to…