“Only Girls Cry!” Are you a man who thinks it’s weak to cry? Do you find yourself bottling things up until you explode at the traffic warden? Well,…

In the last ten years, the use of electronic communication devices has boomed. Most of us have mobile phones and the majority have smartphones. The u…

Anxiety can affect anyone, at any stage of their lives; the awkward adolescent troubled by Social Anxiety Disorder; the father traumatised by a road…

Feeling lonely and being alone are not the same things. A lot of people suffer from loneliness, maybe because they live on their own and wish for a c…

Last month I wrote about The Change in the lives of women. We easily forget that men too go through a midlife change. We call it the Midlife-Crisis,…

Sleep is something that we all have in common. The reasons that we sleep, the purpose and mechanisms are only now becoming clearer and many throughou…

With ever increasing house prices and frozen mortgage provision more children are now seeking to return home, with recent statistics revealing that o…

A quick glance through newspapers and online shows that search for happiness is top of the news agenda. Whereas questions like: What does life mean?…

When do we need to forgive? When do we need to ask for forgiveness? Are some things unforgivable? Thinking about forgiveness I realise what a comple…

1) The Dating Process.  Once you’ve decided you would like to venture out into the world of dating again and you feel sufficiently healed (yet are n…

I have been a counselling psychologist in SE England for 15 years and among my clients there are many mothers with small children.  A phenomenon that…

All love relationships are going to involve conflict at some point. That’s because conflict occurs when someone’s needs are not being met. Even in th…