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Everyone worries about matters from time to time. Worry can be defined as a succession of anxiety-laden negative thoughts focused towards problem sol…

According to research recently published in health journal The Lancet, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is more successful than standard care when…

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Sherry Turkle the MIT technologist and psychotherapist has used the term Perfect Storm to describe the time we are living in with technology, social…

Modern relationships are hard work and perhaps that is why so many of us have relationship problems. Many articles will talk about the importance of…

There are some people who love the prospect of change; they say it excites them and they seem comfortable with the unfamiliarity of what comes next,…

As a psychosexual therapist I often deliver sexuality and sexual education workshops to the wider public. I have delivered many training days to male…

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With as many as one in four being affected by mental health problems, it can hardly come as a surprise that mental health can have an impact on the h…

October marks National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, during which not-for-profit organisations, health-conscious companies and government and local…

Do you feel that you are useless, valueless, weak, feeble, powerless or trapped - essentially bad? If you do experience any of these feelings or some…